Dai-ichi Life Insura Dividend yield

Dai-ichi Life Insura is part of Life Insurance business, which is part of Financials industry. Dai-ichi Life Insura is a company from Japan, and his stocks are publicly traded.

Dai-ichi Life Insura stock dividend

Dai-ichi Life Insura paid a total dividend of 84,509 million JPY last year, for a market value of 2,665,896 millions (Market Cap 2,546,589 millions). Dai-ichi Life Insura dividend per share is 85.97 JPY, and his stock market price 2,712.00 JPY.

According to the chart below, where dividend yield is displayed, Dai-ichi Life Insura has a dividend yield of 3.17%, lower than the amount offered by both the market average and companies from Japan. 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 Dai-ichi Life Insura stocks dividend with other Life Insurance companies or other of the high Japan dividend stocks list.

Dai-ichi Life Insura Dividend Payout

About the ability of Dai-ichi Life Insura to maintain his current dividend of JPY 85.97 per share, an amount that accounts for 3.17%, we should study its payout ratio both on earnings and on cash-flows (see chart below). Dai-ichi Life Insura payout on ernings is currently 44.06%, 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 Dai-ichi Life Insura 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 Dai-ichi Life Insura is JPY -134.93 per share, which is lower than the dividend per share paid by the company of JPY 85.97, 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 Dai-ichi Life Insura, compared againt world market average, Japan companies, Financials industry and Life Insurance sector companies.

Dai-ichi Life Insura Dividend History

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

Year	Yield	JPY	Paypout	Shares*
Present	3.17%	85.97	44.06%	983
2022	2.77%	82.93	20.77%	1,025
2021	2.67%	62.10	18.15%	1,066
2020	3.99%	61.92	211.84%	1,110
2019	3.19%	57.96	29.35%	1,146
2018	2.91%	49.99	16.00%	1,165
2017	1.85%	42.99	18.50%	1,175
2016	3.44%	63.09	40.94%	1,177
2015	2.25%	47.93	38.03%	1,177

*In millions

Then you can see the evolution of Dai-ichi Life Insura dividend stock, and compare it with the average of Japan stocks and that of the Life Insurance stocks.

Dai-ichi Life Insura Stock performance

Finally, last moth Dai-ichi Life Insura showed a return of -6.70% compared to a worldwide -2.49% average, and a -3.03% of Financials firms. Over the last year, the company obtained a 12.70% versus a worldwide performance of a 8.71%. More detailed information can be seen in the following graph for Japan and Life Insurance firms.