Alcoa

AA Basic Materials Aluminum

Alcoa’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $12.8 billion, up 7.87% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+23.7%
EPS
+108.0%
Free cash flow
+854.0%
Total debt
+87.0%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

38.60 1.98 −4.88%
Market cap
$10.1B
P/E
6.6×
Fwd P/E
6.3×
Dividend yield
1.04%
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
1.75
Beneish M
−2.41
Dividend safety
78/100

Alcoa (AA) Return on invested capital

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Alcoa's return on invested capital over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 13.8%, up 12.3 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (1.48%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from −3.19% (fiscal 2023) to 13.7% (fiscal 2018); the current reading is higher than 45% of that period. That is above the Basic Materials sector median of 0.96%.

Return on invested capital, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Return on invested capital Change (points)
FY2025 1.48% (3.62)
FY2024 5.10% 8.29
FY2023 −3.19% (9.32)
FY2022 6.13% (3.44)
FY2021 9.57% 6.09
FY2020 3.48% 4.90
FY2019 −1.42% (15.09)
FY2018 13.7% 1.52
FY2017 12.2% 12.03
FY2016 0.12% 0.26

Against its own ten years

Low −3.19% High 13.7%
Ten-year median 3.48%
Current reading's percentile 45

Return on invested capital against peers

What Return on invested capital is

Return on Invested Capital shows how much after-tax operating profit a company earns on the money its lenders and shareholders have put in.

TTM: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) (latest quarter) + Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)); Annual: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) + Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt − Cash & Short Term Investments)

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