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GL Dividend History, Yield & Dates
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GLGlobe Life Inc.
Financial Services / Insurance - Life
Low Priority
In Line With Peers
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- Value59
- Quality52
- Risk resilience56
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GL Dividend answer
Globe Life Inc. (GL) pays a quarterly dividend. Forward dividend yield: 0.83%, or $1.32 a year at the latest dividend. Trailing 12-month yield: 0.79%, from $1.26 per share paid over the past year. Its latest dividend was $0.33 per share. Latest ex-dividend date: Oct 5, 2026. Payment date: Oct 30, 2026. Next dividend status: not announced.
GL Dividend Snapshot
Yield, annual dividend, latest payment, payout coverage, growth, and dividend history are emphasized for this stock. Yield methodology is labeled separately from payout coverage.
Next GL Dividend Date
When GL next goes ex-dividend, the amount where it has been declared, and whether that state is announced, projected or not yet known.
Next GL dividend
GL's next dividend has not yet been announced. The latest completed dividend was $0.33 per share. Data last checked: Oct 10, 2026.
Latest GL Dividend Dates
Review the latest dividend, yield, available trailing-year income, and coverage context before treating income as durable.
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GL Dividend History
Recent per-share dividends show payment cadence. Trailing-year and growth reads are shown only when the available rows cover a complete comparable window.
Dividend reliability
Recent dividend payments are summarized as cadence and coverage signals. Exact rows remain below for auditability.
GL Annual Dividend History
GL Dividend Growth
Latest row amount $0.33, event yield 76.05%.
This page labels the feed as recent history when multi-year rows, payment dates, or record dates are incomplete. Announced calendar dates are separated from completed dividend history.
Dividend growth
- 5-year regular dividend CAGR
- 7.38%
- Cohort rank
- #170
- Cohort standing
- Top half
- Financial Services rank
- #37
- 2020 regular DPS
- $0.736
- 2025 regular DPS
- $1.050
- Absolute change
- $0.315
- Years increased
- 5
- Years reduced
- 0
GL's split-adjusted regular dividend per share grew at 7.38% a year from 2020 through 2025, ranking #170 among US dividend-paying corporations that never cut the payout in AlgovestIQ's study.
Split-adjusted regular dividends per share, 2020–2025, excluding special dividends. Research as of Sep 19, 2026.
GL Dividend Yield
How GL's trailing 12-month dividend yield is calculated, and what it does and does not account for.
Yield methodology
GL's trailing dividend yield is the regular dividends paid over the last twelve months divided by the latest available share price. Payouts classified as special or supplemental are excluded, because a one-off payment is not recurring income. It is a backward-looking measure and is not the same as a forward yield, which annualises the most recent declared payment instead.
Dividend coverage
Coverage is read from earnings and cash flow rather than from the yield. A payout ratio leaves room, or does not; free cash flow either covers the payment, or the company is funding it another way. These are inputs to a judgement, not a guarantee of future payments.
