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Starbucks (SBUX) Return on Invested Capital (2016 - 2025)

Starbucks (SBUX) has disclosed Return on Invested Capital for 17 consecutive years, with 0.27% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Invested Capital fell 376.0% to 0.27% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.27%, a 376.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 2.83%, up 230.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Invested Capital was 0.27% for Q4 2025 at Starbucks, down from 0.41% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Invested Capital ranged from a high of 43.24% in Q3 2024 to a low of 8.04% in Q2 2022.
  • A 5-year average of 2.27% and a median of 0.49% in 2023 define the central range for Return on Invested Capital.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Invested Capital: surged 4262bps in 2024, then crashed -4283bps in 2025.
  • Starbucks' Return on Invested Capital stood at 0.18% in 2021, then tumbled by -1689bps to 3.13% in 2022, then soared by 122bps to 0.69% in 2023, then skyrocketed by 483bps to 4.03% in 2024, then plummeted by -93bps to 0.27% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for SBUX's Return on Invested Capital are 0.27% (Q4 2025), 0.41% (Q3 2025), and 0.23% (Q2 2025).