Elevance Health's Dividends per Share for the
three
months ended in Mar. 2024 was $1.63.
During the past 12 months, Elevance Health's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 14.10% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 15.90% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 15.30% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 13.40% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Elevance Health was 29.50% per year. The lowest was 6.30% per year. And the median was 15.75% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
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Elevance Health Dividend Yield % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Elevance Health's Dividend Yield % can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
For the Healthcare Plans subindustry, Elevance Health's Dividend Yield %, along with its competitors' market caps and Dividend Yield % data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
Elevance Health Dividend Yield % Distribution
For the Healthcare Plans industry and Healthcare sector, Elevance Health's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Elevance Health's Dividend Yield % falls into.
Elevance Health Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
Elevance Health Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
USD 1.630
2024-03-07
2024-03-08
2024-03-22
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 1.480
2023-12-05
2023-12-06
2023-12-21
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 1.480
2023-09-07
2023-09-08
2023-09-22
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 1.480
2023-06-08
2023-06-09
2023-06-23
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
* GuruFocus has an internal rule that if the most recent dividend payment frequency is at least 4 times a year, then the full year will be calculated according to the frequency of payment or the one-year time frame, whichever is stricter.
* GuruFocus converts dividend currency to local traded share price currency in order to calculate dividend yield. Please refer to the last column "Forex Rate" in the above table.
Elevance Health's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield
=
Most Recent Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
6.07
/
535.90
=
1.13 %
Current Share Price is $535.90.
Elevance Health's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is $6.07.
Elevance Health's Forward Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Forward Annual Dividend Yield
=
Forward Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
6.52
/
535.90
=
1.22 %
Current Share Price is $535.90.
Elevance Health's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as $1.63 * 4 = $6.52.
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Elevance Health (NYSE:ELV) Dividend Yield % Explanation
Over the long term, the return from dividends has been a significant contributor to the total returns produced by equity securities. Studies by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton of Princeton University (2002) found that a market-oriented portfolio, which included reinvested dividends, would have generated nearly 85 times the wealth generated by the same portfolio relying solely on capital gains.
Dividends may also qualify a lower tax rate for investors.
In dividends investing, Payout Ratio and Dividend Growth Rate are the two most important variables for consideration. A lower payout ratio may indicate that the company has more room to increase its dividends.
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Elevance Health (Elevance Health) Business Description
Elevance Health remains one of the leading health insurers in the U.S., providing medical benefits to 48 million medical members as of June 2023. The company offers employer, individual, and government-sponsored coverage plans. Elevance differs from its peers in its unique position as the largest single provider of Blue Cross Blue Shield branded coverage, operating as the licensee for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association in 14 states. Through acquisitions, such as the Amerigroup deal in 2012 and MMM in 2021, Elevance's reach expands beyond those states through government-sponsored programs such as Medicaid and Medicare Advantage plans, too.
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