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Warner Music Group Corp.

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services

Listing type has not been classified. Company financial ratios are not specific to a share class. CIK 0001319161

Dividend overview

Latest reported dividend

Not available

No event collected.

Next announced payment

Not available

No future payment is present in our collected records.

Ex-dividend date

Not reported

For the next collected payment. An unreported date is not inferred from the record date.

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Cash flow & dividend coverage

Cash payout ratio

104.9%

Annual cash dividends ÷ net income.

FCF payout ratio

71.1%

Annual cash dividends ÷ (operating cash flow − PP&E expenditures).

Company-level · annual period Oct 1, 2024 – Sep 30, 2025. Metric date: Oct 21, 2026. Calculated: 2026-10-21T13:36:44.981Z (UTC). Underlying filing

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Cash-dividend numerator: Total cash dividends. Total cash dividends may include more than the common-share distribution.

Dividend history

No matching dividend events have been collected. This does not establish that the company pays no dividend.

Financial context

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Annual net income

20212022202320242025

Reported annual periods; USD. Negative values extend below the baseline.

Selected annual US-GAAP cash-flow and earnings facts · USD
Reporting periodMeasureUSD millionsFiling
Sep 30, 2025From Oct 1, 2024Operating cash flow678.0SEC filingNov 20, 2025
Sep 30, 2025From Oct 1, 2024Net income365.0SEC filingNov 20, 2025
Sep 30, 2025From Oct 1, 2024Total cash dividends383.0SEC filingNov 20, 2025
Sep 30, 2025From Oct 1, 2024Capital expenditures (PP&E)139.0SEC filingNov 20, 2025
Sep 30, 2024From Oct 1, 2023Operating cash flow754.0SEC filingNov 20, 2025
Sep 30, 2024From Oct 1, 2023Net income435.0SEC filingNov 20, 2025
Sep 30, 2024From Oct 1, 2023Total cash dividends361.0SEC filingNov 20, 2025
Sep 30, 2024From Oct 1, 2023Capital expenditures (PP&E)116.0SEC filingNov 20, 2025
Sep 30, 2023From Oct 1, 2022Operating cash flow687.0SEC filingNov 20, 2025
Sep 30, 2023From Oct 1, 2022Net income430.0SEC filingNov 20, 2025
Sep 30, 2023From Oct 1, 2022Total cash dividends340.0SEC filingNov 20, 2025
Sep 30, 2023From Oct 1, 2022Capital expenditures (PP&E)127.0SEC filingNov 20, 2025
Sep 30, 2022From Oct 1, 2021Operating cash flow742.0SEC filingNov 21, 2024
Sep 30, 2022From Oct 1, 2021Net income551.0SEC filingNov 21, 2024
Sep 30, 2022From Oct 1, 2021Total cash dividends318.0SEC filingNov 21, 2024
Sep 30, 2022From Oct 1, 2021Capital expenditures (PP&E)135.0SEC filingNov 21, 2024
Sep 30, 2021From Oct 1, 2020Operating cash flow638.0SEC filingNov 21, 2023
Sep 30, 2021From Oct 1, 2020Net income304.0SEC filingNov 21, 2023
Sep 30, 2021From Oct 1, 2020Total cash dividends265.0SEC filingNov 21, 2023
Sep 30, 2020From Oct 1, 2019Operating cash flow463.0SEC filingNov 22, 2022

Latest filed value per tag and exact annual period, within the last seven years. Common-stock and total cash dividends are separate measures; do not add them together. These selected facts are not a complete financial statement.

Read the numbers in context

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Sources & corrections

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