Best Buy (BBY) FCF Payout Ratio (2009 - 2026)

Best Buy (BBY) has reported FCF Payout Ratio for 18 consecutive years, with 0.28 the latest figure, recorded in Q3 2026.

• On a quarterly basis, FCF Payout Ratio fell 21.34% year-over-year to 0.28 in Q3 2026; TTM through Aug 2026 was 0.45, a 23.72% decrease from a year earlier, with the FY2026 full-year figure at 0.64, up 9.83% from the prior year.
• FCF Payout Ratio was 0.28 for Q3 2026 at Best Buy, down from 0.94 in the prior quarter.
• Over five years, FCF Payout Ratio peaked at 50.5 in Q2 2024 and troughed at 0.08 in Q1 2022.
• A 5-year average of 4.22 and a median of 0.35 in 2025 frame the typical range for FCF Payout Ratio.
• Across the five-year window, FCF Payout Ratio plunged 50.89% in 2022 and soared 73.82% in 2024, its largest moves.
• Over 5 years, FCF Payout Ratio stood at 0.57 in 2022, then rose by 8.88% to 0.62 in 2023, then slumped by 31.84% to 0.42 in 2024, then declined by 17.55% to 0.35 in 2025, then fell by 21.34% to 0.28 in 2026.
• The last three FCF Payout Ratio figures came in at 0.28 (Q3 2026), 0.94 (Q2 2026), and 0.18 (Q1 2026), per Business Quant data.