Warner Music (WMG) Payout Ratio (2010 - 2026)

Warner Music (WMG) has reported Payout Ratio for 17 consecutive years, with 0.5 the latest figure, recorded in Q2 2026.

• On a quarterly basis, Payout Ratio rose 108.51% year-over-year to 0.5 in Q2 2026; TTM through Jun 2026 was 0.6, a 50.7% decrease from a year earlier, with the FY2025 full-year figure at 1.04, up 37.06% from the prior year.
• Payout Ratio was 0.5 for Q2 2026 at Warner Music, down from 0.55 in the prior quarter.
• Over five years, Payout Ratio peaked at 2.64 in Q1 2025 and troughed at 5.88 in Q2 2025.
• A 5-year average of 0.55 and a median of 0.63 in 2022 frame the typical range for Payout Ratio.
• Across the five-year window, Payout Ratio surged 238.86% in 2024 and tumbled 1030.76% in 2025, its largest moves.
• Over 5 years, Payout Ratio stood at 0.68 in 2022, then tumbled by 31.93% to 0.46 in 2023, then slipped by 15.42% to 0.39 in 2024, then jumped by 46.5% to 0.57 in 2025, then retreated by 12.5% to 0.5 in 2026.
• The last three Payout Ratio figures came in at 0.5 (Q2 2026), 0.55 (Q1 2026), and 0.57 (Q4 2025), per Business Quant data.