Growth Metrics

System1 (SST) Return on Capital Employed (2021 - 2025)

System1's Return on Capital Employed history spans 5 years, with the latest figure at 0.25% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Capital Employed fell 1.0% year-over-year to 0.25%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.25%, down 1.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.22%, 1.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Capital Employed for Q4 2025 was 0.25% at System1, down from 0.19% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Capital Employed topped out at 0.46% in Q4 2021 and bottomed at 0.61% in Q3 2023.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Capital Employed is 0.22% (2025), against an average of 0.2%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Return on Capital Employed crashed -90bps in 2022 before it increased 23bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Capital Employed shows it stood at 0.46% in 2021, then plummeted by -196bps to 0.44% in 2022, then surged by 51bps to 0.21% in 2023, then fell by -14bps to 0.24% in 2024, then fell by -3bps to 0.25% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for SST's Return on Capital Employed are 0.25% (Q4 2025), 0.19% (Q3 2025), and 0.21% (Q2 2025).