Travelers Companies, Inc. (TRV): what the price assumes
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $369.90, Travelers Companies, Inc. (TRV) is priced for 14.2% 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 2026-07-11.
Generated: 2026-08-30 · Source: https://boothcheck.com/report/TRV
Headline
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Ticker | TRV |
| Company | Travelers Companies, Inc. |
| Sector / Industry | Financial Services / Insurance |
| Current price | $369.90/sh |
| Composition | Business Insurance 53% / Bond & Specialty Insurance 9% / Personal Insurance 37% |
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 | 14.2% |
| Return on equity now | 19.0% |
| ROE gap | -4.8pp |
| Price-to-book | 2.33x |
Solve inputs: computed at a 8.4% 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 | +0.89σ |
| cohort percentile (of 78 peers) | 71 |
| sustained it ~10 years at this level | 63% |
| implied end-window share | 0% |
Valuation X-Ray
The price is supported by asset-based and earnings-power 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 | 0.86x | 3 | justifies |
| Earnings | 0.92x | 1 | justifies |
| Relative | — | 0 | — |
| Growth | — | 0 | — |
Families that justify the price: Asset, Earnings
The models below discount at their own flat-beta convention rates (cost of equity 9.3%, WACC 5.0%); the inversion above states its own rate.
Per-Model Detail (n=4)
| Model | Family | FV | Price/FV | Applicable | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DCF Perpetual Growth | Growth | — | — | no | — |
| Bank Fair Value (P/TBV) | — | $650.57 | 0.57x | yes | TBVPS $137.77 × 4.72x (ROE (TTM) 25.1% / CoE 9.3%, g=5.0% (sustainable: 65% retention × ROE, 5% cap; not the terminal-growth assumption)) |
| Relative Valuation | Relative | — | — | no | P/E 11x (static sector reference · 2026-04), scenarios: 9.3x / 11.0x / 12.7x (bear / base = reference held flat / bull), EV/EBITDA 22x |
| Simple DDM | Growth | — | — | no | — |
| Two-Stage DDM | Growth | — | — | no | — |
| Simple Excess Return | Asset | $430.36 | 0.86x | yes | BV/sh $158.80, ROE (TTM) 25.1%, ke 9.3% |
| Two-Stage Excess Return | Asset | $712.43 | 0.52x | yes | 5yr excess ROE then converge to ke=9.3% |
| Discounted Future Market Cap | Growth | — | — | no | Rev $49.0B, growth 2% (input: historical growth; tapered), Terminal P/S: 1.3x / 1.6x / 1.8x (bear / base = today's held flat / bull, cap 8x) |
| Peter Lynch Fair Value | Relative | — | — | no | EPS $37.24, growth 1% (input: historical EPS growth), PEG=7.60 (Overvalued) |
| Margin Trajectory | Growth | — | — | no | — |
| Earnings Power Value | Earnings | — | — | no | — |
| Residual Income | Asset | — | — | no | — |
| Graham Number | Asset | $364.77 | 1.01x | yes | √(22.5 × EPS $37.24 × BVPS $158.80) — 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 $37.24 × (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 $37.24 × (PEG 1.5 × growth 25.0% (input: historical EPS growth)) → PE 37.5x |
| Earnings Yield | Earnings | $402.59 | 0.92x | yes | EPS $37.24 / 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business Insurance | financial | equity | $26.0b | — | withheld | unresolved standalone equity facts required |
| Bond & Specialty Insurance | financial | equity | $4.6b | — | withheld | unresolved standalone equity facts required |
| Personal Insurance | financial | equity | $18.3b | — | 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) | -3.0% |
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
- Travelers is a three-segment property and casualty franchise that wrote $44.4 billion of gross premiums in FY2025, up 3 percent, split across business insurance at $22.7 billion, personal insurance at $17.4 billion, and bond and specialty at $4.3 billion, per the FY2025 10-K (accession 0000086312-26-000065).
- The defining risk is catastrophe volatility: pre-tax catastrophe losses were $761 million in Q1 FY2026 against $2.27 billion in the year-ago quarter, a swing that took quarterly EPS from $1.70 to $7.78.
- The next information event is the Q2 FY2026 report on July 17, 2026, a hurricane-season quarter where the questions are the catastrophe load and whether renewal pricing and underwriting margins are holding.
