Transalta (TAC) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)
Transalta (TAC) posted Return on Capital Employed of 8.09% for Q4 2025, down 3.43% on a QoQ basis from 8.38% in Q3 2025, and down 894.0% year-over-year from 1.02% in Q4 2024.
Transalta (TAC) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025) Analysis & Trends
Transalta's Return on Capital Employed history runs 10 years deep, the most recent figure standing at 8.09% for Q4 2025.
- Quarterly Return on Capital Employed fell 894.0% year-over-year to 8.09% in Q4 2025, while the trailing twelve-month figure through Dec 2025 was 8.09% (down 894.0% YoY) and the FY2025 annual result came in at 1.91%, down 705.0% from the prior year.
- Return on Capital Employed was 8.09% for Q4 2025 at Transalta, down from 8.38% in the prior quarter.
- Across five years, Return on Capital Employed topped out at 29.92% in Q4 2023 and bottomed at 2.22% in Q4 2021.
- A 5-year average of 10.66% and a median of 9.3% in 2022 frame the typical range for Return on Capital Employed.
- Annual changes were most pronounced in 2023 — Return on Capital Employed jumped 2062 bps — and 2024, when it tumbled 1289 bps.
- Transalta's Return on Capital Employed stood at 2.22% in 2021, then jumped by 518 bps to 9.3% in 2022, then jumped by 222 bps to 29.92% in 2023, then plunged by 43 bps to 17.03% in 2024, then plunged by 52 bps to 8.09% in 2025.
- Business Quant data shows TAC's Return on Capital Employed at 8.09% in Q4 2025, 8.38% in Q3 2025, and 9.38% in Q2 2025.
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Historic Data
Download Data| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Dec 31, 2025 | 8.09% |
| Sep 30, 2025 | 8.38% |
| Jun 30, 2025 | 9.38% |
| Mar 31, 2025 | 14.16% |
| Dec 31, 2024 | 17.03% |
| Dec 31, 2023 | 29.92% |
| Dec 31, 2022 | 9.30% |
| Mar 31, 2022 | 1.90% |
| Dec 31, 2021 | -2.22% |
| Dec 31, 2020 | 1.75% |
| Dec 31, 2019 | 5.75% |
| Dec 31, 2018 | 4.22% |
| Dec 31, 2017 | 3.48% |
| Dec 31, 2016 | 7.94% |