Growth Metrics

International Business Machines (IBM) FCF Payout Ratio (2016 - 2025)

International Business Machines (IBM) has 17 years of FCF Payout Ratio data on record, last reported at 0.43 in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, FCF Payout Ratio rose 12.08% year-over-year to 0.43; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.52, up 4.24%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.52, 4.24% up from the prior year.
  • FCF Payout Ratio reached 0.43 in Q4 2025 per IBM's latest filing, down from 0.56 in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, FCF Payout Ratio topped out at 1.52 in Q2 2022 and bottomed at 0.33 in Q1 2021.
  • Average FCF Payout Ratio over 5 years is 0.62, with a median of 0.55 recorded in 2023.
  • Peak YoY movement for FCF Payout Ratio: skyrocketed 150.87% in 2021, then crashed 56.18% in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of FCF Payout Ratio shows it stood at 0.7 in 2021, then crashed by 40.31% to 0.42 in 2022, then fell by 13.21% to 0.36 in 2023, then rose by 5.28% to 0.38 in 2024, then rose by 12.08% to 0.43 in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for FCF Payout Ratio were 0.43 in Q4 2025, 0.56 in Q3 2025, and 1.05 in Q2 2025.