Growth Metrics

Palmer Square Capital BDC (PSBD) FCF Payout Ratio (2022 - 2026)

Palmer Square Capital BDC posted quarterly FCF Payout Ratio of 0.46 for Q1 2026, up 37.22% year-on-year from 0.34 in Q1 2025, and up 92.41% on a QoQ basis from 0.24 in Q4 2025.

Palmer Square Capital BDC (PSBD) has 5 years of FCF Payout Ratio data on file, last reported at 0.46 in Q1 2026.

  • For the quarter ending Q1 2026, FCF Payout Ratio rose 37.22% year-over-year to 0.46; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at 0.37 (down 50.19% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was 0.34, up 248.15% from the prior year.
  • FCF Payout Ratio for Q1 2026 stood at 0.46, up from 0.24 in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, FCF Payout Ratio topped out at 4.36 in Q3 2024 and bottomed at 31.06 in Q2 2024.
  • The 5-year median for FCF Payout Ratio is 0.24 (2023), against an average of 1.78.
  • The widest annual swing landed in 2023, when FCF Payout Ratio surged 226.12%; it then sank 4847.16% in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of FCF Payout Ratio shows it stood at 3.24 in 2022, then soared by 226.12% to 4.09 in 2023, then sank by 89.06% to 0.45 in 2024, then tumbled by 46.22% to 0.24 in 2025, then soared by 92.41% to 0.46 in 2026.
  • The last three FCF Payout Ratio figures came in at 0.46 (Q1 2026), 0.24 (Q4 2025), and 0.77 (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 Palmer Square Capital BDC 338.08 Mn 336.59 Mn - 0.46

Historic Data

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DateValue
Mar 31, 2026 0.46
Dec 31, 2025 0.24
Sep 30, 2025 0.77
Jun 30, 2025 0.31
Mar 31, 2025 0.34
Dec 31, 2024 0.45
Sep 30, 2024 4.36
Jun 30, 2024 -31.06
Dec 31, 2023 4.09
Sep 30, 2023 -3.66
Jun 30, 2023 -0.63
Mar 31, 2023 0.25
Dec 31, 2022 -3.24
Sep 30, 2022 0.12
Jun 30, 2022 -0.60
Mar 31, 2022 -0.71