SEMrush Holdings (SEMR) Return on Capital Employed (2021 - 2025)
SEMrush Holdings posted quarterly Return on Capital Employed of 7.65% for Q4 2025, down 1069.0% year-on-year from 0.79% in Q4 2024, and down 216.31% on a QoQ basis from 2.42% in Q3 2025.
SEMrush Holdings (SEMR) has 5 years of Return on Capital Employed data on file, last reported at 7.65% in Q4 2025.
- For the quarter ending Q4 2025, Return on Capital Employed fell 1069.0% year-over-year to 7.65%; the trailing twelve-month figure through Dec 2025 stood at 7.65% (down 1069.0% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was 8.5%, down 1186.0% from the prior year.
- Return on Capital Employed for Q4 2025 stood at 7.65%, down from 2.42% in the prior quarter.
- Across five years, Return on Capital Employed topped out at 4.2% in Q2 2024 and bottomed at 21.83% in Q1 2023.
- The 5-year median for Return on Capital Employed is 2.68% (2025), against an average of 4.81%.
- The widest annual swing landed in 2023, when Return on Capital Employed plunged 1889 bps; it then jumped 2376 bps in 2024.
- A 5-year view of Return on Capital Employed shows it stood at 1.33% in 2021, then tumbled by 1221 bps to 17.53% in 2022, then jumped by 80 bps to 3.45% in 2023, then surged by 188 bps to 3.04% in 2024, then sank by 352 bps to 7.65% in 2025.
- The last three Return on Capital Employed figures came in at 7.65% (Q4 2025), 2.42% (Q3 2025), and 0.33% (Q2 2025), per Business Quant data.
Peer Comparison
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sap Se | 253.17 Bn | 235.20 Bn | 8.16 Bn | 40.19% |
| 2 | Salesforce | 171.07 Bn | 161.50 Bn | 8.69 Bn | 12.51% |
| 3 | Uber Technologies | 147.39 Bn | 146.35 Bn | 11.88 Bn | 12.81% |
| 4 | Shopify | 134.25 Bn | 128.50 Bn | 1.55 Bn | 12.40% |
| 5 | ServiceNow | 105.72 Bn | 100.54 Bn | 2.83 Bn | 12.32% |
| 6 | Cadence Design Systems | 101.64 Bn | 100.23 Bn | 1.26 Bn | 17.43% |
| 7 | Adobe | 100.35 Bn | 93.46 Bn | 5.73 Bn | 49.21% |
| 8 | Automatic Data Processing | 90.91 Bn | 87.68 Bn | 2.87 Bn | -20.99% |
| 9 | Intuit | 88.30 Bn | 81.52 Bn | 6.77 Bn | 23.43% |
| 10 | SEMrush Holdings | 1.78 Bn | 1.52 Bn | 94.55 Mn | -7.65% |
Historic Data
Download Data| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Dec 31, 2025 | -7.65% |
| Sep 30, 2025 | -2.42% |
| Jun 30, 2025 | -0.33% |
| Mar 31, 2025 | 2.44% |
| Dec 31, 2024 | 3.04% |
| Sep 30, 2024 | 3.49% |
| Jun 30, 2024 | 4.20% |
| Mar 31, 2024 | 1.94% |
| Dec 31, 2023 | -3.45% |
| Sep 30, 2023 | -12.24% |
| Jun 30, 2023 | -18.76% |
| Mar 31, 2023 | -21.83% |
| Dec 31, 2022 | -17.53% |
| Sep 30, 2022 | -11.38% |
| Jun 30, 2022 | -6.65% |
| Mar 31, 2022 | -2.94% |
| Dec 31, 2021 | -1.33% |
| Sep 30, 2021 | -0.32% |
| Jun 30, 2021 | -0.63% |
| Mar 31, 2021 | -3.86% |