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I Hate This Company's Products... but Not Its Dividend

Marc Lichtenfeld, Chief Income Strategist, The Oxford Club

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Corebridge Financial (NYSE: CRBG) sells two of my least favorite financial products: life insurance and annuities.

I have no problem with term life insurance. Many families need it in order to protect their loved ones. But other types of life insurance that are set up as investments are too costly. I've written extensively about the subject here in Wealthy Retirement.

And in my book You Don't Have to Drive an Uber in Retirement, the chapter on annuities is titled "The Worst Investment You Can Make."

So I'm no fan of these products.

But annuities and life insurance are cash cows for the companies that sell them.

Corebridge uses some of that cash to pay a $0.23 per share quarterly dividend, which comes out to a 3.8% yield. Last year, the company also paid out an additional $1.78 in special dividends.

Can it keep peddling its annuities and insurance policies hard enough to maintain its quarterly dividend?

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Corebridge wasn't publicly traded until September 2022, so it doesn't have a long track record, but we still have plenty of data points we can use.

Since Corebridge is an insurance company, we use net investment income to measure cash flow. The company collects premiums and fees, invests the money, makes payouts to customers when necessary, and keeps the difference. That difference is its net investment income.

Wall Street does not have any net investment income estimates, but over the 12 months ending in September (results from the fourth quarter of 2023 have not been released yet), the company's net investment income totaled $9.6 billion.

That's up significantly from $8.8 billion in the 2022 calendar year.

Results for all of 2023 should be released in mid-February, and I fully expect 2023's numbers to be much higher than 2022's.

But even if the numbers are higher, that doesn't automatically mean Corebridge will be able to afford its dividend.

Let's take a look at the final piece of the puzzle: the all-important payout ratio...

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