Growth Metrics

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) Return on Invested Capital (2016 - 2025)

Warner Bros. Discovery's Return on Invested Capital history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 0.0% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Invested Capital rose 14.0% year-over-year to 0.0%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.0%, up 14.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.0%, 13.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Invested Capital reached 0.0% in Q4 2025 per WBD's latest filing, up from 0.0% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Invested Capital ranged from a high of 0.07% in Q2 2021 to a low of 0.13% in Q4 2024.
  • Average Return on Invested Capital over 5 years is 0.03%, with a median of 0.02% recorded in 2023.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Invested Capital: fell -13bps in 2023, then grew 14bps in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Invested Capital shows it stood at 0.06% in 2021, then tumbled by -201bps to 0.06% in 2022, then soared by 78bps to 0.01% in 2023, then plummeted by -883bps to 0.13% in 2024, then surged by 104bps to 0.0% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for WBD's Return on Invested Capital are 0.0% (Q4 2025), 0.0% (Q3 2025), and 0.0% (Q2 2025).