Dividends

WMGWarner Music Group

StockNasdaqUnited StatesCommunication servicesEU retail investors: available

+0.5% today · +3.6% over a year

No score: too little data.

Dividend yield 2.47%.

Warner Music Group (WMG) dividends: trailing yield 2.47%, Dividend Safety 39/100, not lowered for 6 years, 5-year growth 8.6% a year.

Trailing 12-month yieldA high yield can signal risk rather than safety: payouts may be cut, and part of a fund's distribution may be your own capital returned.
2.47%
Forward yield (next or typical regular payment, annualised)
2.57%
Dividends per share, last 12 months
$0.77
Payments per year
4
Dividend safety0–100 points: payout versus earnings and cash flow, debt, cut history, years without a lower dividend and how stretched the yield looks.
39 / 100
Unsafe

Yield after tax (estimate)

Before tax → After tax, CY non-dom

Last 12 months
2.47% → 2.04%
Forward
2.57% → 2.12%

Of every 100 paid out

Withheld at source (United States)
15.00%
Cyprus Special Defence Contribution (after credit for foreign tax)
0.00%
Cyprus GeSY health contribution
2.65%
You keep
82.35%
  • Source country assumed: United States (from the issuer’s data). Depositary receipts and companies listed outside their home country may be taxed by that home country.
  • US rate 15 % assumes a W-8BEN form is on file with your broker (US–Cyprus treaty); without it the US withholds 30 %.
  • GeSY 2.65 % applies to dividends and interest of every Cyprus resident, domiciled or not, up to €180,000 of income a year.

Cyprus resident, domiciled: 2.04%

Estimate, not tax advice: published rules as of 2026-10-14 for the profile chosen; your broker’s withholding and your own situation can differ. How we estimate tax

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Dividend profile

5-year dividend growth (per year)
+8.6%
Years without a lower dividend
6
Years without a cut of over 10 %
6
Payout ratio (free cash flow)
48%

Annual total matches the company's SEC filing

Our rules see a meaningful risk that this dividend is cut.

Caution. Dividend Safety below 40 points. More in the glossary →Dividend Safety below 40 points.

Sources disagreeDividend or fundamental sources disagree beyond tolerance.

Dividends per share by year

Sum of payments by calendar year of the ex-date; the current year is left out until it ends.

Dividends per share by year: 2020 $0.24, 2021 $0.54, 2022 $0.62, 2023 $0.66, 2024 $0.70, 2025 $0.742020: $0.242021: $0.542022: $0.622023: $0.662024: $0.702025: $0.74

Payment history

Amounts are per share on today's share count (adjusted for splits), before withholding tax.

Status
20 Aug 202601 Sep 2026$0.20RegularVerified3
26 May 202603 Jun 2026$0.19RegularVerified2
18 Feb 202604 Mar 2026$0.19RegularVerified2
19 Nov 202503 Dec 2025$0.19RegularSingle source2

Each payment is checked against up to 3 data feeds. Several feeds can share one upstream, so Verified needs two independent ones. Verified: two or more sources agree. Single source: not cross-checked yet. Sources disagree: the median is shown. Announced: declared, may still change.

What dividend safety is made of

0–100 points: payout versus earnings and cash flow, debt, cut history, years without a lower dividend and how stretched the yield looks.

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