The Walt Disney Company (DIS): return on invested capital, 10 filed years
ROIC at The Walt Disney Company was 8.3% in FY2024, the newest year it could be computed. Across the 7 computed years from FY2016 it ranged from 5.9% (FY2021) to 21.3% (FY2018), with a median of 8.3%.
Tonight's figure on the company page: n/a, recomputed 2026-10-15. The table is each filed year on its own terms, with the formula below; the current figure may use trailing twelve months or, where the explainer says so, a different denominator.
Year by year
| Fiscal year | ROIC | Read from |
|---|---|---|
| FY2016 | 16.1% | period ended 2016-09-30 |
| FY2017 | 16.0% | 10-K, filed 2019-11-20 |
| FY2018 | 21.3% | 10-K, filed 2019-11-20 |
| FY2019 The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read. | n/a | 10-K, filed 2019-11-20 |
| FY2020 The filed income tax is outside 0 to 100% of pre-tax income (a tax benefit on a profit, a charge on a loss, or a charge above the profit), which is a one-off in the tax line and not a rate operating profit was taxed at, so after-tax operating profit is not computed. | n/a | 10-K, filed 2020-11-25 |
| FY2021 | 5.9% | 10-K, filed 2021-11-24 |
| FY2022 | 6.0% | 10-K, filed 2022-11-29 |
| FY2023 | 6.7% | 10-K, filed 2023-11-21 |
| FY2024 | 8.3% | 10-K, filed 2024-11-14 |
| FY2025 The filed income tax is outside 0 to 100% of pre-tax income (a tax benefit on a profit, a charge on a loss, or a charge above the profit), which is a one-off in the tax line and not a rate operating profit was taxed at, so after-tax operating profit is not computed. | n/a | 10-K, filed 2025-11-13 |
How each year is computed
Operating income x (1 - effective tax rate) / (equity + total debt - cash) x 100
Each year is a ratio of lines in that year's filed annual report, with the nightly recompute's own rules for what counts as a filed line. Nothing is estimated, smoothed or filled in: a year that cannot be computed says why.
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A computation on accounts filed with the SEC, not a recommendation and not advice. Past filings do not indicate future results. Risk disclaimer.