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Microsoft (MSFT) Return on Invested Capital (2016 - 2025)

Microsoft's Return on Invested Capital history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 0.64% for Q3 2025.

  • For Q3 2025, Return on Invested Capital fell 62.0% year-over-year to 0.64%; the TTM value through Sep 2025 reached 0.64%, down 62.0%, while the annual FY2024 figure was 0.39%, 29.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Invested Capital for Q3 2025 was 0.64% at Microsoft, up from 0.45% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Invested Capital topped out at 22.37% in Q3 2022 and bottomed at 175.35% in Q4 2023.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Invested Capital is 0.74% (2021), against an average of 8.62%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Return on Invested Capital crashed -18815bps in 2023 before it soared 17580bps in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Invested Capital shows it stood at 1.92% in 2021, then skyrocketed by 567bps to 12.8% in 2022, then crashed by -1470bps to 175.35% in 2023, then soared by 100bps to 0.45% in 2024, then surged by 41bps to 0.64% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for MSFT's Return on Invested Capital are 0.64% (Q3 2025), 0.45% (Q4 2024), and 1.26% (Q3 2024).