PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL INC (PRU): what the price assumes
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $119.79, PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL INC (PRU) is priced for 12.2% return on equity. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating; individual model outputs and user-controlled scenarios are analytical inputs, not Boothcheck targets. Narrative composed 2026-06-27.
Generated: 2026-08-30 · Source: https://boothcheck.com/report/PRU
Headline
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Ticker | PRU |
| Company | PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL INC |
| Current price | $119.79/sh |
| Composition | PGIM 11% / Retirement Strategies 56% / Group Insurance 17% / Individual Life 16% |
What The Price Assumes (Inversion)
The assumption today's price embeds, recovered by inverting the valuation.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Inversion basis | financials |
| Return on equity needed | 12.2% |
| Return on equity now | 10.9% |
| ROE gap | +1.3pp |
| Price-to-book | 1.31x |
Solve inputs: computed at a 10.3% cost of equity with 4% terminal growth over a 10-year stage, on common book equity (FY2026).
How unusual the bet is: within-range
| Reference | Value |
|---|---|
| vs own history | +0.94σ |
| cohort percentile (of 78 peers) | 35 |
| sustained it ~10 years at this level | 69% |
| implied end-window share | 0% |
Valuation X-Ray
The price is supported by asset-based and earnings-power and growth-DCF value. A value/asset-supported name, not a pure growth bet.
How the valuation models price the stock relative to the market price. Price/FV above 1.0 means the market pays more than that lens defends (expensive); at or below 1.0 the lens can defend the price.
| Family | Median price/FV | Models | Reads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asset | 0.85x | 3 | justifies |
| Earnings | 1.00x | 1 | justifies |
| Relative | — | 0 | — |
| Growth | 0.59x | 1 | justifies |
Families that justify the price: Asset, Earnings, Growth
The models below discount at their own flat-beta convention rates (cost of equity 9.3%, WACC 7.5%); the inversion above states its own rate.
Per-Model Detail (n=5)
| Model | Family | FV | Price/FV | Applicable | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DCF Perpetual Growth | Growth | — | — | no | — |
| Bank Fair Value (P/TBV) | — | $137.53 | 0.87x | yes | TBVPS $91.53 × 1.50x (ROE (TTM) 12.4% / CoE 9.3%, g=5.0% (sustainable: 65% retention × ROE, 5% cap; not the terminal-growth assumption), credit 0.77% allowance/loans → ×0.90, NPL 1.59% → ×0.96) |
| Relative Valuation | Relative | — | — | no | P/E 11x (static sector reference · 2026-04), scenarios: 9.1x / 11.0x / 12.9x (bear / base = reference held flat / bull), EV/EBITDA 22x |
| Simple DDM | Growth | — | — | no | — |
| Two-Stage DDM | Growth | $201.47 | 0.59x | yes | Stage 1: 20% for 5yr, Stage 2: 3.5% perpetual |
| Simple Excess Return | Asset | $122.77 | 0.98x | yes | BV/sh $91.53, ROE (TTM) 12.4%, ke 9.3% |
| Two-Stage Excess Return | Asset | $141.21 | 0.85x | yes | 5yr excess ROE then converge to ke=9.3% |
| Discounted Future Market Cap | Growth | — | — | no | Rev $64.8B, growth 12% (input: historical growth; tapered), Terminal P/S: 0.5x / 0.6x / 0.7x (bear / base = today's held flat / bull, cap 8x) |
| Peter Lynch Fair Value | Relative | — | — | no | EPS $11.03, growth 2% (input: historical EPS growth), PEG=5.28 (Overvalued) |
| Margin Trajectory | Growth | — | — | no | — |
| Earnings Power Value | Earnings | — | — | no | — |
| Residual Income | Asset | — | — | no | — |
| Graham Number | Asset | $150.71 | 0.79x | yes | √(22.5 × EPS $11.03 × BVPS $91.53) — Graham's conservative floor |
| EV/EBITDA Relative | Relative | — | — | no | — |
| FCF Yield | Earnings | — | — | no | — |
| SBC-Adj FCF Yield | Earnings | — | — | no | — |
| Ben Graham Formula | Earnings | — | — | no | EPS $11.03 × (8.5 + 2×15.0%) × (4.4 / 5.3%) |
| ROIC-Justified P/B | Asset | — | — | no | — |
| P/Sales Sector | Relative | — | — | no | — |
| PEG Fair Value | Relative | — | — | no | EPS $11.03 × (PEG 1.5 × growth 25.0% (input: historical EPS growth)) → PE 37.5x |
| Earnings Yield | Earnings | $119.24 | 1.00x | yes | EPS $11.03 / required return 9.3% (Rf 4.3% + ERP 5.0%) |
| Funds From Operations Multiple | Relative | — | — | no | — |
| Clinical Phase NPV | Growth | — | — | no | — |
| Merton | Asset | — | — | no | — |
| V5 Mechanical | — | — | — | no | — |
Economic-Unit Decomposition (Sum Of The Parts)
The issuer is a funded financial business. Debt, interest, and cash flows are operating inputs, so industrial EV, net-debt, WACC, and free-cash-flow lenses do not apply; value the common-equity claim with book, earnings, capital, and payout economics.
