
Four companies kept raising their dividends even as the pandemic hammered their sectors in 2020, and they are still raising today. The question is whether their yields and valuations make them worth buying right now.
Prudential Financial, Inc. is an American company whose subsidiaries provide insurance, investment management, and other financial products and services to both retail and institutional customers throughout the United States and in over 40 other countries.
| Revenue (TTM) | $65.22B |
| Gross Profit (TTM) | $18.93B |
| EBITDA | $5.21B |
| Operating Margin | 7.52% |
| Return on Equity | 12.00% |
| Return on Assets | 0.44% |
| Revenue/Share (TTM) | $187.18 |
| Book Value | $91.47 |
| Price-to-Book | 1.29 |
| Price-to-Sales (TTM) | 0.61 |
| EV/Revenue | 1.069 |
| EV/EBITDA | — |
| Quarterly Earnings Growth (YoY) | 89.20% |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth (YoY) | 14.10% |
| Shares Outstanding | $345.00M |
| Float | $343.90M |
| % Insiders | 0.18% |
| % Institutions | 64.85% |
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Four companies kept raising their dividends even as the pandemic hammered their sectors in 2020, and they are still raising today. The question is whether their yields and valuations make them worth buying right now.

Prudential Financial's retirement growth, higher investment income and efficiency initiatives support earnings, but Japan's sales suspension poses a significant risk.

Prudential Financial, Inc. (PRU) Discusses Japan Business Update Following FSA Orders, Remediation Steps, and Path Forward Transcript

Prudential Financial NYSE: PRU said Japan's Financial Services Agency has extended a business suspension order for Prudential of Japan, or POJ, through Jan. 31, 2027, while also issuing business improvement orders for POJ and Prudential Holdings of Japan.

Under an order from Japan's Financial Services Agency, the financial services firm's Prudential Life Insurance unit cannot solicit new business until Jan. 31, 2027.

TOKYO & NEWARK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Prudential Life Insurance Company, Ltd. (“Prudential of Japan” or “POJ”), Gibraltar Life Insurance Company, Ltd. (“Gibraltar”), and Prudential Holdings of Japan, Inc. (“PHJ”), subsidiaries of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU) (“Prudential Financial”), announced today the receipt of business suspension and improvement orders issued by Japan's Financial Services Agency (“FSA”). The FSA issued business suspension and business improvement orders to PO.

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