Communication Services
Live Price
Offline$28.17
-1.23% today
1Y Change
+4.96%
Window
Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026
Coverage: 250 bars · Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Warner Music Group Corp. (WMG) is a Communication Services stock with a market cap of $14.68B and listed on NASDAQ. The stock last traded around $28.17 and up 5.0% across the available one-year price window (Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +4.4%, EPS growth of -15.7%, a dividend yield of 2.7%. What stands out right now is revenue +4.4%, EPS -15.7%, free cash flow -15.5% with operating margin 11.7% and ROIC 10.5%. The dividend matters to the case here, with a current yield around 2.7%. Valuation already assumes a fairly strong business story at P/E 47.8 and price/sales 2.1. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines WMG price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Communication Services peers on this page.
Benchmark Comparison
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WMG
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
WMG Max Drawdown
-30.93%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for WMG and SPY.
Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$5.3B
-10.4% YoY
FY Net Income
$304.0M
-44.8% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$64.0M
-84.6% YoY
Revenue Growth
+4.4%
EPS Growth
-15.7%
Gross Margin
44.4%
Net Margin
4.4%
Income statement
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| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 6.7B | 6.4B | 6.0B | 5.9B | 5.3B |
| Gross Profit | 3.1B | 3.1B | 2.9B | 2.8B | 2.6B |
| Operating Income | 694M | 823M | 790M | 714M | 609M |
| EBITDA | 1.1B | 1.1B | 1.1B | 1.2B | 884M |
| Net Income | 365M | 435M | 430M | 551M | 304M |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
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| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 532M | 694M | 641M | 584M | 499M |
| Total Assets | 9.8B | 9.2B | 8.5B | 7.8B | 7.2B |
| Total Liabilities | 9.1B | 8.5B | 8.1B | 7.7B | 7.2B |
| Shareholder Equity | 647M | 518M | 307M | 152M | 31M |
| Total Debt | 4.6B | 4.3B | 4.3B | 4.0B | 3.7B |
| Net Debt | 4.1B | 3.6B | 3.6B | 3.4B | 3.2B |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
638M
-14.0% YoY
Capital Expenditures
574M
-76.1% YoY
Free Cash Flow
64M
-84.6% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
44.4%
Operating Margin
11.7%
Net Margin
4.4%
ROE
48.4%
Debt / Equity
6.66x
Next Step
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