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China Life Insurance Company Limited is an insurance-life business based in the US. China Life Insurance Company shares (LFC) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. China Life Insurance Company employs 104,160 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around 0.00.
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| Latest market close | $9.02 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $7.85 - $10.53 |
| 50-day moving average | $8.53 |
| 200-day moving average | $9.05 |
| Wall St. target price | $11.86 |
| PE ratio | 6.2639 |
| Dividend yield | $0.64 (5.49%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $1.44 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $9.02 from 2022-01-25
| 1 week (2022-01-19) | 1.81% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2021-12-23) | 8.15% |
| 3 months (2021-10-26) | 0.22% |
| 6 months (2021-07-26) | 6.75% |
| 1 year (2021-01-26) | -19.18% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2020-01-24) | -30.62% |
| 3 years (2019-01-25) | 12.52 |
| 5 years (2017-01-26) | 13.83 |
Valuing China Life Insurance Company stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of China Life Insurance Company's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
China Life Insurance Company's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 6x. In other words, China Life Insurance Company shares trade at around 6x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
China Life Insurance Company's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 0.3914. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into China Life Insurance Company's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
China Life Insurance Company's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $78 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a China Life Insurance Company's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $848 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 8.79% |
| Gross profit TTM | $118.7 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 1.06% |
| Return on equity TTM | 11.76% |
| Profit margin | 6.1% |
| Book value | $83.29 |
| Market capitalisation | $106.4 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 105.09% of net profits
Recently China Life Insurance Company has paid out, on average, around 105.09% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 5.49% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), China Life Insurance Company shareholders could enjoy a 5.49% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In China Life Insurance Company's case, that would currently equate to about $0.64 per share.
China Life Insurance Company's payout ratio would broadly be considered high, and as such this stock could appeal to those looking to generate an income. Bear in mind however that companies should normally also look to re-invest a decent amount of net profits to ensure future growth.
China Life Insurance Company's most recent dividend payout was on 1 September 2021. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 5 July 2021 (the "ex-dividend date").
China Life Insurance Company's shares were split on a 3:1 basis on 26 May 2015. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 3 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your China Life Insurance Company shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 66.7% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for China Life Insurance Company shares which in turn could have impacted China Life Insurance Company's share price.
Over the last 12 months, China Life Insurance Company's shares have ranged in value from as little as $7.85 up to $10.527. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while China Life Insurance Company's is 1.0963. This would suggest that China Life Insurance Company's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
China Life Insurance Company Limited, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a life insurance company in the People's Republic of China. It operates in four segments: Life Insurance Business, Health Insurance Business, Accident Insurance Business, and Other Businesses. The company offers individual and group life, annuity products, accident, and health insurance products. It is also involved in the third-party asset management, annuity funds, fund management, investment management, pension security, occupational pension, reinsurance, and health management businesses. China Life Insurance Company Limited sells its products through agents, direct sales representatives, and dedicated and non-dedicated agencies. The company was founded in 1949 and is based in Beijing, the People's Republic of China. China Life Insurance Company Limited is a subsidiary of China Life Insurance (Group) Company Limited.
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