A ten.9% yield however down 14%! £11,000 on this FTSE dividend celebrity might make me £26,716 in annual passive earnings

FTSE insurer Phoenix Group Holdings (LSE: PHNX) has fallen round 14% from its 27 July 12-month traded excessive of £5.63.

Dividend yields transfer in the other way to share costs. So this worth fall signifies that the shares now return one of many highest payouts in any FTSE index.

How a lot can I make?

In 2023, the agency elevated its dividend to 52.65p a share from 50.8p the yr earlier than. On the present share worth of £4.85, this provides a yield of 10.9%.

So £11,000 (the common financial savings quantity within the UK) invested at 10.9% would make £1,199 this yr in dividend funds.

If the yield averaged the identical over 10 years, the dividends can be £11,990 on prime of the £11,000 funding.

Crucially, reinvesting the dividends paid again into the inventory can turbocharge the general returns. That is ‘dividend compounding’ and is similar concept as compound curiosity in a checking account.

If I did this, I might have an extra £19,953 as a substitute of £11,990 after 10 years. It might imply £30,953 in whole, paying £3,042 a yr in dividends, or £254 a month.

Over 30 years on a mean 10.9% yield, the funding pot would whole £245,098, paying £26,716 a yr, or £2,226 a month!

Are these excessive returns sustainable?

Progress in earnings and income drives will increase in an organization’s share worth and its dividends over time.

The principle threat within the firm, for my part, stays a deterioration in its methods to hedge its capital place. This includes buying and selling different belongings with the intention of decreasing the danger of hostile market actions on its capital.

Nevertheless, its core enterprise seems to be to me to be increasing strongly. In 2023, its Pension and Financial savings enterprise grew 27% from 2022. New enterprise internet inflows soared by 72%, to £6.7bn.

The corporate is now concentrating on £900m in IFRS-adjusted working revenue by the top of 2026.

Consensus analysts’ expectations are that its earnings will develop by 38.9% a yr to end-2026. Earnings per share are forecast to extend by 52.5% a yr to that time.

Undervalued as effectively?

To minimise the possibility of my dividends being erased by sustained share worth falls, I all the time purchase shares I believe are undervalued.

One key measurement to establish whether or not a share is undervalued is the price-to-book (P/B) ratio.  Phoenix Group is presently buying and selling at a P/B of simply 1.6. This compares to the common P/B of its peer group of three.4, so it seems to be a discount on this foundation.

The identical applies to its price-to-sales (P/S) valuation of solely 0.2 towards a peer group common of 1.4.

Given their extraordinarily excessive yield, obvious undervaluation, and progress prospects, I will probably be growing my current stake in Phoenix Group Holdings very quickly.