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Company snapshot — Aflac Incorporated

AFL in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Aflac sells supplemental cover for health and life risks through two units, Aflac Japan and Aflac U.S. The Japan unit writes cancer, hospital, nursing-care, whole-life and savings-linked policies for Japanese consumers. The U.S. unit covers accidents, disability, critical illness, hospital stays, dental, vision and life risk for individuals and business owners. Other lines include hearing, pet, Medicare-supplement and absence-management cover, reaching customers through agents, brokers, banks and career associates. The group is based in Columbus, Georgia.
Where it sits in the stack
Aflac holds no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index, since it insures people rather than supplying the compute chain. It sits within the insurance corner of our wider universe, under financial services, and is not a constraint on or customer of any layer Rubin tracks.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group has not set a comparison list for Aflac yet. The market usually places it alongside other life and supplemental-health insurers such as MetLife.
Why Closelook tracks it
Aflac holds a seat in the S&P 500 but carries no Rubin seat and no Closelook score so far; the diary has not quoted it in an edition yet.
What the diary watches
The diary watches how the Japan unit's savings-linked and cancer policies move against the U.S. unit's supplemental lines, since a shift between the two changes the read on the group.

Aflac Incorporated (AFL) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for AFL, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Insurance - Life · United States · 7 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Insurance - Life · United States

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against AFL on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 2.07%, quarterly · last 0.61 USD on 2026-08-19

Dividends and capital return

What AFL pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 2.41 USD per share · a 2.07% yield on the 2026-09-17 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-17
  • Change on the year +7.6% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 2.24 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.61 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-08-19
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.42 USD (partial) · 2024: 2.00 USD · 2025: 2.32 USD · 2026: 1.83 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-11-14

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-17

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is Aflac Incorporated (AFL)?

Aflac Incorporated trades as AFL on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is AFL in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Aflac Incorporated is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-18.

Where does AFL trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -3.4% vs the 50-day and +2% vs the 200-day average, 10.5% below the 52-week high and +12.3% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-17 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Aflac Incorporated do?

Aflac sells supplemental cover for health and life risks through two units, Aflac Japan and Aflac U.S. The Japan unit writes cancer, hospital, nursing-care, whole-life and savings-linked policies for Japanese consumers. The U.S. unit covers accidents, disability, critical illness, hospital stays, dental, vision and life risk for individuals and business owners. Closelook's peer group has not set a comparison list for Aflac yet. The market usually places it alongside other life and supplemental-health insurers such as MetLife.

Where does Aflac Incorporated sit in the AI build-out?

Aflac holds no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index, since it insures people rather than supplying the compute chain. It sits within the insurance corner of our wider universe, under financial services, and is not a constraint on or customer of any layer Rubin tracks. Aflac holds a seat in the S&P 500 but carries no Rubin seat and no Closelook score so far; the diary has not quoted it in an edition yet.

Does Aflac Incorporated pay a dividend?

Aflac Incorporated has paid 2.41 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 2.07% on the 2026-09-17 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.61 USD on 2026-08-19. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for AFL, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Insurance - Life, then Financial Services. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.