During the past 12 months, Great-West Lifeco's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 6.60% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 5.90% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 5.90% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 5.70% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Great-West Lifeco was 21.40% per year. The lowest was 0.80% per year. And the median was 7.95% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
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* Please note that "special dividend" is not included in the calculation of dividend per share and related fields.
Great-West Lifeco Dividend Yield % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Great-West Lifeco'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.
Competitive Comparison of Great-West Lifeco's Dividend Yield %
For the Insurance - Life subindustry, Great-West Lifeco'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.
Great-West Lifeco's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Insurance Industry
For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, Great-West Lifeco's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Great-West Lifeco's Dividend Yield % falls into.
Great-West Lifeco Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
Great-West Lifeco Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
CAD 0.555000
2024-12-03
2024-12-03
2024-12-31
Cash Dividend
quarterly
CAD:EUR 0.672113
CAD 0.555000
2024-08-30
2024-08-30
2024-09-27
Cash Dividend
quarterly
CAD:EUR 0.672125
CAD 0.555000
2024-05-31
2024-05-31
2024-06-28
Cash Dividend
quarterly
CAD:EUR 0.677854
CAD 0.555000
2024-02-28
2024-02-29
2024-03-28
Cash Dividend
quarterly
CAD:EUR 0.683225
* 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.
Great-West Lifeco's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Great-West Lifeco's Forward Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as
Forward Annual Dividend Yield
=
Forward Full Year Dividend
/
Current Share Price
=
1.49209086
/
31.20
=
4.78 %
Current Share Price is €31.20. Great-West Lifeco's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as €0.373022715 * 4 = €1.49209086.
* 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.
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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Great-West Lifeco provides life insurance, health insurance, retirement products, asset management, recordkeeping services, and reinsurance products in Canada, the United States, and Europe. The Canada business contributes approximately 31% of adjusted earnings and has leading market positions in group insurance, group retirement, and individual insurance. The company operates the second-largest recordkeeping business under the Empower brand in the United States, with an earnings contribution from the country approximating 26%. Great-West Lifeco also offers various products across Europe markets with a strong presence in the UK, Ireland, and Germany. The Europe segment contributed around 21% of adjusted earnings and the reinsurance business accounts for around 22% of adjusted earnings.
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