Capital One Financial (COF) FCF Payout Ratio (2009 - 2026)

Capital One Financial (COF) reported FCF Payout Ratio of 0.09 for Q1 2026, up 69.39% year-over-year from 0.05 in Q1 2025, and up 33.45% on a QoQ basis from 0.07 in Q4 2025.

Capital One Financial (COF) FCF Payout Ratio (2009 - 2026) Analysis & Trends

Capital One Financial (COF) has 18 years of FCF Payout Ratio data on file, last reported at 0.09 in Q1 2026.

  • Quarterly FCF Payout Ratio rose 69.39% year-over-year to 0.09 in Q1 2026, while the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 was 0.07 (down 17.12% YoY) and the FY2025 annual result came in at 0.06, up 5.51% from the prior year.
  • FCF Payout Ratio advanced to 0.09 in Q1 2026 per COF's latest filing, from 0.07 in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, FCF Payout Ratio topped out at 0.36 in Q4 2024 and bottomed at 0.81 in Q1 2022.
  • The 5-year median for FCF Payout Ratio is 0.07 (2025), against an average of 0.03.
  • The widest annual swing landed in 2022, when FCF Payout Ratio slumped 743.66%; it then surged 967.73% in 2024.
  • Tracing COF's FCF Payout Ratio over 5 years: stood at 0.03 in 2022, then rose by 16.03% to 0.03 in 2023, then surged by 967.73% to 0.36 in 2024, then plunged by 81.1% to 0.07 in 2025, then soared by 33.45% to 0.09 in 2026.
  • Per Business Quant, the three latest COF FCF Payout Ratio figures stand at 0.09 (Q1 2026), 0.07 (Q4 2025), and 0.04 (Q3 2025).

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) FCF Cover (Qtr)
1 Visa 539.53 Bn 527.13 Bn - 0.49
2 Mastercard 441.81 Bn 431.60 Bn - 0.28
3 American Express 215.01 Bn 160.96 Bn 17.43 Bn 0.22
4 Capital One Financial 114.99 Bn 38.50 Bn - 0.09
5 PayPal Holdings 41.29 Bn 31.95 Bn 7.84 Bn 0.14
6 Affirm Holdings 24.62 Bn 22.89 Bn 261.64 Mn -
7 Synchrony Financial 24.22 Bn 3.66 Bn - 0.01
8 SoFi Technologies 23.71 Bn 20.31 Bn 929.25 Mn -
9 Ally Financial 13.13 Bn 12.69 Bn 1.98 Bn 0.02
10 Credit Acceptance 6.46 Bn 6.44 Bn 562.70 Mn -

Historic Data

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DateValue
Mar 31, 2026 0.09
Dec 31, 2025 0.07
Sep 30, 2025 0.04
Jun 30, 2025 0.07
Mar 31, 2025 0.05
Dec 31, 2024 0.36
Sep 30, 2024 0.04
Jun 30, 2024 0.04
Mar 31, 2024 0.09
Dec 31, 2023 0.03
Sep 30, 2023 0.03
Jun 30, 2023 0.07
Mar 31, 2023 0.08
Dec 31, 2022 0.03
Sep 30, 2022 0.09
Jun 30, 2022 0.09
Mar 31, 2022 -0.81
Dec 31, 2021 0.21
Sep 30, 2021 0.30
Jun 30, 2021 0.05