The historical rank and industry rank for National Western Life Group's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % or its related term are showing as below:
NWLI'
s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.07 Med: 0.15 Max: 0.28
Current: 0.07
During the past 13 years, National Western Life Group's highest Yield on Cost was 0.28. The lowest was 0.07. And the median was 0.15.
NWLI's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than 98.51% of 402
companies
in the Insurance industry
Industry Median: 3.86
vs NWLI: 0.07
Competitive Comparison of National Western Life Group's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %
For the Insurance - Life subindustry, National Western Life Group's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %, along with its competitors' market caps and 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % 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.
National Western Life Group's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Insurance Industry
For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, National Western Life Group's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where National Western Life Group's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.
National Western Life Group 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Calculation
Dividend Yield % and dividend growth of a stock is an important factor for income investors. But if company A raises its dividend constantly faster than company B, company A's future dividend yield might be much higher than Company B's even if their yields are the same now and their stock prices do not change.
Yield on Cost assumes that you buy and the stock today, and hold it for 5 years. If the company raises it dividends at the same rate as it did over the past 5 years, the dividends investors receive annually in 5 years relative to the stock price today.
National Western Life Group (NAS:NWLI) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Explanation
Of course the risk here is that the company may not raise its dividends as it did before. The key is to select the companies that can consistently raise its dividends. Usually companies with long history of raising dividends tend to do so.
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National Western Life Group (National Western Life Group) Business Description
National Western Life Group Inc is a global insurance company that provides insurance products for the savings, protection, and retirement needs of policyholders. The company's product portfolio includes individual whole life, universal life and term insurance plans, and annuities. The company is organized into four operating business segments based on product types and geographic marketing areas: Domestic life insurance, International life insurance, Annuities, and Acquired businesses. The annuities segment contributes roughly half of the company's revenue, and most of the company's revenue is earned in the United States.
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