Growth Metrics

Western Union (WU) Return on Invested Capital (2016 - 2025)

Western Union has reported Return on Invested Capital over the past 16 years, most recently at 0.4% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Invested Capital at 0.4% for Q4 2025, up 17.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.4% (up 17.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.38%, up 14.0%.
  • Return on Invested Capital for Q4 2025 was 0.4% at Western Union, up from 0.18% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Invested Capital for WU hit a ceiling of 1.24% in Q2 2021 and a floor of 0.13% in Q1 2023.
  • Median Return on Invested Capital over the past 5 years was 0.24% (2024), compared with a mean of 0.34%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Invested Capital: skyrocketed 74bps in 2021 and later tumbled -93bps in 2022.
  • Western Union's Return on Invested Capital stood at 0.48% in 2021, then increased by 2bps to 0.49% in 2022, then tumbled by -53bps to 0.23% in 2023, then decreased by -3bps to 0.22% in 2024, then skyrocketed by 77bps to 0.4% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Invested Capital were 0.4% (Q4 2025), 0.18% (Q3 2025), and 0.21% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.