Brown Forman (BF-A) Payout Ratio (2009 - 2026)

Brown Forman (BF-A) has reported Payout Ratio for 18 consecutive years, with 0.6 the latest figure, recorded in Q3 2026.

• On a quarterly basis, Payout Ratio fell 4.31% year-over-year to 0.6 in Q3 2026; TTM through Jul 2026 was 0.59, a 17.61% increase from a year earlier, with the FY2026 full-year figure at 0.6, up 23.56% from the prior year.
• Payout Ratio was 0.6 for Q3 2026 at Brown Forman, down from 1.96 in the prior quarter.
• Over five years, Payout Ratio peaked at 2.2 in Q1 2022 and troughed at 0.36 in Q1 2024.
• A 5-year average of 0.67 and a median of 0.48 in 2025 frame the typical range for Payout Ratio.
• Across the five-year window, Payout Ratio jumped 459.45% in 2022 and slumped 63.49% in 2024, its largest moves.
• Over 5 years, Payout Ratio stood at 0.4 in 2022, then rose by 2.14% to 0.4 in 2023, then slipped by 1.42% to 0.4 in 2024, then grew by 19.65% to 0.48 in 2025, then advanced by 26.08% to 0.6 in 2026.
• The last three Payout Ratio figures came in at 0.6 (Q3 2026), 1.96 (Q2 2026), and 0.4 (Q1 2026), per Business Quant data.