Growth Metrics

Warner Music (WMG) Return on Equity (2016 - 2025)

Warner Music (WMG) has disclosed Return on Equity for 15 consecutive years, with 0.6% as the latest value for Q3 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Equity fell 13.0% to 0.6% in Q3 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Sep 2025 was 0.6%, a 13.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.56%, down 31.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Equity was 0.6% for Q3 2025 at Warner Music, up from 0.45% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Equity ranged from a high of 4.35% in Q3 2021 to a low of 5.7% in Q1 2021.
  • A 5-year average of 1.37% and a median of 1.2% in 2023 define the central range for Return on Equity.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Equity: plummeted -7853bps in 2021, then skyrocketed 785bps in 2022.
  • Warner Music's Return on Equity stood at 3.63% in 2021, then crashed by -40bps to 2.18% in 2022, then plummeted by -55bps to 0.97% in 2023, then decreased by -21bps to 0.77% in 2024, then dropped by -22bps to 0.6% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for WMG's Return on Equity are 0.6% (Q3 2025), 0.45% (Q2 2025), and 0.63% (Q1 2025).