Bull Case
Start with the part of Travelers that has nothing to do with weather. The company sits on an investment portfolio that averaged $104.2 billion in 2025, and the income from it has been climbing as older bonds roll off and get reinvested at today's rates: pre-tax net investment income rose from $2.92 billion in 2023 to $3.59 billion in 2024 to $3.96 billion in 2025, with the average pre-tax yield moving from 3.2 percent to 3.8 percent over the same stretch, per the FY2025 10-K. The filing states plainly that "Net investment income is a material contributor to the Company's results of operations" (accession 0000086312-26-000065), and this contributor compounds quietly regardless of what the underwriting cycle does. Float, the premium dollars held between collection and claim payment, is earning more per dollar than it has in years, and the portfolio keeps growing as premiums grow.
The underwriting side is earning its keep too. The Q1 FY2026 combined ratio came in at 88.6 percent, meaning Travelers kept about 11 cents of underwriting profit on every premium dollar before investment income, with the underlying figure (stripping catastrophes and reserve changes) at 85.3 percent. That profitability spans all three segments rather than leaning on one: the 10-K shows FY2025 gross written premiums of $22.7 billion in Business Insurance, $4.3 billion in Bond & Specialty, and $17.4 billion in Personal Insurance, with total gross premiums up 3 percent over 2024. The bond and specialty book deserves a word: it is a surety and management-liability franchise that is 86.7 percent domestic with its largest state at under 10 percent of premiums, per the 10-K's geographic breakdown, which is a diversified, fee-like corner of insurance that most personal-lines rivals do not have.
Then there is what management does with the profits. Over the trailing twelve months Travelers returned $5.53 billion to shareholders, $976 million in dividends and $4.55 billion in buybacks, the latter equal to roughly 60 percent of net income, and the share count is falling. The company's stated framework, from its Q3 2025 10-Q, is that "generally over time, the combination of dividends to common shareholders and common share repurchases will likely not exceed net income" (accession 0000086312-25-000069), with a carve-out to retain more capital when premium growth demands it. At 9.7 times trailing earnings against a sector median near 11, each repurchased share retires more earnings power than the average financial-sector buyback does. A company buying back its own stock this aggressively at a single-digit multiple, while returns on equity run near 19 percent, is telling you what it thinks the business is worth.
Bear Case
The structural truth a holder has to sit with is this: Travelers underwrites weather, and the earnings the market is capitalizing arrived in quarters when the weather cooperated. The FY2025 10-K is candid about the exposure: "The Company has geographic exposure to catastrophe losses, which include hurricanes, tornadoes and other windstorms, earthquakes, hail, wildfires, severe winter weather, floods, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, solar flares and other naturally-occurring events" (accession 0000086312-26-000065). Q1 FY2026 showed both sides of that coin in a single comparison: catastrophe losses of $761 million produced $7.78 of quarterly EPS, while the year-ago quarter's $2.27 billion of catastrophe losses left just $1.70. The earning power did not change between those two quarters. The weather did. The same 10-K warns that high catastrophe losses, driven partly by "increased concentrations of insured exposures in catastrophe-prone areas and changing climate conditions", could materially affect results, ratings, and the cost of reinsurance. That is not boilerplate for a company whose largest segment after commercial lines is personal home and auto insurance.
The cycle is the second problem, and it is already visible in the numbers analysts are writing down. Consensus for Q2 FY2026 sits at $4.87 of diluted EPS, down about 25 percent from $6.51 a year earlier, and the debate under that number is whether commercial pricing has rolled over while personal-lines competition re-intensifies. The peer filings say the fight is real: Progressive's 10-K reports its personal auto business experienced decreases in retention during 2025 amid increased shopping, and Cincinnati Financial's 10-K discloses personal lines new business written premiums fell $128 million, or 21 percent, in 2025 as competitors reposition on rate. When the two most disciplined personal-lines competitors are respectively losing retention and walking away from business, the industry is telling you the easy rate gains are behind it. Long-tail reserves add a slower-moving risk: the 10-K notes that "The emergence of a greater number of asbestos claims beyond that which is anticipated may result in adverse loss reserve development", a reminder that decades-old policies still reach into current earnings.
