CoreCivic, Inc. (CXW) — is the dividend affordable?
Fiscal year ending 2025-12-31 · sector Real estate · payout ratios computed from SEC filings, not taken from a data vendor.
Funds from operations is not shown for this company. It cannot be computed from what this company files — the inputs are absent from its XBRL, not zero. The figure marked in the table is free cash flow instead.
| Basis | Payout | Why it differs |
|---|---|---|
| Free cash flow | 0.1% | Counts property acquisitions as though they were maintenance. |
No GAAP earnings and operating cash flow figure is shown. This company does not report the inputs for it in its XBRL filings — capital expenditure, in particular, is often folded into a single investing total rather than tagged on its own. The figure is absent from the filings, not zero, and inventing one from a balance-sheet movement would be a guess dressed as a measurement.
Coverage rating 36 / 100 — Strained. ? Peer standing · not rankedDirection 18/30Stability 0/20
Free cash flow payout, last 6 years
| Fiscal year | Payout |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 0.1% |
| 2024-12-31 | 0.1% |
| 2023-12-31 | 0.1% |
| 2022-12-31 | 1.3% |
| 2021-12-31 | 1.4% |
| 2020-12-31 | 54.1% |
The arithmetic
- Free cash flow — dividends paid $0.0m ÷ (operating cash flow $194.6m − capex $141.8m)
Where the figures came from
- 10-K filed 2026-02-20 · accession
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Every one is public at sec.gov and free to check. That is the point — you should not have to take my word for any of it.
Caveats on this company
- DPS derived from dividends paid ($0.00); no per-share tag filed
- FFO derived (NAREIT approximation)
- basis discarded as outside the sane band (ratio too small to state): earnings, ocf, ffo
Computed by an open pipeline reading SEC XBRL directly. If any number here looks wrong to you, tell me — that is more useful to me than agreement.