Recent GL dividend payments
| Ex-date | Dividend | Adjusted | Yield at ex-date | Frequency | TTM adjusted | Declared | Record date | Payment date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 2026 | $0.33 | $0.33 | 76.05% | Quarterly | $1.26 | Aug 5, 2026 | Oct 5, 2026 | Oct 30, 2026 |
| Jul 6, 2026 | $0.33 | $0.33 | 67.80% | Quarterly | $1.20 | Apr 30, 2026 | Jul 6, 2026 | Jul 31, 2026 |
| Apr 2, 2026 | $0.33 | $0.33 | 79.94% | Quarterly | $1.14 | Feb 26, 2026 | Apr 3, 2026 | May 1, 2026 |
| Jan 5, 2026 | $0.27 | $0.27 | 76.80% | Quarterly | $1.08 | Nov 6, 2025 | Jan 5, 2026 | Jan 30, 2026 |
| Oct 3, 2025 | $0.27 | $0.27 | 76.32% | Quarterly | $1.05 | Aug 7, 2025 | Oct 3, 2025 | Oct 31, 2025 |
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| Jul 3, 2025 | $0.27 | $0.27 | 84.16% | Quarterly | $1.02 | Apr 24, 2025 | Jul 3, 2025 | Aug 1, 2025 |
| Apr 3, 2025 | $0.27 | $0.27 | 77.64% | Quarterly | $0.99 | Feb 27, 2025 | Apr 3, 2025 | May 1, 2025 |
| Jan 6, 2025 | $0.24 | $0.24 | 86.33% | Quarterly | $0.96 | Nov 15, 2024 | Jan 6, 2025 | Jan 31, 2025 |
| Oct 4, 2024 | $0.24 | $0.24 | 88.72% | Quarterly | $0.945 | Aug 8, 2024 | Oct 4, 2024 | Nov 1, 2024 |
| Jul 5, 2024 | $0.24 | $0.24 | 1.14% | Quarterly | $0.93 | May 6, 2024 | Jul 5, 2024 | Aug 1, 2024 |
| Apr 4, 2024 | $0.24 | $0.24 | 83.10% | Quarterly | $0.915 | Mar 18, 2024 | Apr 5, 2024 | May 1, 2024 |
| Jan 4, 2024 | $0.225 | $0.225 | 73.64% | Quarterly | $0.90 | Nov 14, 2023 | Jan 5, 2024 | Feb 1, 2024 |
| Oct 5, 2023 | $0.225 | $0.225 | 80.17% | Quarterly | $0.8825 | Sep 12, 2023 | Oct 6, 2023 | Nov 1, 2023 |
| Jul 3, 2023 | $0.225 | $0.225 | 78.41% | Quarterly | $0.8645 | Jun 21, 2023 | Jul 5, 2023 | Aug 1, 2023 |
| Mar 31, 2023 | $0.225 | $0.225 | 76.94% | Quarterly | $0.8465 | Feb 23, 2023 | Apr 3, 2023 | May 1, 2023 |
| Jan 5, 2023 | $0.2075 | $0.2075 | 68.97% | Quarterly | $0.829 | Dec 13, 2022 | Jan 6, 2023 | Feb 1, 2023 |
| Oct 6, 2022 | $0.207 | $0.207 | 76.83% | Quarterly | $0.8195 | Sep 7, 2022 | Oct 7, 2022 | Nov 1, 2022 |
| Jul 1, 2022 | $0.207 | $0.207 | 80.78% | Quarterly | $0.8105 | May 17, 2022 | Jul 5, 2022 | Aug 1, 2022 |
| Apr 1, 2022 | $0.2075 | $0.2075 | 79.75% | Quarterly | $0.8015 | Mar 8, 2022 | Apr 4, 2022 | Apr 29, 2022 |
| Jan 6, 2022 | $0.198 | $0.198 | 80.01% | Quarterly | $0.792 | Nov 4, 2021 | Jan 7, 2022 | Feb 1, 2022 |
| Oct 1, 2021 | $0.198 | $0.198 | 86.57% | Quarterly | $0.7815 | Aug 23, 2021 | Oct 4, 2021 | Nov 1, 2021 |
| Jul 1, 2021 | $0.198 | $0.198 | 79.82% | Quarterly | $0.7715 | May 3, 2021 | Jul 5, 2021 | Jul 30, 2021 |
| Apr 1, 2021 | $0.198 | $0.198 | 77.11% | Quarterly | $0.761 | Mar 26, 2021 | Apr 5, 2021 | Apr 30, 2021 |
| Jan 7, 2021 | $0.1875 | $0.1875 | 77.40% | Quarterly | $0.7505 | Dec 21, 2020 | Jan 8, 2021 | Feb 1, 2021 |
| Oct 2, 2020 | $0.188 | $0.188 | 91.04% | Quarterly | $0.7355 | Aug 21, 2020 | Oct 5, 2020 | Oct 30, 2020 |
| Jul 2, 2020 | $0.1875 | $0.1875 | 99.27% | Quarterly | $0.72 | May 15, 2020 | Jul 6, 2020 | Jul 31, 2020 |
| Apr 2, 2020 | $0.1875 | $0.1875 | 1.05% | Quarterly | $0.705 | Mar 5, 2020 | Apr 3, 2020 | May 1, 2020 |
