NYSE:LFCChina Life Insurance Stock Price, Forecast & News

China Life Insurance's stock was trading at $10.78 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, LFC shares have decreased by 4.5% and is now trading at $10.29. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

3 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for China Life Insurance in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for China Life Insurance.

China Life Insurance is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, August 27th 2020. View our earnings forecast for China Life Insurance.

China Life Insurance Co Ltd (NYSE:LFC) announced its quarterly earnings data on Friday, April, 24th. The financial services provider reported $0.43 earnings per share for the quarter. The financial services provider earned $49.15 billion during the quarter. China Life Insurance had a net margin of 6.50% and a return on equity of 12.18%. View China Life Insurance's earnings history.

China Life Insurance announced an annual dividend on Wednesday, May 20th. Investors of record on Tuesday, July 7th will be given a dividend of $0.5134 per share on Wednesday, September 2nd. This represents a yield of 0.9%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, July 6th. This is a boost from China Life Insurance's previous annual dividend of $0.12. View China Life Insurance's dividend history.

China Life Insurance shares split before market open on Wednesday, May 27th 2015. The 3-1 split was announced on Monday, May 11th 2015. The newly issued shares were distributed to shareholders after the market closes on Tuesday, May 26th 2015. An investor that had 100 shares of China Life Insurance stock prior to the split would have 300 shares after the split.

3 analysts have issued 1 year target prices for China Life Insurance's shares. Their forecasts range from $20.30 to $20.30. On average, they anticipate China Life Insurance's stock price to reach $20.30 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 97.3% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for China Life Insurance.

Media headlines about LFC stock have trended extremely negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. China Life Insurance earned a media sentiment score of -4.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the financial services provider a news buzz of 5.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term. View the latest news aboutChina Life Insurance.

Some companies that are related to China Life Insurance include AXA (AXAHY), Prudential Public (PUK), Metlife (MET), SWISS RE LTD/S (SSREY), Manulife Financial (MFC), Prudential Financial (PRU), HANNOVER RUECK/S (HVRRY), Sun Life Financial (SLF), Legal & General Group (LGEN), AVIVA PLC/ADR (AVVIY), SONY FINL HOLDI/ADR (SNYFY), Globe Life (GL), AEGON (AEG), Lincoln National (LNC) and Voya Financial (VOYA). View all competitors.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other China Life Insurance investors own include Alibaba Group (BABA), Bank of America (BAC), Baidu (BIDU), Micron Technology (MU), Wells Fargo & Co (WFC), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Weyerhaeuser (WY), Caterpillar (CAT), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and NVIDIA (NVDA).

China Life Insurance trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "LFC."

China Life Insurance's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC (0.02%), Aperio Group LLC (0.01%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (0.01%), Morgan Stanley (0.01%), Morgan Stanley (0.01%) and Augustine Asset Management Inc. (0.00%).

LFC stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Aperio Group LLC, Wells Fargo & Company MN, Natixis Advisors L.P., NINE MASTS CAPITAL Ltd, Morgan Stanley, Morgan Stanley, Wetherby Asset Management Inc., and Atlas Capital Advisors LLC.

LFC stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Two Sigma Securities LLC, Augustine Asset Management Inc., First Trust Advisors LP, Trexquant Investment LP, Engineers Gate Manager LP, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Integrated Wealth Concepts LLC, and UBS Group AG.

Shares of LFC can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of LFC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $10.29.

China Life Insurance has a market capitalization of $58.17 billion and generates $105.55 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $8.43 billion in net income (profit) each year or $1.48 on an earnings per share basis. China Life Insurance employs 103,826 workers across the globe.

The official website for China Life Insurance is www.e-chinalife.com.

China Life Insurance's mailing address is 12F CHINA LIFE PLAZA A NO.16 FINANCIAL STREET XICHENG DISTRICT, BEIJING F4, 100033. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 86-10-6363-1191 or via email at [email protected]