Manulife Financial Corporation (MFC) Dividends
Dividend Yield and Dividend History Highlights
- Over the past 6 years of historical data, MFC has returned more capital to shareholders through its dividend issuances than 94.63% of other dividend-paying US stocks.
- In terms of debt burden relative to earnings, MFC has an EBITDA to net debt ratio of 7,639,000,000, ranking above 98.76% stocks in our set (note that its net debt is negative, meaning it has more cash than debt).
- MFC is producing more trailing twelve month cash flow than 96.79% of US dividend stocks.
- If you want to include this stock in your dividend portfolio, here are some dividend stocks that are NOT correlated with MFC that may be suitable potential portfolio mates: LITE, HTLD, EVI, DLR and LEJU.
MFC Price Forecast Based on Dividend Discount Model
| Current Price | DDM Fair Value Target: | Forecasted Gain: |
| $18.31 | $28.87 | 42.54% |
A technique commonly used by dividend investors to value dividend-issuing stocks is the Dividend Discount Model (DDM), which seeks to determine a fair share price based on the dividend provided by the company relative to a number of other company-specific factors. As for MFC, the DDM model generated by StockNews estimates a return of positive 42.54% in comparison to its current price. Digging deeper, the aspects of Manulife Financial Corp's dividend discount model that we found most interesting were:
- MFC's market cap is about 39 billion US dollars -- this puts the stock in the large-sized market cap class, and its dividend yield is greater than 90.28% of dividend yielding stocks in the same market cap class.
- If we compare the valuation opportunity a dividend discount model provides relative to other dividend stocks in the Financial Services sector, Manulife Financial Corp's expected return of 42.54% is higher than 78.6% of its fellow sector mates.
- Compared to all dividend issuing stocks in our set, MFC has a discount rate lower than 78.6% of them (a lower discount rate is associated with lower risk).
- In comparison to other dividend stocks in the Financial Services sector, MFC is growing its dividends at a faster rate than about only 10.57% of them.
MFC Dividend Chart
MFC Dividend History
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MFC Dividends vs. Peers
MFC's dividend yield currently ranks #4 of 41 vs. its peers in the Insurance - Life category.
Looking for More Information on MFC dividends?
Want to do more research on Manulife Financial Corp's dividends? Try the links below:Manulife Financial Corp Common Stock (MFC) Dividend History | Nasdaq
Dividend History for Manulife Financial Corp (MFC) - Dividend Investor
Manulife Financial Corp (MFC) Dividend History - Seeking Alpha