Now connect that to the price. At roughly 2.3 times book, today's price needs Travelers to sustain a return on equity of about 14.3 percent for years; it has recently been earning about 19.1 percent, so there is cushion, but only about 62 percent of firms earning returns at this level have sustained them for a decade. The bear case is not that Travelers fails. It is that underwriting margins mean-revert as pricing softens and catastrophe loads normalize, returns drift down toward the pack, and the price-to-book multiple the market pays compresses along with them. The 10-K itself names one mechanism: "our competitive position could be impacted if we are unable to deploy, in a cost effective and competitive manner, technology such as artificial intelligence and machine learning", because underwriting edge is increasingly a data-and-models contest where scale advantages can erode quickly. Paying an upper-half peer multiple for returns at a cyclical high is a bet that this cycle fades slowly. Cycles are not known for their courtesy.
Valuation
An insurer is priced off the return it earns on its capital, so the place to start is price against book value. At $338.86 (July 2026), the market is paying roughly 2.3 times book value per share of $146.46, and that price embeds an assumption: Travelers sustains a return on equity of about 14.3 percent going forward. Against what the company has recently been earning, about 19.1 percent, the assumption is within reach of its own record rather than a stretch beyond it. The demanding parts are relative: the multiple sits in the upper half of its peer group's price-to-book, and among companies that have earned returns at this level, only about 62 percent sustained them for a decade. The bet is not that Travelers becomes something better than it is. It is that the current version persists.
The valuation methods, read as a group, mostly support the price. The asset-value, earnings-power, and peer-multiple families each land above where the stock trades, and only the forward-growth methods read it as slightly rich. That pattern describes a value-supported name rather than a growth bet: at 9.7 times trailing earnings against a sector median of 11, the market is charging less per dollar of current profit than it does for the typical financial, and the premium shows up only in the price-to-book lens, where the strong recent returns have inflated the denominator's earning power. The inputs under those methods are filed, not modeled: the FY2025 10-K reports gross written premiums of $44.4 billion, up 3 percent over 2024 (accession 0000086312-26-000065), and pre-tax net investment income of $3.96 billion on average investments of $104.2 billion at a 3.8 percent average pre-tax yield, a yield that has risen for two consecutive years as the bond portfolio reprices.
The balance-sheet frame for an insurer is capital and payout rather than net debt, and on that frame the company returned about 63 percent of latest-fiscal-year earnings as dividends plus buybacks, $5.53 billion over the trailing twelve months, while the share count declined. Book value compounds under the buyback; the multiple takes care of itself only if the returns hold. What has to be true at today's price is a 14 percent-plus return on equity sustained through a softening pricing cycle and an ordinary run of catastrophe seasons, and the company currently earns comfortably above that bar. The distance between 19 percent earned and 14 percent required is the margin the price leaves for the cycle to take back.
Catalysts
The near-term calendar centers on July 17, 2026, when Travelers reports second-quarter results before the market opens with a call at 9 a.m. ET. Consensus sits at $4.87 of diluted EPS, down about 25 percent from $6.51 in the year-ago quarter, reflecting expectations of a heavier seasonal catastrophe load and softer margins rather than any single company-specific problem. The recent record leans the other way: Travelers has beaten consensus EPS in each of its last four reports, most recently in April when Q1 core income of $1.7 billion, or $7.71 per diluted share, cleared the $6.80 estimate on a core return on equity of 19.7 percent, helped by catastrophe losses of $761 million versus $2.27 billion a year earlier and after-tax net investment income up 9 percent to $833 million.
Analyst posture is split in a way that maps cleanly onto the cycle debate. Piper Sandler raised its price target from $329 to $340 with an Overweight rating after the Q1 print, citing the sub-90 combined ratio and underwriting income across all segments; the broader street counts 14 buy or outperform ratings against 16 holds and 3 underperforms. The bulls are underwriting margin durability; the holds are waiting to see whether commercial renewal pricing keeps pace with loss-cost inflation into the second half.
Through the August-to-October hurricane season, the items that move the story are the quarterly catastrophe load, the underlying combined ratio against Q1's 85.3 percent, renewal rate change in Business Insurance, and the trajectory of net investment income as maturing bonds reinvest at higher yields. Capital return runs alongside: buybacks were $1.985 billion in Q1, and the pace of repurchases in the back half will signal how management weighs its own stock against premium growth.
