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Warner Music Group Corp. WMG
15 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
4 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
In brief
What this company does
Written from the business description in Warner Music Group Corp.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 20 November 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.
Growth
USD 6.7B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 15-year series below
Revenue $B
Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 6.7 · Net income 0.4
Compound annual growth
+4.3%
+8.5%
+8.5%
+5.5%
−12.8%
−13.3%
+6.2%
+7.9%
+3.0%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs
Revenue compounded at +8.5% a year over five years.
Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.
Profitability
5 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin
Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 10.3% · Net 5.4%
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 62.7%
Each USD of equity produced 63 cents of profit this year.
The 15-year record
15 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2010 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue $B | 6.7 | 6.4 | 6.0 | 5.9 | 5.3 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 2.9 | 2.8 | 3.0 |
| Operating income $B | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.6 | −0.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| EBITDA $B | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
| Income tax $B | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | −0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | −0.0 | −0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Net income $B | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.3 | −0.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | −0.1 | −0.3 | −0.2 | −0.1 | −0.1 |
| Free cash flow $B | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| EPS, diluted $ | 0.69 | 0.83 | 0.82 | 1.06 | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Dividend / sh $ | 0.73 | 0.69 | 0.65 | 0.61 | 0.51 | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Payout % | 105 | 83 | 79 | 58 | 87 | −72 | 37 | 301 | 59 | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| ROE % | 62.7 | 105.5 | 187.4 | 602.2 | · | · | · | · | 58.6 | 12.0 | −30.7 | −56.2 | −24.0 | −11.2 | · |
| Shares out B | · | · | · | · | · | · | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | · |
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Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 46 reconciliationsAUDITED
Reconciled in 16 of 19 fiscal years. 34 checks could not be computed.
EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityServices-Amusement & Recreation Services
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsSeptember 30
Data on record since2010