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Plains All American Pipeline (PAA) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

Plains All American Pipeline (PAA) has 17 years of Return on Capital Employed data on record, last reported at 0.06% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Capital Employed rose 2.0% year-over-year to 0.06%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.06%, up 2.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.06%, 1.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Capital Employed reached 0.06% in Q4 2025 per PAA's latest filing, up from 0.05% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Capital Employed topped out at 0.08% in Q3 2022 and bottomed at 0.01% in Q3 2021.
  • Average Return on Capital Employed over 5 years is 0.05%, with a median of 0.05% recorded in 2024.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Capital Employed: grew 16bps in 2021, then fell -4bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Capital Employed shows it stood at 0.04% in 2021, then soared by 41bps to 0.06% in 2022, then dropped by -6bps to 0.06% in 2023, then dropped by -29bps to 0.04% in 2024, then surged by 49bps to 0.06% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Return on Capital Employed were 0.06% in Q4 2025, 0.05% in Q3 2025, and 0.03% in Q2 2025.