| Unit | Role | Valuation basis | Revenue | Reported profit | Value evidence | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PGIM | financial | equity | $4.2b | — | withheld | unresolved standalone equity facts required |
| Retirement Strategies | financial | equity | $22.2b | — | withheld | unresolved standalone equity facts required |
| Group Insurance | financial | equity | $6.8b | — | withheld | unresolved standalone equity facts required |
| Individual Life | financial | equity | $6.1b | — | withheld | unresolved standalone equity facts required |
| International Businesses | financial | equity | $18.1b | — | withheld | unresolved standalone equity facts required |
No unit-level total common-equity value is stated. Each financial unit requires supported standalone common equity, normalized earnings, capital adequacy, and payout capacity. Consolidated debt, interest, and cash are operating balances, not an enterprise-to-equity bridge; company-level book, earnings, capital, and payout lenses remain the coherent cross-checks.
Solvency
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Share count CAGR (buyback) | -1.8% |
Deposit/float-funded balance sheet: debt is funding, not corporate leverage, and GAAP operating cash flow follows loan flows. Net-debt, interest-coverage, and cash-burn lenses do not apply. The solvency frame for a financial is regulatory capital and payout capacity (CET1, stress buffer, dividends plus buybacks against earnings).
Bullet Takeaways
- At about $107 the stock trades near 1.2 times book and implies a sustained return on equity of roughly 11.5%, just above the 11% it has recently earned. Every valuation family supports the price, so this is a value and asset-backed name, not a growth bet.
- The live overhang is Japan. Prudential's Japanese arm has suspended new sales after employee misconduct, the freeze now runs into November 2026, and management has withdrawn its growth target and flagged a pretax hit of roughly $525 million to $575 million in 2026.
- The cash return is real and steady. The company returned $746 million to shareholders in the first quarter, split between dividends of $1.40 per share and buybacks, against after-tax adjusted operating income of $1.278 billion.
Bull Case
The most useful way to read Prudential is to see where the price sits against the valuation methods, because for once it sits below most of them. An insurer is worth the return it earns on its capital, so the right lens is price-to-book, and at about $107 (June 27, 2026) the stock trades near 1.2 times book while implying a sustained return on equity of roughly 11.5%. It has recently earned about 11%. That is a small ask, and it explains why the asset, earnings-power, peer-multiple, and growth frames all support the current price rather than stretching for it. The spread across methods says the market is not paying up for Prudential; it is pricing a steady, capital-backed franchise at a modest premium to its book.
The earnings engine behind that book is diversified and increasingly fee-led. Retirement Strategies is the largest piece of the business at roughly 56% of the mix, with PGIM, Group Insurance, and Individual Life rounding it out. PGIM is the asset-management arm, and it carried the first quarter, with adjusted operating income up 22% year over year and assets under management of $1.433 trillion. The 10-K lays out the competitive landscape Prudential operates in across "Institutional Retirement Strategies" where it competes "with other large" providers (FY2025 10-K, accession 0001137774-26-000048), a market where scale, ratings, and distribution are the moat. A balance-sheet business with a large fee overlay is more durable than a pure spread lender.
