Vale (VALE) Return on Invested Capital (2009 - 2025)

Vale has reported Return on Invested Capital for 17 years, with the latest figure at 0.0% in Q4 2025.

• Quarterly Return on Invested Capital fell 1.0% year-over-year to 0.0% in Q4 2025, while the trailing twelve-month figure through Dec 2025 was 0.0% (down 1.0% YoY) and the FY2023 annual result came in at 1.36%, up 123.0% from the prior year.
• Return on Invested Capital declined to 0.0% in Q4 2025 per VALE's latest filing, from 0.0% in the prior quarter.
• Over five years, Return on Invested Capital peaked at 0.02% in Q3 2021 and troughed at 0.0% in Q4 2025.
• A 5-year average of 0.01% and a median of 0.01% in 2023 frame the typical range for Return on Invested Capital.
• The sharpest annual moves came in 2021 and 2022: Return on Invested Capital rose 1 bps in 2021, then decreased 1 bps in 2022.
• Over 5 years, Return on Invested Capital stood at 0.01% in 2021, then retreated by 9 bps to 0.01% in 2022, then increased by 10 bps to 0.01% in 2023, then sank by 38 bps to 0.01% in 2024, then slumped by 86 bps to 0.0% in 2025.
• According to Business Quant data, Return on Invested Capital over the past three periods registered 0.0%, 0.0%, and 0.01% for Q4 2025, Q3 2025, and Q2 2025 respectively.