Growth Metrics

Warner Music (WMG) Retained Earnings (2016 - 2026)

Warner Music has reported Retained Earnings over the past 16 years, most recently at -$180.0 million for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly Retained Earnings rose 84.63% to -$180.0 million in Q4 2025 from the year-ago period, while the trailing twelve-month figure was -$180.0 million through Dec 2025, up 84.63% year-over-year, with the annual reading at -$189.0 million for FY2025, 23.48% up from the prior year.
  • Retained Earnings was -$180.0 million for Q4 2025 at Warner Music, up from -$189.0 million in the prior quarter.
  • Over five years, Retained Earnings peaked at -$180.0 million in Q4 2025 and troughed at -$1.7 billion in Q1 2021.
  • The 5-year median for Retained Earnings is -$306.0 million (2024), against an average of -$735.4 million.
  • Year-over-year, Retained Earnings crashed 765.41% in 2021 and then surged 84.63% in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of Retained Earnings shows it stood at -$1.6 billion in 2021, then soared by 82.76% to -$276.0 million in 2022, then tumbled by 377.17% to -$1.3 billion in 2023, then grew by 11.09% to -$1.2 billion in 2024, then surged by 84.63% to -$180.0 million in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for WMG's Retained Earnings are -$180.0 million (Q4 2025), -$189.0 million (Q3 2025), and -$1.3 billion (Q2 2025).