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National Western Life Insurance

Past year was a negative year for National Western Life Insurance investors

The stock gained over the past 12 months at around 21 percent. Over the past 5 years the stock rose a massive 133,97 percent. National Western Life Insurance's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were relatively steady and moved between 666 million dollars and 650,8 million dollars. National Western Life Insurance's net incomes between 2011 and 2015 were very volatile and moved between 55,63 million dollars and 98,4 million dollars.

National Western Life Insurance primarily operates in the insurance sector. The global insurers gained around 4 percent worldwide over the last 10 years. As from 2011 the sector is 17 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-December 2016) there is a minus of 4 percent.

The American company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. Over the past 5 years National Western Life Insurance's dividend yield was at around 1,62 percent per year.

Healthy financed: not so much debt National Western Life Insurance

As per the end of 2015 the American company's balance sheet equaled 11,61 billion dollars. 10 billion dollars (86,12 percent of the total balance sheet) was financed by debt. Last year the insurer's price/earnings-ratio (PE) was around 10. So the investors valued the stock at 10 times 2015' earnings per share. We could say that based on her price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the American stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the market capitalization (the number of shares outstanding multiplied by the stock price) of the insurer equaled around 854,88 million dollars. At the end of 2015 the American company had around 3,44 million stocks listed.

All the company's financial reports are available here. More information about National Western Life Insurance can be found it's website. .