If a company's dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout ratio of Kansas City Life Insurance Co is 0.89, which seems too high.
During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of Kansas City Life Insurance Co was 8.12. The lowest was 0.25. And the median was 0.47.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was -19.70% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was -12.40% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was -4.70% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Kansas City Life Insurance Co was 10.10% per year. The lowest was -19.70% per year. And the median was 5.10% 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.
Kansas City Life Insurance Co Dividend Yield % Historical Data
* 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.
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Kansas City Life Insurance Co Dividend Yield % Chart
Competitive Comparison of Kansas City Life Insurance Co's Dividend Yield %
For the Insurance - Life subindustry, Kansas City Life Insurance Co'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.
Kansas City Life Insurance Co's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Insurance Industry
For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, Kansas City Life Insurance Co's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Kansas City Life Insurance Co's Dividend Yield % falls into.
Kansas City Life Insurance Co Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
Kansas City Life Insurance Co Recent Full-Year* Dividend History
Amount
Ex-date
Record Date
Pay Date
Type
Frequency
Forex Rate
USD 0.140000
2024-11-07
2024-11-07
2024-11-13
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.140000
2024-08-01
2024-08-01
2024-08-07
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.140000
2024-05-01
2024-05-02
2024-05-08
Cash Dividend
quarterly
USD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.140000
2024-01-31
2024-02-01
2024-02-07
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.
* 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.
Kansas City Life Insurance Co (OTCPK:KCLI) 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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Kansas City Life Insurance Co Business Description
Kansas City Life Insurance Co is a Missouri-domiciled insurance company providing individual life, annuity, and group products through general agencies located throughout the United States. The company operates its business in three segments; The Individual Insurance segment consists of individual insurance products for Kansas City Life, Grange Life, and the assumed reinsurance transactions, The Group Insurance segment consists of sales of group life, dental, vision, disability, accident, and critical illness products, and The Old American segment consists of individual insurance products designed largely as final expense products, out of which the Individual insurance segment derives the maximum revenue. The company makes majority of its revenue from Individual Insurance Segment.
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