Assurant Dividend yield

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

Assurant stock dividend

Assurant paid a total dividend of 148 million USD last year, for a market value of 7,384 millions (Market Cap 7,351 millions). Assurant dividend per share is 2.80 USD, and his stock market price 139.33 USD.

According to the chart below, where dividend yield is displayed, Assurant has a dividend yield of 2.01%, lower than the amount offered by both the market average and companies from USA. It is also lower than average of Financials industry. This low dividend yield might has several explanations: company overpriced, expanding their business,...

In addition, you should compare Assurant stocks dividend with other Life Insurance companies or other of the high USA dividend stocks list.

Assurant Dividend Payout

About the ability of Assurant to maintain his current dividend of USD 2.80 per share, an amount that accounts for 2.01%, we should study its payout ratio both on earnings and on cash-flows (see chart below). Assurant payout on ernings is currently 42.81%, which is higher than the market average, but lower than companies of Financials industry, which are 39.34% and 46.18% respectively. Both figures show that Assurant should not have problems to continue paying his dividend.

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 Assurant is USD 11.24 per share, which is higher than the dividend per share paid by the company of USD 2.80, so the company generates enough cash to maintain his dividend in the future.

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

Assurant Dividend History

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

Year	Yield	USD	Paypout	Shares*
Present	2.01%	2.80	42.81%	53
2022	2.24%	2.80	10.30%	53
2021	1.75%	2.73	31.34%	57
2020	1.94%	2.64	36.41%	59
2019	1.92%	2.52	46.93%	61
2018	2.68%	2.40	35.14%	62
2017	2.22%	2.24	18.67%	54
2016	2.46%	2.12	55.21%	60
2015	2.34%	2.00	24.10%	67

*In millions

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

Assurant Stock performance

Finally, last moth Assurant showed a return of 3.60% compared to a worldwide -2.49% average, and a -3.03% of Financials firms. Over the last year, the company obtained a -12.10% versus a worldwide performance of a 8.71%. More detailed information can be seen in the following graph for USA and Life Insurance firms.