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Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2026)

Warner Bros. Discovery filings provide 17 years of Return on Capital Employed readings, the most recent being 0.84% for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Capital Employed rose 1203.0% to 0.84% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.84%, a 1203.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.82%, up 1107.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Capital Employed hit 0.84% in Q4 2025 for Warner Bros. Discovery, up from 0.62% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 7.19% in Q2 2021 to a low of 11.34% in Q3 2024.
  • Median Return on Capital Employed over the past 5 years was 2.18% (2023), compared with a mean of 2.03%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Capital Employed: plummeted -1359bps in 2023 and later soared 1203bps in 2025.
  • Warner Bros. Discovery's Return on Capital Employed stood at 6.51% in 2021, then tumbled by -194bps to 6.14% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 77bps to 1.43% in 2023, then tumbled by -680bps to 11.19% in 2024, then soared by 108bps to 0.84% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Capital Employed were 0.84% (Q4 2025), 0.62% (Q3 2025), and 0.25% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.