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Kansas City Life Insurance Company

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Kansas City Life Insurance Company

KCLI·OTC·Financial Services·CIK 0000054473

Kansas City Life Insurance Company (Kansas City Life) was incorporated in 1895 and adopted its current name in 1900, reorganizing as a stock life insurance company in 1903. Kansas City Life operates in 48 states and the District of Columbia. The company is the parent of two wholly-owned life insurance subsidiaries: Sunset Life Insurance Company of America (Sunset Life) and Old American Insurance Company (Old American). Sunset Life, acquired in 1974, was organized in 1937 and previously focused on the western United States. Its sales force was integrated into Kansas City Life's in 2006, and its operations are now consolidated with the parent company. Sunset Life maintains its existing block of business but does not solicit new sales. Its individual insurance products include traditional life, immediate annuity, universal life, and fixed deferred annuity products. Sunset Life operates in 43 states and the District of Columbia. Old American, acquired in 1991, was organized in 1939. It sells final expense traditional life insurance products, primarily to the senior market, and also offers a term product for younger individuals. Kansas City Life also owns Sunset Financial Services (SFS), a wholesale broker-dealer that helps distribute and market Kansas City Life's proprietary variable life and variable annuity products through third-party broker-dealers. SFS also services closed blocks of variable insurance business retained by the Company. The company also has several non-insurance subsidiaries that are not individually or collectively material.

Kansas City Life Insurance Company (OTC:KCLI) is a publicly traded company in the Financial Services sector. Wiseek has independently scored 2 items for KCLI at importance 7 or higher on its 1–10 market-impact scale. Its most recent item scored 7 or higher is dated 2026-05-01, rated 8/10. Across its 2 most recent items scored 7 or higher, the top rating is 8/10, with 2 rated 8 or above.

Recent high-impact activity:

  • Kansas City Life Insurance Q1 Profit More Than Doubles, Dividend Rises
  • Kansas City Life Swings to $972K Q4 Profit on Stronger Revenues

Financial Snapshot

Fiscal year ended December 31, 2014
Revenue
$465.02M
Cash & Equivalents
$11.01M
Debt / Equity
0.00×
Net Margin
0.0%
Shares Outstanding
10.83M sh
Source: 10-K · filed 2015-03-06 · accession 0001014108-15-000057

Short Interest & Short Volume

1.00 days to cover

FINRA reported short interest of 1 shares in KCLI as of the September 15, 2026 settlement, unchanged from the prior period — about 1.0 days to cover at its recent average daily volume. On October 1, 2026, 37.5% of KCLI volume reported to FINRA trade-reporting facilities was marked short.

Short interest (bi-monthly positions)1 shares as of September 15, 2026
Change vs prior period 0.0%
Days to cover1.00 at avg daily volume of 829
Daily short volume (FINRA facilities)37.5% of 2,001 shares on October 1, 2026

Daily short sale volume covers trades reported to FINRA trade-reporting facilities and is not the same as short interest (bi-monthly reported positions). Source: FINRA — FINRA is the owner and source of this short interest and short sale volume data; it may not be redistributed.

No longer listed

KCLI (Kansas City Life Insurance Company) is no longer listed on a major US exchange, so Wiseek no longer shows market data for this symbol. It last appeared on NASDAQ. The filings and coverage below remain available as an archive.

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KCLI
May 01, 2026, 2:40 PM EDT
Source: Reuters
Importance Score:
8
KCLI
Mar 09, 2026, 7:39 PM EDT
Source: Reuters
Importance Score:
8
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