Urban One (UONE) Return on Capital Employed (2011 - 2025)
Urban One (UONE) posted Return on Capital Employed of 29.33% for Q4 2025, down 58.64% on a QoQ basis from 18.49% in Q3 2025, and down 2033.0% year-over-year from 1.52% in Q4 2024.
Urban One (UONE) Return on Capital Employed (2011 - 2025) Analysis & Trends
Urban One's Return on Capital Employed history runs 15 years deep, the most recent figure standing at 29.33% for Q4 2025.
- Quarterly Return on Capital Employed fell 2033.0% year-over-year to 29.33% in Q4 2025, while the trailing twelve-month figure through Dec 2025 was 29.33% (down 2033.0% YoY) and the FY2025 annual result came in at 24.63%, down 1679.0% from the prior year.
- Return on Capital Employed was 29.33% for Q4 2025 at Urban One, down from 18.49% in the prior quarter.
- Across five years, Return on Capital Employed topped out at 10.76% in Q3 2021 and bottomed at 29.33% in Q4 2025.
- A 5-year average of 1.68% and a median of 0.82% in 2023 frame the typical range for Return on Capital Employed.
- Annual changes were most pronounced in 2021 — Return on Capital Employed soared 992 bps — and 2025, when it plunged 2033 bps.
- Urban One's Return on Capital Employed stood at 8.88% in 2021, then retreated by 23 bps to 6.81% in 2022, then plunged by 143 bps to 2.95% in 2023, then tumbled by 205 bps to 9.0% in 2024, then tumbled by 226 bps to 29.33% in 2025.
- Business Quant data shows UONE's Return on Capital Employed at 29.33% in Q4 2025, 18.49% in Q3 2025, and 20.32% in Q2 2025.
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Historic Data
Download Data| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Dec 31, 2025 | -29.33% |
| Sep 30, 2025 | -18.49% |
| Jun 30, 2025 | -20.32% |
| Mar 31, 2025 | -10.42% |
| Dec 31, 2024 | -9.00% |
| Sep 30, 2024 | -7.52% |
| Jun 30, 2024 | -10.08% |
| Mar 31, 2024 | -2.54% |
| Dec 31, 2023 | -2.95% |
| Sep 30, 2023 | -2.40% |
| Jun 30, 2023 | 4.04% |
| Mar 31, 2023 | 5.22% |
| Dec 31, 2022 | 6.81% |
| Sep 30, 2022 | 8.19% |
| Jun 30, 2022 | 9.36% |
| Mar 31, 2022 | 10.34% |
| Dec 31, 2021 | 8.88% |
| Sep 30, 2021 | 10.76% |
| Jun 30, 2021 | 8.64% |
| Mar 31, 2021 | 7.32% |