NYSE:LFC - China Life Insurance Stock Price, News, & Analysis

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

China Life Insurance announced an annual dividend on Tuesday, April 24th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, June 13th will be paid a dividend of $0.3185 per share on Thursday, August 16th. This represents a dividend yield of 2.3%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, June 12th. View China Life Insurance's Dividend History.

Shares of China Life Insurance split on Wednesday, May 27th 2015. The 3-1 split was announced on Monday, May 11th 2015. The newly created shares were distributed to shareholders after the closing bell 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.

China Life Insurance Co Ltd (NYSE:LFC) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October, 25th. The financial services provider reported $0.09 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.39 by $0.30. The financial services provider had revenue of $19.76 billion for the quarter. China Life Insurance had a net margin of 4.03% and a return on equity of 7.73%. View China Life Insurance's Earnings History.

China Life Insurance is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, March 28th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for China Life Insurance.

10 brokerages have issued twelve-month target prices for China Life Insurance's shares. Their forecasts range from $13.85 to $13.85. On average, they expect China Life Insurance's stock price to reach $13.85 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 9.6% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for China Life Insurance.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for China Life Insurance in the last year. There are currently 7 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for China Life Insurance.

News stories about LFC stock have been trending somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. China Life Insurance earned a media sentiment score of 1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the financial services provider a news buzz of 4.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days.

China Life Insurance saw a increase in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 1,659,406 shares, an increase of 64.9% from the January 15th total of 1,006,615 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 818,505 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.0 days. View China Life Insurance's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to China Life Insurance include AXA (AXAHY), Prudential Public (PUK), Metlife (MET), Prudential Financial (PRU), SWISS RE LTD/S (SSREY), Manulife Financial (MFC), Sun Life Financial (SLF), AVIVA PLC/ADR (AVVIY), HANNOVER RUECK/S (HVRRY), Legal & General Group (LGEN), AEGON (AEG), Lincoln National (LNC), Torchmark (TMK), Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) and Athene (ATH).

China Life Insurance's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Northern Trust Corp (0.04%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (0.03%), LMR Partners LLP (0.02%), OLD Mission Capital LLC (0.01%), Strs Ohio (0.01%) and Augustine Asset Management Inc. (0.01%).

LFC stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Two Sigma Investments LP, Jane Street Group LLC, First Trust Advisors LP, LMR Partners LLP, Susquehanna Fundamental Investments LLC, World Asset Management Inc, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP and Eqis Capital Management Inc..

LFC stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including OLD Mission Capital LLC, Northern Trust Corp, Strs Ohio, NINE MASTS CAPITAL Ltd, Natixis Advisors L.P., Henry James International Management Inc., Raymond James & Associates and Quadrant Capital Group LLC.

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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of LFC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $12.64.

China Life Insurance has a market capitalization of $71.45 billion and generates $105.48 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $4.77 billion in net income (profit) each year or $0.93 on an earnings per share basis. China Life Insurance employs 102,297 workers across the globe.

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

China Life Insurance's mailing address is 16 FINANCIAL STREET XICHENG DISTRICT, BEIJING F4, 100033. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 86-10-6363-3333 or via email at [email protected]