GLOBE LIFE INC.
At today's price, GLOBE LIFE INC. (GL) is priced for 15.5% return on equity. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
An insurer is worth the return it earns on its capital. At $170.72 Globe Life trades at about 2.2 times book, a price that assumes it sustains a return on equity near 15%. It has recently been earning about 19%, so the price asks for less than the company is delivering. The valuation is broadly supported. Relative-multiple, asset-based, and earnings-power lenses all sit at or above the price, and several methods land well above it. This reads as a value-supported financial, not a stretched bet.
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641 institutional managers reported holding GL in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 68% of the company; the top 10 hold 32%. 68 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Invesco, State Street, among others. On the short side, 1.8M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 2% of shares outstanding (3.5 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
GL has cut its share count 23.7% over the past five years, spending $3.34B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting), raised 15 years straight; the current rate is $1.08 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $235.46M in dividends and $2.37B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at GL over the trailing three years: 2024: 11 buys totaling $1.72M. 25 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
GL's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-09 | -2.6% | 0.0% |
| 2023-11-07 | +2.0% | +3.4% |
| 2024-02-29 | +3.1% | -37.5% |
| 2024-05-09 | +0.6% | -1.9% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
GL's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-29 (items 1.01, 9.01); 2026-05-04 (items 5.02, 5.07); 2026-04-22 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-02-27 (items 5.02); 2026-02-04 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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