The capital story is what a value buyer is really paying for. In the first quarter Prudential returned $746 million to shareholders, $250 million in buybacks and $496 million in dividends of $1.40 per share, while still generating after-tax adjusted operating income of $1.278 billion and beating estimates by a wide margin. The share count has been shrinking at roughly 2% a year. For a stock trading near book with a covered dividend and a buyback that compounds per-share value, the bar to a reasonable outcome is low: it does not need multiple expansion or heroic growth, only for the franchise to keep earning roughly what it already earns.
Bear Case
The disruption that matters for Prudential right now is not a competitor; it is a self-inflicted wound in Japan, and it is the place to start. The company's Japanese life arm has voluntarily suspended new sales after disclosing that roughly 100 current and former employees improperly took funds from customers. What began as a 90-day pause has been extended by another 180 days, pushing the freeze into November 2026, and management said the required fixes to operations, governance, and organizational structure are broader than first expected. The financial consequence is concrete: management withdrew its growth target and guided to a pretax adjusted operating income hit of roughly $525 million to $575 million in 2026 and a further $400 million to $450 million in 2027. Japan, run through the Gibraltar Life and Life Planner segments the 10-K describes as core to "International Businesses" (FY2025 10-K, accession 0001137774-26-000048), has been a profit anchor, and Japan's Financial Services Agency has opened an on-site inspection that could bring business improvement orders.
Beneath the headline, the competitive setting is genuinely hard. In retirement and annuities, Prudential competes "with other large" institutional players (FY2025 10-K, accession 0001137774-26-000048), a field crowded with well-capitalized insurers and, increasingly, private-capital-backed annuity platforms that are repricing the cost of liabilities. PGIM is strong but operates in asset management, where fee compression and passive competition are structural headwinds even when assets rise with the market. None of these businesses is growing fast; they grow with markets and with capital deployed, which is why the implied return on equity, not a growth rate, is the variable that matters.
The valuation gives little reward for taking that risk. Analyst sentiment reflects the caution, with several firms holding underweight ratings and trimming targets on regulatory and Japan concerns. If the Japan remediation drags, if surrenders accelerate while sales are frozen, or if the FSA inspection escalates, the earnings power that justifies the current book multiple comes under pressure, and a stock priced for steadiness does not have a discount to fall back on.
Valuation
Prudential is valued the way an insurer should be, off price-to-book rather than an operating multiple, because its worth is the return it earns on its capital. At about $107 the stock trades near 1.16 times book and implies a sustained return on equity of roughly 11.5%, computed at a 10.5% cost of equity with 4% terminal growth over a five-year stage. It has recently earned about 11%, so the assumed return is within reach of its own record, and the inversion reads the overall priced-in level as within range rather than elevated.
What stands out is that every family supports the price. The asset frame, the earnings-power frame, the peer-multiple frame, and the growth-DCF all land at or just below the current quote, which is the signature of a value and asset-backed name rather than an expectations stock. The reasonable-return band built from the inversion runs from a low near $66 to a base around $82 and a high near $126, a wide range that reflects how sensitive an insurer's value is to the return-on-equity assumption: each point of cost of equity moves the implied return by a bit over a point. Against peers, the price-to-book sits in the lower half of the group, so Prudential is not the expensive insurer.
The honest framing is that this is a modest premium to book for a diversified franchise that earns its cost of capital, returns most of its earnings to shareholders, and is shrinking the share count. The thing the valuation does not fully price is the Japan disruption, which is a near-term earnings drag of known but uncertain size. A buyer at this level is underwriting that the franchise keeps earning roughly 11% once Japan normalizes, and accepting that there is no cheap-multiple cushion if it does not.
Catalysts
The dominant catalyst is the Japan sales suspension and its resolution. The freeze, prompted by disclosed employee misconduct, has been extended into November 2026, and Japan's Financial Services Agency has begun an on-site inspection. Management has quantified the drag at roughly $525 million to $575 million of pretax adjusted operating income in 2026 and $400 million to $450 million in 2027, and has withdrawn its prior growth target. Any update on the inspection, the remediation timeline, or the pace of surrenders while sales are paused will move the stock, and a clean restart on schedule would remove a meaningful overhang.
