What is American Financial Group Forward Dividend Yield %?
As of today (2024-04-25), the Forward Annual Dividend Yield of American Financial Group is 2.19%.
As of today (2024-04-25), the Trailing Annual Dividend Yield of American Financial Group is 2.13%.
AFG's Forward Dividend Yield % is ranked worse than 75.32% of 385
companies
in the Insurance industry
Industry Median: 3.8
vs AFG: 2.19
American Financial Group's Dividends per Share for the
three
months ended in Dec. 2023 was $0.71.
During the past 12 months, American Financial Group's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 12.60% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 12.00% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 12.20% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 12.40% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of American Financial Group was 154.40% per year. The lowest was -20.70% per year. And the median was 11.95% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
For more information regarding to dividend, please check our Dividend Page.
Competitive Comparison of American Financial Group's Forward Dividend Yield %
For the Insurance - Property & Casualty subindustry, American Financial Group's Forward Dividend Yield %, along with its competitors' market caps and Forward 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.
American Financial Group's Forward Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Insurance Industry
For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, American Financial Group's Forward Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where American Financial Group's Forward Dividend Yield % falls into.
American Financial Group Forward Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
American Financial Group Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
USD 0.710
2024-04-12
2024-04-15
2024-04-25
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.710
2024-01-11
2024-01-15
2024-01-25
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.710
2023-10-12
2023-10-13
2023-10-25
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.630
2023-07-13
2023-07-14
2023-07-25
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.
American Financial Group's Forward Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Forward Annual Dividend Yield
=
Forward Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
2.84
/
129.72
=
2.19 %
Current Share Price is $129.72.
American Financial Group's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as $0.71 * 4 = $2.84.
American Financial Group's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield
=
Most Recent Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
2.76
/
129.72
=
2.13 %
Current Share Price is $129.72.
American Financial Group's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is $2.76.
* 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.
American Financial Group (NYSE:AFG) Forward 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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American Financial Group (American Financial Group) Business Description
American Financial Group Inc is a holding company that is engaged primarily in property and casualty insurance services. The company has a focus on specialized commercial products for businesses. American also has annuity operations that are focused on sales of traditional fixed and fixed-indexed annuities in the education, bank, and individual markets. American's insurance operations are conducted through the Great American Insurance Group. The group writes business in all 50 of the United States, primarily through independent agents and brokers.
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