Communication Services / EntertainmentUpdated 2026-05-10 22:07 UTC

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Market cap

17.4B

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Market data

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E20.2

P25 9.1P50 13.9P75 26.1

Trailing P/E39.4

P25 9.5P50 16.4P75 38.9

ROE51

P25 -39P50 -0.5P75 11.8

ROIC18.1

P25 -10.3P50 2.5P75 10

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Indicator catalog

All WMG market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

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Showing 271 of 271 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0001319161
Company name	Warner Music Group Corp.
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	934550203
Employees	5,500
Employees Change	-300%
Employees Change Percent	-5.17
Enterprise value	$21.6B
Exchange	NASDAQ
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
Industry	Entertainment
IPO Date	2020-06-03
Isin	US9345502036
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$17.4B
Market cap category	Large-Cap
Price	$33.36
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	1,296,181.82x
Sector	Communication Services
Sic	7900
Symbol	WMG
Website	https://www.wmg.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	2.57%
EV Earnings	48.32x
EV Sales Forward	2.9x
EV/EBIT	18.29x
EV/EBITDA	13.65x
EV/FCF	29.63x
EV/Sales	3.03x
FCF yield	4.19%
Forward P/E	20.25x
P/B ratio	23.58x
P/E ratio	39.4x
P/S ratio	2.44x
PE Ratio3 Y	38.27x
PE Ratio5 Y	42.09x
PEG ratio	0.5x
PS Forward	2.33x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	16.57%
EBITDA Margin	22.21%
FCF margin	10.23%
Gross margin	45.8%
Gross Profit	$3.3B
Gross Profit Growth	10.12%
Gross Profit Growth Q	15.73%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	5.65%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	7.14%
Net Income	$447M
Net Income Growth Q	408.33%
Net Income Growth Quarters	1%
Net Income Growth Years	0%
Net Income Growth3 Y	1.86%
Pretax Margin	8.35%
Profit Margin	6.34%
Profit Per Employee	$81,273
Profitable Years	5
ROA	7.32
Roa5y	6.39
ROCE	19.08
ROE	50.96
Roe5y	12,440.7
ROIC	18.09
Roic5y	16.32

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr1y	13.75%
Cagr3y	9.06%
Cagr5y	0.25%
Div CAGR3	5.9%
Div CAGR5	9.63%
EPS Growth	-1.54
EPS Growth Q	393.1
EPS Growth Quarters	1
EPS Growth Years	0
EPS Growth3 Y	1.03
FCF Growth	-4.08%
FCF Growth Q	200%
FCF Growth3 Y	4.27%
FCF Growth5 Y	6.87%
OCF Growth	-5.6%
OCF Growth Q	82.61%
OCF Growth10 Y	12.83%
OCF Growth3 Y	2.98%
OCF Growth5 Y	6.41%
Revenue Growth	12.55x
Revenue Growth Q	16.71x
Revenue Growth Quarters	4x
Revenue Growth Years	5x
Revenue Growth3 Y	7.02x
Revenue Growth5 Y	8.59x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$0.71
Assets	$10.6B
Cash	$741M
Current Assets	$3.2B
Current Liabilities	$4.4B
Debt	$4.9B
Debt EBITDA	$2.99
Debt Equity	$5.08
Debt FCF	$6.78
Equity	$972M
Interest Coverage	6.56
Liabilities	$9.6B
Long Term Assets	$7.4B
Long Term Liabilities	$5.2B
Net Cash	$-4.2B
Net Cash By Market Cap	$-24.14
Net Debt EBITDA	$2.65
Net Debt Equity	$4.32
Net Debt FCF	$5.76
Tangible Book Value	$-4.6B
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$-8.76
WACC	9.28

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	0.73
Inventory Turnover	50.51
Net Working Capital	$-1.9B
Quick ratio	0.51
Working Capital	$-1.2B
Working Capital Turnover	$-5.66

