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Schwab Charles (SCHW) Free Cash Flow (2016 - 2025)

Schwab Charles has reported Free Cash Flow over the past 14 years, most recently at -$921.0 million for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Free Cash Flow at -$921.0 million for Q4 2025, up 91.69% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was $8.8 billion (up 327.46% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was $8.8 billion, up 327.46%.
  • Free Cash Flow for Q4 2025 was -$921.0 million at Schwab Charles, down from $393.0 million in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Free Cash Flow for SCHW hit a ceiling of $20.0 billion in Q4 2023 and a floor of -$11.1 billion in Q4 2024.
  • Median Free Cash Flow over the past 5 years was -$220.0 million (2021), compared with a mean of $1.6 billion.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Free Cash Flow: plummeted 882.47% in 2022 and later skyrocketed 965.05% in 2023.
  • Schwab Charles' Free Cash Flow stood at $5.3 billion in 2021, then plummeted by 143.35% to -$2.3 billion in 2022, then skyrocketed by 965.05% to $20.0 billion in 2023, then tumbled by 155.48% to -$11.1 billion in 2024, then surged by 91.69% to -$921.0 million in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Free Cash Flow were -$921.0 million (Q4 2025), $393.0 million (Q3 2025), and $3.0 billion (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.