The ongoing results tell a steadier story. First-quarter 2026 after-tax adjusted operating income was $1.278 billion, or $3.61 per share, up from $3.29 a year earlier and ahead of estimates, with PGIM operating income up 22% and assets under management of $1.433 trillion. The next earnings reports are the checkpoints for whether the rest of the franchise can offset the Japan hit. Capital return is a continuing support: the company paid a $1.40 quarterly dividend and bought back stock, and the cadence of buybacks and any dividend action are catalysts in their own right for a value holder.
The risks beyond Japan are the familiar ones for a large insurer. Interest-rate moves affect spread income and the value of the investment portfolio, equity markets drive PGIM fees and variable-annuity reserves, and credit conditions matter for the asset book. Analyst sentiment is cautious, with several firms at underweight and trimming targets, so a downgrade or a soft quarter could weigh on the shares even as the long-run capital-return case stays intact.
Peer Cohorts (Per Segment, With Filing Citations)
PGIM (reported)
- BLK (BlackRock, Inc.)
- FY2025 10-K: …CIPs, and corporate minority private debt investments. Investments in CLOs and loans were valued based on single-broker nonbinding quotes or quotes from pricing services which use significant unobservable inputs. BlackRock's corporate minority private debt investments were primarily valued using the income approach…
- FY2025 10-K: …including AUM, for potential indicators of impairment. Contingent Consideration Liabilities In connection with certain acquisitions, BlackRock is required to make contingent payments, subject to the achievement of specified performance targets or satisfaction of certain post-closing events. The fair value of this…
- TROW (PRICE T ROWE GROUP INC)
- FY2025 10-K: …of data between multiple IT systems used to maintain AUM data. To assess the AUM data, we (1) compared AUM used in the calculation of a sample of investment advisory fees to the source IT systems, and (2) for a selection of Funds, compared AUM on select dates from the source IT system to the audited Fund financial…
- FY2025 10-K: …(Incorporated by reference from Form 10-K filed on February 24, 2022.) 10.22 * T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. Mutual Fund Unit Plan. (Incorporated by reference from Form 8-K Current Report filed on December 2, 2022.) 10.23 * Form of Notice of Grant--U.S. 6-Month Notice Period--Material Risk Taker (Incorporated by…
- AMG (AFFILIATED MANAGERS GROUP, INC.)
- FY2025 10-K: …0001004434 false 2025 FY P10D http://www.amg.com/20251231#AmortizationAndImpairmentsOfIntangibleAssets http://www.amg.com/20251231#AmortizationAndImpairmentsOfIntangibleAssets iso4217:USD xbrli:shares iso4217:USD xbrli:shares xbrli:pure amg:affiliate utr:Y amg:segment 0001004434 2025-01-01 2025-12-31 0001004434…
- FY2025 10-K: -centric cultures and alignment of interests with clients through direct equity ownership by firm principals, independent firms have fundamental competitive advantages in offering unique return streams to the marketplace. Through AMG's distinctive approach, we enhance these advantages to magnify the long-term success…
- BEN (FRANKLIN RESOURCES, INC.)
- FY2025 10-K: …the completeness, accuracy, relevance and reliability of certain underlying data used in the NPV method, and (iii) evaluating the reasonableness of management's significant assumption related to the AUM growth rate and pre-tax profit margin by considering industry knowledge and data, current and past performance of…
- FY2025 10-K: …net of closing adjustments funded from existing cash. In addition, we will pay up to €125.0 million in cash through the fifth anniversary of the closing date based on achieving revenue targets. We will pay up to $375.0 million related to our acquisition of Putnam between the third and seventh anniversaries of the…
- IVZ (Invesco Ltd.)
- FY2025 10-K: …performance-vested awards are excluded from diluted EPS share calculations as the designated contingency was not met. 16. SEGMENT AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION The company has one operating segment, investment management. The company's CODM is the President and Chief Executive Officer as he assesses the company's…
- FY2025 10-K: …to external parties who perform functions on behalf of, and distribute, the company's managed funds. The Net revenue presentation assists in identifying the revenue contribution generated by the company, removing distortions caused by the differing distribution channel fees and allowing for a fair comparison with…
Retirement Strategies (reported)
- MET (MetLife, Inc.)
