Microsoft (MSFT) Return on Invested Capital (2009 - 2026)

Microsoft has disclosed Return on Invested Capital across 18 years of filings, most recently posting 0.0% for Q1 2026.

• Return on Invested Capital for Q1 2026 came in at 0.0%, changed 0.0% year-over-year; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 was 0.0% (changed 0.0% YoY), and the FY2025 annual result was 0.01%, changed 0.0% from the prior year.
• Return on Invested Capital came in at 0.0% for Q1 2026 at Microsoft, down from 0.01% in the prior quarter.
• In the past five years, Return on Invested Capital ranged from a high of 1.75% in Q3 2022 to a low of 0.36% in Q4 2022.
• The 5-year median for Return on Invested Capital is 0.01% (2024), against an average of 0.14%.
• Across the five-year window, Return on Invested Capital jumped 161 bps in 2022 and tumbled 175 bps in 2023, its largest moves.
• Microsoft's Return on Invested Capital stood at 0.36% in 2022, then surged by 104 bps to 0.01% in 2023, then jumped by 2611 bps to 0.39% in 2024, then tumbled by 97 bps to 0.01% in 2025, then slumped by 55 bps to 0.0% in 2026.
• The last three Return on Invested Capital figures came in at 0.0% (Q1 2026), 0.01% (Q4 2025), and 0.0% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.