NorthWestern Energy (NWE) FCF Payout Ratio (2022 - 2026)

NorthWestern Energy (NWE) has 5 years of FCF Payout Ratio data on file, last reported at 0.95 in Q1 2026.

• For the quarter ending Q1 2026, FCF Payout Ratio rose 227.44% year-over-year to 0.95; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at 0.72 (up 35.29% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was 1.24, down 11.55% from the prior year.
• FCF Payout Ratio for Q1 2026 stood at 0.95, up from 0.09 in the prior quarter.
• Across five years, FCF Payout Ratio topped out at 1.0 in Q2 2025 and bottomed at 0.4 in Q4 2023.
• The 5-year median for FCF Payout Ratio is 0.15 (2023), against an average of 0.19.
• The widest annual swing landed in 2023, when FCF Payout Ratio tumbled 430.14%; it then jumped 514.87% in 2025.
• A 5-year view of FCF Payout Ratio shows it stood at 0.08 in 2022, then sank by 430.14% to 0.4 in 2023, then surged by 78.49% to 0.09 in 2024, then fell by 6.13% to 0.09 in 2025, then surged by 1135.84% to 0.95 in 2026.
• The last three FCF Payout Ratio figures came in at 0.95 (Q1 2026), 0.09 (Q4 2025), and 0.31 (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

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