- FY2025 10-K: …srt:MinimumMember met:RetirementAndIncomeSolutionsSegmentMember 2025-12-31 0001099219 met:AnnuitiesAndRiskSolutionsMember met:PolicyholderAccountBalanceGuaranteedMinimumCreditingRateRangeFrom0200To0399Member srt:MaximumMember met:RetirementAndIncomeSolutionsSegmentMember 2025-12-31 0001099219…
- FY2025 10-K: …met:PolicyholderAccountBalanceGuaranteedMinimumCreditingRateRangeFrom0001To0199Member srt:MinimumMember met:RetirementAndIncomeSolutionsSegmentMember 2023-12-31 0001099219 met:AnnuitiesAndRiskSolutionsMember met:PolicyholderAccountBalanceGuaranteedMinimumCreditingRateRangeFrom0001To0199Member srt:MaximumMember…
- PFG (PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP INC)
- FY2025 10-K: …and Supplementary Data, Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, Note 14, Income Taxes" under the caption, "Effective Income Tax Rate" for further discussion. Results of Operations by Segment For results of operations by segment see Item 8. "Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, Notes to Consolidated…
- FY2025 10-K: For the year ended December 31, 2023 Retirement Principal and Income Asset Benefits and Solutions Management Protection Corporate Total (in millions) Revenue from contracts with external customers (1) $ 4,647.5…
- VOYA (Voya Financial, Inc.)
- FY2025 10-K: …Note in our Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8. of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. OUR BUSINESSES Retirement Our Retirement segment provides retirement plan solutions and administration technology and services to employers through our Retirement business. It also provides individual retirement…
- FY2025 10-K: …proprietary or outside investment managers, and pooled funds. 7 Table of Contents The following chart presents our Retirement product/service models and corresponding AUM and AUA as of December 31, 2025, key markets in which we compete, primary defined contribution plan Internal Revenue Code ("IRC") sections and core…
- EQH (Equitable Holdings, Inc.)
- FY2025 10-K: …eqh:RetirementMember 2025-12-31 0001333986 eqh:EQUIVESTIndividualMember us-gaap:PolicyholderAccountBalanceAboveGuaranteedMinimumCreditingRateRangeFrom0001To0050Member eqh:PolicyholderAccountBalanceGuaranteedMinimumCreditingRateRangeFrom000To150Member eqh:RetirementMember 2025-12-31 0001333986…
- FY2025 10-K: IndividualMember eqh:PolicyholderAccountBalanceAboveGuaranteedMinimumCreditingRateRangeGreaterThan0150Member eqh:PolicyholderAccountBalanceGuaranteedMinimumCreditingRateRangeFrom150To250Member eqh:RetirementMember 2024-12-31 0001333986 eqh:EQUIVESTIndividualMember…
- CRBG (Corebridge Financial, Inc.)
- FY2025 10-K: …We identify and pursue growth opportunities based on our assessment of the opportunity to generate both attractive returns and drive volume. We believe the growth in the U.S. retirement market driven by the aging of the population, reduced access to private pensions, inter-generational wealth transfers and improved…
- FY2025 10-K: …institutions, where we serve plan sponsors across all 50 states in the 403(b), 457(b), 401(a) and 401(k) markets. We offer customized versions of our in-plan annuities and certain of our Individual Retirement annuity products to our customers for their out-of-plan assets, primarily through the large individual…
Group Insurance (reported)
- MET (MetLife, Inc.)
