Growth Metrics

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT) FCF Payout Ratio (2021 - 2026)

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital posted quarterly FCF Payout Ratio of 1.26 for Q1 2026, up 654.33% year-on-year from 0.17 in Q1 2025, and up 511.82% on a QoQ basis from 0.21 in Q4 2025.

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT) has 6 years of FCF Payout Ratio data on file, last reported at 1.26 in Q1 2026.

  • For the quarter ending Q1 2026, FCF Payout Ratio rose 654.33% year-over-year to 1.26; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at 0.62 (down 426.41% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was 0.15, down 57.42% from the prior year.
  • FCF Payout Ratio for Q1 2026 stood at 1.26, up from 0.21 in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, FCF Payout Ratio topped out at 2.06 in Q4 2022 and bottomed at 1.22 in Q2 2022.
  • The 5-year median for FCF Payout Ratio is 0.09 (2025), against an average of 0.13.
  • The widest annual swing landed in 2022, when FCF Payout Ratio soared 1631.22%; it then plunged 555.33% in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of FCF Payout Ratio shows it stood at 2.06 in 2022, then slumped by 104.82% to 0.1 in 2023, then retreated by 5.27% to 0.1 in 2024, then surged by 296.47% to 0.21 in 2025, then jumped by 511.82% to 1.26 in 2026.
  • The last three FCF Payout Ratio figures came in at 1.26 (Q1 2026), 0.21 (Q4 2025), and 0.09 (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) FCF Cover (Qtr)
1 BlackRock 158.51 Bn 148.89 Bn - -
2 Blackstone 92.68 Bn 91.63 Bn - 0.37
3 Kkr 84.94 Bn 132.45 Bn - 0.10
4 Brookfield Asset Management 77.34 Bn 77.68 Bn - 2.44
5 Apollo Global Management 76.27 Bn 95.00 Bn 5.04 Bn 0.18
6 State Street 44.42 Bn 18.75 Bn - -0.02
7 Ameriprise Financial 41.68 Bn 41.55 Bn 4.57 Bn 0.34
8 Northern Trust 31.21 Bn 31.21 Bn - -0.45
9 Ares Management 28.85 Bn 32.22 Bn - 0.21
10 PennantPark Floating Rate Capital - - - 1.26

Historic Data

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DateValue
Mar 31, 2026 1.26
Dec 31, 2025 0.21
Sep 30, 2025 -0.09
Jun 30, 2025 -0.85
Mar 31, 2025 -0.23
Dec 31, 2024 -0.10
Sep 30, 2024 -0.08
Jun 30, 2024 -0.13
Mar 31, 2024 -0.11
Dec 31, 2023 -0.10
Sep 30, 2023 0.22
Jun 30, 2023 0.32
Mar 31, 2023 1.48
Dec 31, 2022 2.06
Sep 30, 2022 0.19
Jun 30, 2022 -1.22
Mar 31, 2022 -0.57
Dec 31, 2021 -0.13