Aflac, through its subsidiaries, provides financial protection to people worldwide. Co.'s principal business is supplemental health and life insurance products in the United States (U.S.) and Japan. Co.'s insurance business consists of two reporting segments: Aflac Japan, which provides third sector insurance products are designed to help consumers pay for medical and nonmedical costs that are not reimbursed under Japan's national health insurance system; and Aflac U.S., which designs its United States insurance products to provide supplemental coverage for people who already have primary medical or primary insurance coverage. The AFL stock yearly return is shown above.
The yearly return on the AFL stock yearly return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the annual return over the calendar year 2014 for the given stock.
When performing this calculation it is important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's annual return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon.
One way to factor dividends into the return is simply to count them as cash — we don't do
that here. Instead, our website aims to empower investors
by performing the AFL annual return calculation with any dividends reinvested as applicable (on ex-dates).
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