Aflac (WBO:AFL) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 3.55 (As of Apr. 25, 2024)

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What is Aflac 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Aflac's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 3.55.

The historical rank and industry rank for Aflac's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % or its related term are showing as below:

WBO:AFL' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 3.18 Med: 3.89 Max: 6.9
Current: 3.55

During the past 13 years, Aflac's highest Yield on Cost was 6.90. The lowest was 3.18. And the median was 3.89.

WBO:AFL's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than
54.75% of 400 companies
in the Insurance industry
Industry Median: 3.84 vs WBO:AFL: 3.55

Competitive Comparison of Aflac's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Insurance - Life subindustry, Aflac'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.

Aflac's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Insurance Industry

For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, Aflac's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Aflac's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.

Aflac 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.

Therefore, Yield-on-Cost of Aflac is calculated as

Yield-on-Cost

Dividend Yield %

Dividend Growth Rate)^5

Aflac (WBO:AFL) 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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Aflac (WBO:AFL) Business Description

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Address

1932 Wynnton Road, Columbus, GA, USA, 31999

Website

https://www.aflac.com

Aflac Inc offers supplemental health insurance and life insurance in the two largest insurance markets in the world, the U.S. and Japan. In addition to its cancer policies, the company has broadened its product offerings to include accident, disability, and long-term-care insurance. It markets its products through independent distributors, selling most of its policies directly to consumers at their places of work.