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Papa Johns International (PZZA) Return on Invested Capital (2016 - 2025)

Papa Johns International has reported Return on Invested Capital over the past 17 years, most recently at 0.14% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Invested Capital at 0.14% for Q4 2025, up 15.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.14% (up 15.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.15%, up 14.0%.
  • Return on Invested Capital for Q4 2025 was 0.14% at Papa Johns International, up from 0.16% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Invested Capital for PZZA hit a ceiling of 0.14% in Q4 2025 and a floor of 0.94% in Q3 2021.
  • Median Return on Invested Capital over the past 5 years was 0.32% (2024), compared with a mean of 0.39%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Invested Capital: tumbled -73bps in 2021 and later surged 58bps in 2022.
  • Papa Johns International's Return on Invested Capital stood at 0.9% in 2021, then skyrocketed by 60bps to 0.36% in 2022, then increased by 23bps to 0.27% in 2023, then fell by -6bps to 0.29% in 2024, then surged by 51bps to 0.14% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Invested Capital were 0.14% (Q4 2025), 0.16% (Q3 2025), and 0.34% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.