- FY2025 10-K: . We distribute Group Benefits products and services through a sales force primarily comprised of MetLife employees that is segmented by the size of the target customer. Account executives sell either directly to corporate and other group customers or through an intermediary, such as a broker or consultant. Employers…
- FY2025 10-K: …GCC Group Capital Calculation NAV Net Asset Value GDPR General Data Protection Regulation Nebraska Director Director of the Nebraska Department of Insurance GICs Guaranteed Interest Contracts NGEs Non-Guaranteed Elements GILTI Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income NIFO Net investment in a foreign operation GMABs…
- UNM (Unum Group)
- FY2025 10-K: …for group long-term disability are generally based on expected claims of a pool of similar risks plus provisions for administrative expenses, investment income, and profit. Some cases carry experience rating provisions. Premiums for experience-rated group long-term disability business are based on the expected…
- FY2025 10-K: …a renewable term life insurance product and a group dependent life product. The renewable term life product provides a lump sum benefit to the beneficiary upon the death of an employee. The group dependent life product, which we discontinued offering to new customers in 2012, provides an annuity to the beneficiary…
- LNC (LINCOLN NATIONAL CORPORATION)
- FY2025 10-K: …7 Table of Contents Supplemental Health Insurance We offer a suite of employer-sponsored supplemental health insurance products designed for employees and their covered dependents. Coverage is primarily employee-paid. These products are characterized as part of the life products line when reporting results. Accident…
- FY2025 10-K: …certain risk factors can affect life expectancy and are evaluated during the underwriting process. Claims Administration Claims service is handled primarily in-house, and claims examiners are assigned to each claim notification based on coverage amount, type of claim and the experience of the examiner. Claims meeting…
- GL (GLOBE LIFE INC.)
- FY2025 10-K: …accounting as it did not pass the risk transfer requirements for reinsurance treatment on a GAAP basis. Since the agreement is subject to deposit accounting and meets the right of offset conditions outlined in the accounting policy the Company recorded the initial coinsurance, ceding commission and funds withheld…
- FY2025 10-K: …gl:PolicyholderAccountBalanceGuaranteedMinimumCreditingRateRangeFrom0400To0499Member 2024-12-31 0000320335 us-gaap:InterestSensitiveLifeMember us-gaap:PolicyholderAccountBalanceAtGuaranteedMinimumCreditingRateMember gl:PolicyholderAccountBalanceGuaranteedMinimumCreditingRateRangeFrom0500AndGreaterMember 2024-12-31…
Individual Life (reported)
- MET (MetLife, Inc.)
- FY2025 10-K: 01To0199Member met:AsiaSegmentMember 2023-12-31 0001099219 met:UniversalAndVariableLifeContractsMember us-gaap:PolicyholderAccountBalanceAboveGuaranteedMinimumCreditingRateRangeFrom0151AndGreaterMember met:PolicyholderAccountBalanceGuaranteedMinimumCreditingRateRangeFrom0001To0199Member met:AsiaSegmentMember…
- FY2025 10-K: …srt:MaximumMember met:CorporateAndOther1Member 2025-12-31 0001099219 met:LifeAndOtherMember us-gaap:PolicyholderAccountBalanceAtGuaranteedMinimumCreditingRateMember met:PolicyholderAccountBalanceGuaranteedMinimumCreditingRateRangeFrom0200To0399Member met:CorporateAndOther1Member 2025-12-31 0001099219…
- AFL (AFLAC INC)
- FY2025 10-K: Member 2025-06-30 0000004977 afl:SeniorNotesTwoPointZeroZeroThreePercentDueDecemberTwentyThirtyTwoMember 2025-06-30 0000004977 afl:SeniorNotesTwoPointThreeSixNinePercentDueJuneTwentyThirtyFiveMember 2025-06-30 0000004977 afl:SeniorNotesTwoPointSevenSevenNinePercentDueJuneTwentyFourtyMember 2025-06-30 0000004977…
- FY2025 10-K: …srt:MinimumMember afl:AflacJapanMember 2025-12-31 0000004977 us-gaap:FixedAnnuityMember srt:MaximumMember afl:AflacJapanMember 2025-12-31 0000004977 us-gaap:FixedAnnuityMember srt:MinimumMember afl:AflacJapanMember 2024-12-31 0000004977 us-gaap:FixedAnnuityMember srt:MaximumMember afl:AflacJapanMember 2024-12-31…
- LNC (LINCOLN NATIONAL CORPORATION)
- FY2025 10-K: …in the contract. As with fixed UL products, policyholders have access, within contractual maximums, to account balances through loans, withdrawals and surrenders. Surrender charges are assessed during the surrender charge period, ranging from 0 to 20 years depending on the product. Our single life VUL offerings…
- FY2025 10-K: …life policies based on the Indiana universal life method as prescribed by the state of Indiana for policies issued before January 1, 2006, the use of a more conservative valuation interest rate on certain annuities prescribed by the states of Indiana and New York. Also, the state of New York prescribes use of the…
- PRI (Primerica, Inc.)
