Ageas Dividend yield

Ageas is part of Life Insurance business, which is part of Financials industry. Ageas is a company from Belgium and Lux., and his stocks are publicly traded.

Ageas stock dividend

Ageas paid a total dividend of 552 million EUR last year, for a market value of 6,749 millions (Market Cap 6,048 millions). Ageas dividend per share is 3.00 EUR, and his stock market price 36.68 EUR.

According to the chart below, where dividend yield is displayed, Ageas has a dividend yield of 8.18%, which is higher than the amount offered by both the market average and companies from Belgium and Lux.. It is also bigger than average of Financials industry. This high dividend yield might be a sign to worry about the future of the company so deeper analysis is needed.

In addition, you should compare Ageas stocks dividend with other Life Insurance companies or other of the high Belgium and Lux. dividend stocks list.

Ageas Dividend Payout

About the ability of Ageas to maintain his current dividend of EUR 3.00 per share, an amount that accounts for 8.18%, we should study its payout ratio both on earnings and on cash-flows (see chart below). Ageas payout on ernings is currently 51.55%, which is higher than the market average, and companies of Financials industry, which are 39.34% and 46.18% respectively. Both figures show that Ageas can have problems to keep with his present dividend yield.

The payout on earnings should be complemented with the payout on cash flow since it is this last amount the one which can be distributed to shareholders. Cash flow per share of Ageas is EUR -3.19 per share, which is lower than the dividend per share paid by the company of EUR 3.00, so the company does not generate enough cash to maintain his dividend in the future.

The following figure shows payout ratios over earnings and cashflow of Ageas, compared againt world market average, Belgium and Lux. companies, Financials industry and Life Insurance sector companies.

Ageas Dividend History

Below you will find a table with the historical evolution of Ageas's dividend stock, both in percentage and in EUR, its Payout on Earnings and the number of shares (in case there is an split, number shares altered the dividend per share).

Year	Yield	EUR	Paypout	Shares*
Present	8.18%	3.00	51.55%	184
2022	10.26%	4.25	87.27%	184
2021	5.82%	2.65	41.28%	187
2020	6.08%	2.65	48.01%	187
2019	4.18%	2.20	49.66%	194
2018	5.34%	2.10	61.40%	197
2017	4.18%	1.70	395.35%	202
2016	4.69%	1.65	40.74%	208
2015	3.74%	1.55	61.75%	215

*In millions

Then you can see the evolution of Ageas dividend stock, and compare it with the average of Belgium and Lux. stocks and that of the Life Insurance stocks.

Ageas Stock performance

Finally, last moth Ageas showed a return of -4.80% compared to a worldwide -2.49% average, and a -3.03% of Financials firms. Over the last year, the company obtained a -9.40% versus a worldwide performance of a 8.71%. More detailed information can be seen in the following graph for Belgium and Lux. and Life Insurance firms.