Great-West Lifeco Inc. (GWLIF)
Financials · PNK
Price as at 1 Oct 2026, 19:40 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Great-West Lifeco Inc. trades at $61.89, which is 101% below the $124.36 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a valuation model is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 63 out of 100, which is a moat, but not a deep one. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 19.9 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
GWLIF dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $1.46 | 3 |
| 2025 | $0.866 | 2 |
| 2024 | $1.62 | 4 |
| 2023 | $1.53 | 4 |
| 2022 | $1.51 | 4 |
| 2021 | $1.44 | 4 |
| 2020 | $1.32 | 4 |
| 2019 | $1.24 | 4 |
| 2018 | $1.20 | 4 |
| 2017 | $1.13 | 4 |
| 2016 | $0.785 | 3 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
About Great-West Lifeco Inc.
Great-West Lifeco Inc. engages in the life and health insurance, retirement savings, wealth and asset management, and reinsurance businesses in Canada, the United States, and Europe. The company offers life, accidental death and dismemberment, critical illness, disability, health and dental protection, and creditor insurance products; and retirement savings, income and annuity products, and other specialty products to individuals, families, businesses, and organizations. It also provides individual product solutions and employer-sponsored retirement savings plans that offers saving, investment, and advisory services; retail wealth management products and services to individuals, including individual retirement accounts and after-tax investment accounts; and wealth management, including payout annuity, equity release mortgages, pensions, and investments products. In addition, the company offers bulk and individual payout annuities, equity release mortgages, life bonds, retirement drawdown and pension, and group insurance products; savings and investments; and provides asset management services, such as pension schemes, insurance companies, wealth managers, fiduciary managers, and sovereign wealth funds, as well as manages assets for third-party institutional clients. Further, it provides life, annuity/longevity, mortgage surety, and property catastrophe reinsurance products. The company offers its products under the Empower, Canada Life, and Irish Life brand names. It distributes its products through a network of sales force, brokers, consultants, advisors, third-party administrators, financial institutions, employee benefit consultants, and multi-tied agents. The company was founded in 1979 and is based in Winnipeg, Canada. Great-West Lifeco Inc. is a subsidiary of Power Financial Corporation.
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GWLIF passes 6 of our 30 screens today
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GWLIF peers
The largest companies in the same industry (Insurance - Life), then in the same sector.
- PRU Prudential Financial, Inc.
- PUK Prudential plc
- MET-PA MetLife, Inc.
- DSY.JO Discovery Limited
- PRI Primerica, Inc.
- JXN Jackson Financial Inc.
- LNC Lincoln National Corporation
- SFGYY Sony Financial Group Inc.
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Common questions
Is Great-West Lifeco Inc. (GWLIF) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $124.36, GWLIF at $61.89 is 101% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
What is GWLIF's P/E ratio?
GWLIF trades at 19.9 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Does Great-West Lifeco Inc. (GWLIF) pay a dividend?
Yes. Great-West Lifeco Inc. yields 2.83% at the current share price. It has paid $1.46 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 12 complete calendar years. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.
Where does SteadyShares get its GWLIF data?
Fundamentals for GWLIF come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on PNK; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 1 Oct 2026, 19:40 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 100/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.