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Company snapshot — Warner Music Group

WMG in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Warner Music Group finds and develops recording artists, then markets, promotes, distributes and licenses their music worldwide through its Recorded Music segment. Its Music Publishing arm owns and administers a large catalogue of songs and scores, licensing them for use in film, television and other media. It operates through a group of record labels and works with retailers, streaming platforms and download services to get music to listeners. The company is headquartered in New York.
Where it sits in the stack
Warner Music Group has no seat in Closelook's index; it sits in our Communication Services sleeve, grouped by sector and country rather than by any build-out layer.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group places it with other Communication Services names from the same country, including Meta Platforms, Alphabet, NetEase and Reddit; the market's other music-rights comparison is Universal Music Group.
Why Closelook tracks it
It carries a Closelook score, with valuation reading as the strongest module and momentum as the weakest; it holds no index seat and has not yet drawn a mention in the diary's editions.
What the diary watches
Whether the balance-sheet and momentum readings recover, and whether streaming and catalogue licensing income shifts the score's weaker modules.

Warner Music Group (WMG) trades on US exchanges, classified under Communication Services.

The Closelook company score reads 49/100 composite (momentum 41, quality 62, valuation 57) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for WMG, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Entertainment · US · 6 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Entertainment · US

Names in the same industry from the Closelook universe; scored names rank on their Closelook score, the rest on trend state.

Compared against WMG on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 2.81%, quarterly · buybacks 16 m USD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What WMG pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 0.77 USD per share · a 2.81% yield on the 2026-09-22 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-22
  • Change on the year +40.1% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.55 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.20 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-08-20
  • By calendar year 2025: 0.74 USD (partial) · 2026: 0.58 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-02-24
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 383 m USD 41% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 16 m USD 0.1% of today's market value
  • Share count +0.3% in FY2025 54 m USD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 399 m USD · 74% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 66/100 · S&P 500 fund at 64, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-22
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +10.8% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-22
  • Sector × region Communication services in US: −0.1% week · +2.2% month · +6.2% quarter · −2.5% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLC.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-22
  • Sovereign pressure Index -0.03 · down 0.40 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-22

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-23

Quick answers

What is Warner Music Group (WMG)?

Warner Music Group trades as WMG on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Communication Services in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-23.

Is WMG in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Warner Music Group is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-23.

What is Warner Music Group's Closelook composite score?

49 out of 100, with momentum 41, quality 62 and valuation 57 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-23. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does WMG trade against its moving averages?

Recovery attempt under the 200-day: Trades +0.2% vs the 50-day and -3.2% vs the 200-day average, 21.7% below the 52-week high and +18.9% off the 52-week low; a death cross printed 37 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-22 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Warner Music Group do?

Warner Music Group finds and develops recording artists, then markets, promotes, distributes and licenses their music worldwide through its Recorded Music segment. Its Music Publishing arm owns and administers a large catalogue of songs and scores, licensing them for use in film, television and other media. It operates through a group of record labels and works with retailers, streaming platforms and download services to get music to listeners. Closelook's peer group places it with other Communication Services names from the same country, including Meta Platforms, Alphabet, NetEase and Reddit; the market's other music-rights comparison is Universal Music Group.

Where does Warner Music Group sit in the AI build-out?

Warner Music Group has no seat in Closelook's index; it sits in our Communication Services sleeve, grouped by sector and country rather than by any build-out layer. It carries a Closelook score, with valuation reading as the strongest module and momentum as the weakest; it holds no index seat and has not yet drawn a mention in the diary's editions.

Does Warner Music Group pay a dividend?

Warner Music Group has paid 0.77 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 2.81% on the 2026-09-22 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.20 USD on 2026-08-20. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 383 m USD in dividends and bought back 16 m USD of its own shares, 74% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count rose 0.3% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for WMG, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Entertainment. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.