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	-0.88%
Dividend Growth	5.56%
Dividend Growth Years	6%
Dividend per share	$0.76
Dividend Years	7
Dividend Yield	2.28%
Ex Div Date	2026-05-26
Last Dividend	$0.19
Payout Frequency	Quarterly
Payout Ratio	89.76%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
1Y total return	13.74%
200-day SMA	30.09
3Y total return	29.74%
50-day SMA	27.55
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50under200
5Y total return	1.23%
All Time High	50.23
All Time High Change	-33.59%
All Time High Date	2021-10-28
All Time Low	21.57
All Time Low Change	54.66%
All Time Low Date	2022-10-11
ATR	1.06
Beta	1.25
Beta1y	1.5
Beta2y	0.98
Ch YTD	8.77
High	33.6
High52	34.63
High52 Date	2025-10-01
High52ch	-3.67%
Low	31.94
Low52	23.34
Low52 Date	2026-03-24
Low52ch	42.93%
Ma50ch	21.08%
Premarket Change Percent	3.96
Premarket Price	$32.27
Premarket Volume	72,223
Price vs 200-day SMA	10.87%
RSI	77.48
RSI Monthly	54.67
RSI Weekly	60.44
Sharpe ratio	0.44x
Sortino ratio	0.81
Total Return	1.39%
Tr YTD	9.48
Tr1m	23.51%
Tr1w	19.23%
Tr3m	15.58%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	14
Analyst Count Top	5
Analyst Price Target Top	$40.4
Analyst Ratings	Buy
Analyst Ratings Top	Strong Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate	$0.3
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	328.6
Earnings Revenue Estimate	1,613,437,880x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	8.72x
Operating Income	$1.2B
Operating Income Growth	32.55
Operating Income Growth Q	49.17
Operating Income Growth3 Y	17.72
Operating Income Growth5 Y	56.2
Operating margin	16.57
Price target	$37.36
Price Target Change	$11.99
Price Target Change Top	$21.1

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	144,630,932%
Float Percent	27.73%
Net Borrowing	369,000,000
Shares Insiders	0.56%
Shares Institutions	30.17%
Shares Out	521,615,528
Shares Qo Q	0.49%
Shares Yo Y	0.88%
Short Float	6.27%
Short Ratio	3.96
Short Shares	1.74

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$671M
Average Volume	2,238,677.2x
Bv Per Share	1.41
CAPEX	$-114M
Ch1m	23.51
Ch1w	19.23
Ch1y	10.87
Ch3m	14.84
Ch3y	21.05
Ch5y	-8.93
Ch6m	10.35
Change	7.47%
Change From Open	3.44
Close	31.04
Days Gap	3.9
Depreciation Amortization	402,000,000
Dollar Volume	219,257,299
Earnings Date	2026-05-07
Earnings Time	amc
EBIT	$1.2B
EBITDA	$1.6B
EPS	$0.85
F Score	6
FCF	$729M
FCF EV Yield	3.37x
FCF Per Share	$1.4
Financing CF	-80,000,000
Fiscal Year End	September
Founded	1,929
Goodwill	2,054,000,000
Graham Number	5.19164
Graham Upside	-84.44
Income Tax	$146M
Investing CF	-661,000,000
Ipr	33.44
Iprfo	23.56
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-05-07
Last Report Date	2026-03-31
Last Split Type	Never
Last10k Filing Date	2025-11-20
Lynch Fair Value	$4.23
Lynch Upside	-87.31
Ma150	29.28
Ma150ch	13.93%
Ma20	29.33
Ma20ch	13.73%
Net CF	104,000,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-08-06
Open	32.25
Optionable	Yes
P FCF Ratio	23.87
P OCF Ratio	20.64
Payment Date	2026-06-02
Position In Range	85.54
Post Close	33.36
Postmarket Change Percent	0.39
Postmarket Price	$33.49
Ppne	582,000,000
Pre Close	31.04
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$10.99
Relative Volume	2.94x
Revenue	7,129,000,000x
SBC By Revenue	0.81x
Share Based Comp	58,000,000
Tax By Revenue	2.05x
Tax Rate	24.54%
Tr6m	11.78%
Us State	New York
Volume	6,572,461
Z Score	1.71

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Forward P/E

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Next action

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Income

WMG dividend yield, growth & safety

Yield, payout sustainability, and the multi-year growth streak.

Dividend yield

+2.3%

$0.76 annual per share

Payout ratio

+89.8%

Share of earnings returned as dividends. Below 60% is generally sustainable.

5Y dividend CAGR

+9.6%

6 consecutive years of growth

Total shareholder yield

+1.4%

Next ex-dividend date: 2026-05-26

Performance

WMG stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns WMG?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+30.2%

Float: +27.7% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+0.6%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

WMG momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

77.5

Above 70: short-term overbought

Price vs 200-day MA

+10.9%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

1.25

More volatile than the market

Sharpe ratio

0.44

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

WMG vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
DIS	The Walt Disney Company	187.6B	17.3x	1.9x	9.2%	+10.8%	+7.0%	Hold
GOOGL	Alphabet Inc.	4.9T	30.6x	11.5x	28.3%	+16.5%	+165.7%	Buy
META	Meta Platforms Inc.	1.5T	22.2x	7.2x	29.8%	+17.9%	+2.5%	Strong Buy

Questions

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