Growth Metrics

Sweetgreen (SG) Return on Capital Employed (2022 - 2025)

Sweetgreen's Return on Capital Employed history spans 4 years, with the latest figure at 0.17% for Q3 2025.

  • For Q3 2025, Return on Capital Employed fell 5.0% year-over-year to 0.17%; the TTM value through Sep 2025 reached 0.17%, down 5.0%, while the annual FY2024 figure was 0.13%, 3.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Capital Employed for Q3 2025 was 0.17% at Sweetgreen, down from 0.15% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Capital Employed topped out at 0.12% in Q3 2024 and bottomed at 0.29% in Q3 2022.
  • The 4-year median for Return on Capital Employed is 0.17% (2025), against an average of 0.19%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Return on Capital Employed grew 11bps in 2023 before it dropped -5bps in 2025.
  • A 4-year view of Return on Capital Employed shows it stood at 0.27% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 42bps to 0.16% in 2023, then grew by 18bps to 0.13% in 2024, then plummeted by -33bps to 0.17% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for SG's Return on Capital Employed are 0.17% (Q3 2025), 0.15% (Q2 2025), and 0.13% (Q1 2025).