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Occidental Petroleum (OXY) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

Occidental Petroleum (OXY) has disclosed Return on Capital Employed for 17 consecutive years, with 0.21% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Capital Employed changed 0.0% to 0.21% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.21%, a 0.0% change, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.2%, down 2.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Capital Employed was 0.21% for Q4 2025 at Occidental Petroleum, down from 0.23% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 0.47% in Q3 2022 to a low of 0.2% in Q1 2021.
  • A 5-year average of 0.3% and a median of 0.25% in 2023 define the central range for Return on Capital Employed.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Capital Employed: increased 20bps in 2022, then decreased -22bps in 2024.
  • Occidental Petroleum's Return on Capital Employed stood at 0.28% in 2021, then surged by 56bps to 0.44% in 2022, then crashed by -43bps to 0.25% in 2023, then dropped by -17bps to 0.21% in 2024, then dropped by -2bps to 0.21% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for OXY's Return on Capital Employed are 0.21% (Q4 2025), 0.23% (Q3 2025), and 0.21% (Q2 2025).