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Warner Music (WMG) Retained Earnings (2016 - 2025)

Warner Music (WMG) has disclosed Retained Earnings for 16 consecutive years, with -$1.3 billion as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Retained Earnings fell 233.78% to -$1.3 billion in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was -$1.3 billion, a 233.78% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at -$1.3 billion, down 1.37% from a year prior.
  • Retained Earnings was -$1.3 billion for Q4 2025 at Warner Music, up from -$1.3 billion in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Retained Earnings ranged from a high of -$194.0 million in Q2 2021 to a low of -$1.7 billion in Q1 2021.
  • A 5-year average of -$842.2 million and a median of -$803.0 million in 2024 define the central range for Retained Earnings.
  • Biggest YoY gain for Retained Earnings was 88.45% in 2021; the steepest drop was 765.41% in 2021.
  • Warner Music's Retained Earnings stood at -$1.6 billion in 2021, then skyrocketed by 82.76% to -$276.0 million in 2022, then crashed by 377.17% to -$1.3 billion in 2023, then soared by 71.45% to -$376.0 million in 2024, then plummeted by 233.78% to -$1.3 billion in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for WMG's Retained Earnings are -$1.3 billion (Q4 2025), -$1.3 billion (Q3 2025), and -$1.3 billion (Q2 2025).