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Great-West Lifeco Inc. (GWO.TO) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for GWO.TO, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

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 61/100 · S&P 500 fund at 75, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-10-06
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 98th percentile of the window, +5.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-10-06
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.74 · up 0.17 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-10-06
Who it is priced against Insurance - Life · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Insurance - Life

This name carries no Closelooknet 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 GWO.TO on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Great-West Lifeco Inc.

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

What it does
Great-West Lifeco writes life, health and creditor insurance, and sells retirement savings, annuity and wealth-management products under the Empower, Canada Life and Irish Life brands. It also runs reinsurance and third-party asset-management services for pension schemes, insurers and sovereign funds across Canada, the United States and Europe. It is based in Winnipeg and is a subsidiary of Power Corporation of Canada.
Where it sits in the stack
Great-West Lifeco carries no seat in Rubin or Halo, the diary's AI build-out indices; it sits instead in our Financial Services universe, in the life-insurance sleeve alongside Canada's other large insurers.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group places it with other Financial Services names based in Canada — Manulife, Sun Life, Power Corporation, IGM Financial, Intact, Royal Bank of Canada, CIBC and Bank of Nova Scotia; MetLife is the wider name the market sometimes compares it with abroad.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
It holds no index seat and no quotes in our editions, but it does carry a Closelooknet score: momentum is the strongest of its seven modules and cash quality the weakest.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether the cash-quality module recovers or the gap to its strong momentum reading widens further.

Great-West Lifeco Inc. (GWO.TO) trades on the TO exchange in Canada.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’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.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 2.94%, quarterly · last 0.67 CAD on 2026-09-01

Dividends and capital return

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

  • Trailing 12 months 2.62 CAD per share · a 2.94% yield on the 2026-10-06 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-10-06
  • Change on the year +43.2% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 1.83 CAD per share
  • Last distribution 0.67 CAD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-09-01
  • By calendar year 2025: 2.44 CAD (partial) · 2026: 2.01 CAD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-03-03

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.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-10-07

Quick answers

What is Great-West Lifeco Inc. (GWO.TO)?

Great-West Lifeco Inc. trades as GWO.TO on the TO exchange (Canada) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-10-07.

Is GWO.TO in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Great-West Lifeco Inc. is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-10-07.

Where does GWO.TO trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -2% vs the 50-day and +16.3% vs the 200-day average, 7.2% below the 52-week high and +63% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-10-06 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does Great-West Lifeco Inc. compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Insurance - Life), Great-West Lifeco Inc. (GWO.TO) sits 7.2% below its 52-week high, 2.0% below its 50-day average; Manulife Financial Corp (MFC.TO) is 3.2% below, Power Corporation Of Canada (POW.TO) is 8.6% below, MetLife Inc (MET) is 3.7% below. Put any of them next to GWO.TO in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

What does Great-West Lifeco Inc. do?

Great-West Lifeco writes life, health and creditor insurance, and sells retirement savings, annuity and wealth-management products under the Empower, Canada Life and Irish Life brands. It also runs reinsurance and third-party asset-management services for pension schemes, insurers and sovereign funds across Canada, the United States and Europe. It is based in Winnipeg and is a subsidiary of Power Corporation of Canada. Closelooknet's peer group places it with other Financial Services names based in Canada — Manulife, Sun Life, Power Corporation, IGM Financial, Intact, Royal Bank of Canada, CIBC and Bank of Nova Scotia; MetLife is the wider name the market sometimes compares it with abroad.

Where does Great-West Lifeco Inc. sit in the AI build-out?

Great-West Lifeco carries no seat in Rubin or Halo, the diary's AI build-out indices; it sits instead in our Financial Services universe, in the life-insurance sleeve alongside Canada's other large insurers. It holds no index seat and no quotes in our editions, but it does carry a Closelooknet score: momentum is the strongest of its seven modules and cash quality the weakest.

Does Great-West Lifeco Inc. pay a dividend?

Great-West Lifeco Inc. has paid 2.62 CAD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 2.94% on the 2026-10-06 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.67 CAD on 2026-09-01. 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 GWO.TO, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then Insurance - Life, then Financial Services. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet 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.