| Jan 2, 2020 | $0.1725 | $0.1725 | 65.37% | Quarterly | $0.69 | Nov 18, 2019 | Jan 3, 2020 | Jan 31, 2020 |
| Oct 3, 2019 | $0.1725 | $0.1725 | 73.12% | Quarterly | $0.6775 | Sep 3, 2019 | Oct 4, 2019 | Nov 1, 2019 |
| Jul 3, 2019 | $0.1725 | $0.1725 | 72.57% | Quarterly | $0.665 | May 2, 2019 | Jul 5, 2019 | Aug 1, 2019 |
| Apr 4, 2019 | $0.1725 | $0.1725 | 77.16% | Quarterly | $0.6525 | Mar 22, 2019 | Apr 5, 2019 | May 1, 2019 |
| Jan 3, 2019 | $0.16 | $0.16 | 85.32% | Quarterly | $0.64 | Nov 16, 2018 | Jan 4, 2019 | Feb 1, 2019 |
| Oct 4, 2018 | $0.16 | $0.16 | 71.62% | Quarterly | $0.63 | Aug 9, 2018 | Oct 5, 2018 | Nov 1, 2018 |
| Jul 3, 2018 | $0.16 | $0.16 | 75.54% | Quarterly | $0.62 | May 11, 2018 | Jul 5, 2018 | Aug 1, 2018 |
| Apr 2, 2018 | $0.16 | $0.16 | 74.21% | Quarterly | $0.61 | Mar 1, 2018 | Apr 3, 2018 | May 1, 2018 |
| Jan 4, 2018 | $0.15 | $0.15 | 66.15% | Quarterly | $0.60 | Nov 13, 2017 | Jan 5, 2018 | Feb 1, 2018 |
| Oct 5, 2017 | $0.15 | $0.15 | 73.01% | Quarterly | $0.59 | Aug 28, 2017 | Oct 6, 2017 | Nov 1, 2017 |
| Jun 30, 2017 | $0.15 | $0.15 | 75.82% | Quarterly | — | May 19, 2017 | Jul 5, 2017 | Aug 1, 2017 |
| Mar 30, 2017 | $0.15 | $0.15 | 73.86% | Quarterly | — | Feb 28, 2017 | Apr 3, 2017 | May 1, 2017 |
| Jan 4, 2017 | $0.14 | $0.14 | 75.02% | Quarterly | — | Nov 11, 2016 | Jan 6, 2017 | Feb 1, 2017 |
| Oct 5, 2016 | $0.14 | $0.14 | 85.75% | Quarterly | — | Sep 8, 2016 | Oct 7, 2016 | Nov 1, 2016 |
Dividend yield is only the starting point. Pair the current distribution with payout ratio, free cash flow coverage, balance-sheet risk, and the history of actual payments before treating income as durable.
A higher yield is more useful when earnings and free cash flow cover the distribution. A yield caused by a falling stock price can be a warning, not a bargain.
Stable or rising payments can indicate capital return discipline. Flat, skipped, or missing payments should be read with earnings and cash flow before drawing conclusions.
A low payout ratio can leave room for growth; a high payout ratio can indicate limited cushion. Cyclical companies need more room than stable defensive businesses.
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GL Dividends FAQ
Does GL pay a dividend?
Globe Life Inc. (GL) has covered dividend payment history on this page, including a latest dividend of $0.33 per share and a quarterly cadence based on available events.
What is GL's dividend yield?
GL's trailing dividend yield is 0.79%. Trailing dividend yield equals dividends paid over the trailing 12 months divided by the latest available share price.
When is GL's next dividend?
GL's next dividend has not been announced in the current AlgovestIQ snapshot. The latest completed dividend row remains available in the history table when covered data exists.
When is GL's ex-dividend date?
GL's latest covered ex-dividend date is Oct 5, 2026. Future ex-dividend dates are shown only when announced or explicitly projected.
How has GL's dividend changed?
GL's one-year dividend growth is 20.00% based on comparable covered dividend history.