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Nabors Industries (NBR) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

Nabors Industries has reported Return on Capital Employed over the past 16 years, most recently at 0.36% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Capital Employed at 0.36% for Q4 2025, up 8.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.36% (up 8.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.02%, changed.
  • Return on Capital Employed for Q4 2025 was 0.36% at Nabors Industries, down from 0.32% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Capital Employed for NBR hit a ceiling of 0.08% in Q1 2021 and a floor of 0.46% in Q4 2022.
  • Median Return on Capital Employed over the past 5 years was 0.4% (2022), compared with a mean of 0.38%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Capital Employed: plummeted -32bps in 2022 and later increased 11bps in 2025.
  • Nabors Industries' Return on Capital Employed stood at 0.37% in 2021, then dropped by -26bps to 0.46% in 2022, then grew by 4bps to 0.45% in 2023, then increased by 1bps to 0.44% in 2024, then increased by 18bps to 0.36% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Capital Employed were 0.36% (Q4 2025), 0.32% (Q3 2025), and 0.4% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.