Growth Metrics

Warner Music (WMG) Other Operating Expenses (2016 - 2025)

Warner Music has reported Other Operating Expenses over the past 16 years, most recently at -$5.0 million for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly Other Operating Expenses changed N/A to -$5.0 million in Q4 2025 from the year-ago period, while the trailing twelve-month figure was -$5.0 million through Dec 2025, down 133.33% year-over-year, with the annual reading at $32.0 million for FY2024, 21.95% down from the prior year.
  • Other Operating Expenses was -$5.0 million for Q4 2025 at Warner Music, down from $1.0 million in the prior quarter.
  • Over five years, Other Operating Expenses peaked at $811.0 million in Q3 2021 and troughed at -$5.0 million in Q4 2025.
  • The 5-year median for Other Operating Expenses is $29.0 million (2022), against an average of $287.6 million.
  • Year-over-year, Other Operating Expenses increased 29.09% in 2021 and then tumbled 58.54% in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Other Operating Expenses shows it stood at $811.0 million in 2021, then crashed by 94.94% to $41.0 million in 2022, then plummeted by 58.54% to $17.0 million in 2023, then tumbled by 94.12% to $1.0 million in 2024, then plummeted by 600.0% to -$5.0 million in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for WMG's Other Operating Expenses are -$5.0 million (Q4 2025), $1.0 million (Q2 2024), and $14.0 million (Q1 2024).