- FY2025 10-K: …which data is available, approximately 52% of U.S. households fall in this range. We believe that we understand the financial needs of the middle-income segment: • Many have inadequate or no life insurance coverage. Individual life insurance sales in the United States declined from 12.9 million policy sales in 1975…
- FY2025 10-K: …sources. If we believe that further information regarding an applicant's medical history is necessary, we use a third-party provider and its trained personnel to contact the applicant to obtain a more detailed medical history. The report resulting from this process is electronically transmitted to us and is evaluated…
- GL (GLOBE LIFE INC.)
- FY2025 10-K: …Method Underwriting Company Products and Target Markets Distribution Direct to Consumer Division Globe Life And Accident Insurance Company McKinney, Texas Individual life and supplemental health limited-benefit insurance including juvenile and senior life coverage and Medicare Supplement to lower middle-income to…
- FY2025 10-K: …were employees, not independent contractors, of Globe Life Inc. and/or American Income Life Insurance Company and were discriminated against on the basis of sex, and that one complainant was also discriminated against on the basis of race. In addition, the EEOC asserts that there is reasonable cause to believe that a…
International Businesses (reported)
- AFL (AFLAC INC)
- FY2025 10-K: …exceed those anticipated in establishing premiums and reserves, the Company's financial results would be adversely affected. The assumptions and estimates that the Company uses in establishing premiums and reserves depend on the Company's judgment regarding the likelihood of future events and are inherently…
- FY2025 10-K: …December 31, 2025, all of the Company's derivative agreement counterparties were investment grade. The Company engages in over-the-counter (OTC) bilateral derivative transactions directly with unaffiliated third parties under International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) agreements and other…
- MET (MetLife, Inc.)
- FY2025 10-K: …infrastructure debt, private asset based finance, residential whole loans, single family rental financing and sustainable & transition finance. Real Estate Broad range of real estate debt and equity investment strategies. Strategies available include agricultural mortgage loans, European value-add opportunistic…
- FY2025 10-K: …of derivatives at the reporting date after taking into consideration the existence of master netting or similar agreements and any collateral received pursuant to such agreements. The Company manages its credit risk related to derivatives by entering into transactions with creditworthy counterparties in jurisdictions…
- AIG (American International Group, Inc.)
- FY2025 10-K: …Commercial segment consists of insurance businesses and operations in Middle East and Africa (EMEA region), the United Kingdom, Japan, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Caribbean, and China. The International Commercial segment also includes the results of Talbot Holdings Ltd. (Talbot) as well as AIG's Global…
- FY2025 10-K: ITEM 9B Other Information 169 ITEM 9C Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections 169 Part III ITEM 10 Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance 170 ITEM 11 Executive Compensation 171 ITEM 12 Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder…
Methodology Note
- Priced-in inversion: the valuation is inverted on the current price to recover the operating-income growth, duration, and steady-state margin the price embeds (ROE for financials, FFO growth for REITs).
- Valuation x-ray: the valuation models, grouped into four families (asset, earnings, relative, growth). Each model is expressed as a price/FV ratio (distance from price), not a point fair-value estimate. The spread across families is the disagreement.
- Economic-unit decomposition (SOTP): each disclosed business unit is assigned its native valuation basis before any multiple is applied. Operating units are valued on enterprise value; funded financial units are valued on their own common equity, because their borrowings fund earning assets rather than levering the parent. A company total is stated only once every material unit carries a supported value and the parent capital bridge reconciles.
- Solvency: net cash/debt, net-debt-to-NOPAT, interest coverage, and share-count CAGR from EDGAR financials (net debt / FFO and fixed-charge coverage for REITs; regulatory-capital framing for financials).
- Peer cohorts: per-segment comparables with deep-linkable SEC filing citations.
Fundamentals sourced from SEC EDGAR filings. Current price from Databento. The priced-in inversion and valuation x-ray are computed by the boothcheck engine; narrative composed by AI from the structured data.