From the point of view of insurance companies, it is simple: higher risk
means higher payout.
This also
means a higher payout at claim time, but for some drivers this may be worth it.
That means higher payout amounts for the same category of accident; some categories may not even be covered by the plan if your rates are too low.
This is especially common with lucrative defined benefit plans and particularly emphasized by today's low interest rates (low rates
mean higher payouts that are often more than what you can otherwise transfer to your locked - in RRSP).
Not exact matches
Possible reforms could include raising the full retirement age for Social Security to 70 for workers who are currently under age 40; cutting benefits; increasing payroll taxes on workers; increasing Medicare premiums; and making Social Security benefits more progressive —
meaning cutting benefits for
high - income workers, while preserving
payouts for low - income earners.
This
means utilities companies are among the most defensive investments with solid cash flows and
high dividend
payouts.
Among HP's peer group companies, HP executives have a
higher percentage of performance - based pay, which generally
means smaller bonuses and lower overall compensation in years of low performance and
higher bonuses and long - term incentive
payouts in years of exceptional performance, reflective of the performance achieved.
A
high valuation and slim
payouts mean investors watch little else.
Higher payout means that the chance of making handsome profits are higher on winning t
Higher payout means that the chance of making handsome profits are
higher on winning t
higher on winning trades.
This
means opening up multiple accounts at different sportsbooks so you can place your bet at the book offering the best number and the
highest payout.
The maximum bonus
payout is # 4,000, which
means you can earn a 25 % bonus on # 12,000 of savings, and benefit from the ISA's
high rate of annual interest rate too.
A
high payout ratio may
mean that the company is sharing more of its earnings with its shareholders.
She says that lower
payouts during a policyholder's lifetime would
mean a
higher death
payout.
Lower
payout ratios
mean safer dividends, and
high payout ratios
mean that the dividends have a
high probability of being cut.
When a company's
payout ratio is
high, it tends also to
mean the company has less money retained to weather the storms that come from time to time.
So, when investing, you not only want to invest in a company that has a
high dividend, but you want to see a low
payout ratio as well, since that
means they are more likely to continue to be able to pay the nice dividend.
A company that pays out all of its earnings would have a
payout ratio of 100 percent, while a
higher payout ratio
means that the company is paying out more than it is actually earning.
While different industries have different appropriate
payout ratios, typically
payout ratios
higher than 70 % indicate a dividend cut may be on its way, while below 70 %
means the dividend is likely sustainable and there are additional earnings to support further dividend increases.
This, to us,
means that the reinvestment they're making is going to make the business more and more valuable over time and should
mean higher and
higher dividend
payouts over time, assuming they keep their dividend policy roughly the same.
If a company has a
high dividend
payout ratio, it
means that it pays greater percentage of its earnings to its shareholders.
This
means that other carriers may offer a lower premium for the life insurance policy and also a
higher payout for the annuity.
A low dividend
payout ratio
means that a company is returning a small portion of its earnings to investors, while a
high payout ratio implies that a company uses the majority of its profit for dividends instead of for future growth.
Now, if ROA is going up you really do not need the same amount of capital in the business itself, which
means that dividend
payout ratios can go much
higher than people think.
However, concerns over the future health of the movie theater industry,
high tenant concentration, and growing risks of a liquidity trap that cuts off its growth potential
mean that EPR Properties is still a somewhat riskier stock, despite the safety of its
payout today.
A consistently
high payout ratio may
mean the company doesn't have favorable places to invest its money for future growth of earnings and dividends.
This
means that
payouts for these policies are going to be
higher than those for actual cash value plans.
This
means that your more expensive items will be insured for a
higher amount and you can guarantee a
higher payout.
This
means that they
payouts that you will be receiving from insurers may not be as
high as the purchase value of your possessions.