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Over the past 10 years The Travelers Companies Inc (NYSE:TRV) has returned an average of 3.00% per year from dividend payouts. The stock currently pays out a dividend yield ofRead More...
Dividend stocks outperform non-dividend-paying stocks over the long run. It happens in good markets and bad, and the benefit of dividends can be quite striking: Dividend payments have made up ...
The following video is part of our "Motley Fool Conversations" series, in which analyst John Reeves discusses topics from across the investing world.Travelers is a well-run insurance company with ...
The Travelers Insurance Company was founded in Hartford by James G. Batterson, a stone contractor [12] who became aware for the first time of accident insurance for travelers (i.e., an early form of travel insurance) while traveling in England in 1859 from Leamington to London. [13]
The company spun off its Travelers Property and Casualty insurance underwriting business in 2002. [41] The spin-off was prompted by the insurance unit's drag on Citigroup stock price because Travelers earnings were more seasonal and vulnerable to large disasters and events such as the September 11 attacks. It was also difficult to sell ...
The company primarily sells term life insurance, [1] as well as other financial services including auto and home insurance, mutual funds, and credit monitoring. [ 46 ] [ 8 ] In 2010, Primerica was reported to have over 100,000 representatives selling the company's financial products, with individual earnings averaging $5,156 per year. [ 4 ]
The company published one of the more encouraging sets of quarterly figures so far this earnings season.
After the excellent results and Thursday's gains, the stock is now up 56.4% on the year. Travelers now trades at 16.6 times trailing earnings and about 2 times its adjusted book value per share .