Growth Metrics

Sweetgreen (SG) Return on Invested Capital (2021 - 2025)

Sweetgreen's Return on Invested Capital history spans 5 years, with the latest figure at 0.37% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Invested Capital fell 16.0% year-over-year to 0.37%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.37%, down 16.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.35%, 14.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Invested Capital for Q4 2025 was 0.37% at Sweetgreen, down from 0.3% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Invested Capital topped out at 0.2% in Q3 2024 and bottomed at 0.83% in Q4 2021.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Invested Capital is 0.28% (2022), against an average of 0.31%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Return on Invested Capital soared 47bps in 2022 before it dropped -16bps in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Invested Capital shows it stood at 0.83% in 2021, then surged by 57bps to 0.36% in 2022, then grew by 30bps to 0.25% in 2023, then rose by 17bps to 0.21% in 2024, then crashed by -79bps to 0.37% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for SG's Return on Invested Capital are 0.37% (Q4 2025), 0.3% (Q3 2025), and 0.25% (Q2 2025).