Lincoln National Corporation: dividend

LNCNYSEFinancial services · Life Insurance

Price

$41.96

November 13, 2026Market cap $8.0B

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What Ploutos Investor adds for Lincoln National

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  • The full history: 17 fiscal years, from 2009
  • The estimated fair value, with its range and its certainty
  • The full analysis, 18 a month
  • More questions to the chat on its filings
  • Excel with every year
  • An email when it reports, changes its dividend or an officer buys

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Notes on these figures

  • The reported profit is far larger than a business usually earns on its market value, which usually means one-off or accounting gains. We leave out the P/E and the earnings yield.

Yield

4.29%

$1.80 per share over the last 12 months, at a price of $41.96.

Forward yield4.29%($0.45 a quarter)

FCF coverThe year's free cash flow was 2.0 times the dividend it paid.
2.0x
Payout11% of the last 12 months' earnings went to the dividend.
11%
No cutWithout a cut since 2010, the first year of our figures: the run may be longer.
15+
5-year growthAverage yearly growth over the last five years.
+2.1%

The dividend year by year

What it paid per share each fiscal year, how much that changed, and the yield it gave at the price at year end.

+2.1% a year over 5 years
  • 2025
    Dividend per share$1.80
  • 2024
    Dividend per share$1.80
  • 2023
    Dividend per share$1.80

Each fiscal year's dividend as the company states it in its filings, adjusted for stock splits. Special dividends count in the year they were paid.

The dividend year by year

LNC's dividend per share each fiscal year, from 2009 to 2022, 14 more fiscal years

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Everything it returns to shareholders

The dividend is one way. The other is buybacks, which reduce the number of shares.

Dividend yield

4.29%

$42.90 a year per $1,000 of shares

Buybacks

–

The share count rose by 11.6% over the year, so more shares were issued than bought back.

Total returned

4.29%

$42.90 a year per $1,000 of shares

LNC beside the other dividend payers

Where it stands among this week's 968 dividend payers, and in the Financial services sector. The dot is the company, the white line the median.

Dividend yield4.29%

Above 86% of the payers · median 2.03%

In Financial services: above 92%, median 2.29%.

Covered by free cash flow2.0x

Above 28% of the payers · median 3.6x

In Financial services: above 10%, median 5.4x.

Dividend growth, 5 years+2.1%

Above 22% of the payers · median +6.3%

In Financial services: above 25%, median +5.6%.

Share of earnings paid out11%

Above 10% of the payers · median 35%

In Financial services: above 8%, median 31%.

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The full analysis

What do Lincoln National's filings show?

The dividend is one part of Lincoln National's picture. The full Ploutos AI analysis reads everything the company has filed and shows what stands behind it, with a source for every figure.

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  • Earnings quality, debt and red flags
  • Insider and institutional moves
  • The case for and the case against

Questions about LNC's dividend

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What is LNC's dividend yield?

Lincoln National paid $1.80 per share over the last 12 months. At a price of $41.96, that is a yield of 4.29%.

Does LNC cover its dividend with the cash it makes?

Yes, over the last year. Lincoln National's free cash flow was 2.0 times the dividend it paid.

Has LNC ever cut its dividend?

Lincoln National has not cut its dividend for 15+ years, in the 17 years of figures we hold.

How much has LNC's dividend grown?

Lincoln National's dividend per share changed by +2.1% a year on average over the last five years.

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The figures come from the company's SEC filings and the share price, and describe what it has reported. They are not a score or a fair value.