Peer Cohorts (Per Segment, With Filing Citations)
Business Insurance (reported)
- CB (Chubb Limited)
- FY2025 10-K: …• ESIS Inc. (ESIS) is an in-house third-party claims administrator that performs claims management and risk control services for domestic and international organizations as well as for the North America Commercial P&C Insurance segment. ESIS services include comprehensive medical managed care; integrated disability…
- FY2025 10-K: …small and mid-market retail and E&S, and property. Consumer insurance growth reflects strong new business and retention, including positive rate and exposure increases. ◦ Life Insurance segment net premiums written increased 15.1 percent, or 17.3 percent in constant dollars, due to growth in international life of…
- HIG (The Hartford Insurance Group, Inc.)
- FY2025 10-K: …to be businesses with an annual payroll under $20, revenues under $50 and property values less than $20 per location. The Company serves a broad range of small businesses, with an average written premium of less than $5 thousand per policy. Primary coverages provided include workers' compensation, property, general…
- FY2025 10-K: …tailored programs to those seeking a loss sensitive solution where premiums are adjustable based on loss experience. In addition to flexible premium structures, captive programs may offer potential tax advantages, enable a greater degree of self-insurance, and allow clients to retain underwriting profits with…
- CINF (CINCINNATI FINANCIAL CORPORATION)
- FY2025 10-K: …preferences on the insurance industry and the markets in which we operate, could harm our ability to maintain or increase our business volumes and profitability • Inability to defer policy acquisition costs for any business segment if pricing and loss trends would lead management to conclude that the segment could…
- FY2025 10-K: …of our policy processing system. Personal lines activities are further supported by headquarters associates assigned to individual agencies. Excess and Surplus Lines Insurance Segment The excess and surplus lines segment contributed net earned premiums of $698 million to 2025 consolidated total revenues, or 5.5% of…
- CNA (CNA FINANCIAL CORP)
- FY2025 10-K: …selective underwriting standards and relatively high premium rates. We may lose business to competitors offering competitive insurance products at lower prices. As a result, our premium levels and expense ratio could be materially adversely impacted. We market our insurance products worldwide primarily through…
- FY2025 10-K: …both as it relates to rate and service. We compete with a large number of stock and mutual insurance companies, as well as other entities, for both distributors and customers. Our commercial property and casualty underwriting operations presence in the United States of America (U.S.) consists of field underwriting…
- WRB (W. R. BERKLEY CORP)
- FY2025 10-K: …and $ 463 million in 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively, from foreign countries. (3) Corporate, other and eliminations represent corporate revenues and expenses and certain other items that are not allocated to business segments. 116 Net premiums earned by major line of business were as follows: (In thousands) 2025…
- FY2025 10-K: …lines of business continue to decrease. We face significant competitive pressures in our businesses, which can pressure premium rates in certain areas and could harm our ability to maintain or increase our profitability and premium volume in some parts of our business. We compete with a large number of other…
- ACGL (Arch Capital Group Ltd.)
- FY2025 10-K: …the designation of a board committee or member and senior management function to be accountable for the company's assessment and management of the financial risks from climate change. In 2021, NYDFS issued additional guidance for New York Domestic Insurers on Managing the Financial Risks from Climate Change that…
- FY2025 10-K: …from the insured or insurer a set fee or brokerage commission usually equal to a percentage of gross premiums. Our insurance group may enter into contingent commission arrangements with some brokers that provide for the payment of additional commissions based on volume or profitability of business. It is the practice…
- AXS (AXIS CAPITAL HOLDINGS LIMITED)
- FY2025 10-K: …following are the lines of business in our insurance segment: • Professional Lines: provides directors' and officers' liability, errors and omissions liability, employment practices liability, fiduciary liability, crime, professional indemnity, medical malpractice, environmental liability risks predominantly in the…
- FY2025 10-K: …other carriers. We believe we can achieve positive differentiation through underwriting expertise in our chosen lines of business and market segments, providing customized solutions for our strategic partners and top caliber claims service levels to our customers. In addition, our investment in building an agile…
- SIGI (SELECTIVE INSURANCE GROUP, INC)
- FY2025 10-K: …First Notice of Loss process. We expect these changes to improve adjusters' efficiency, enhance overall customer experience, and ensure that we match each claim to an appropriately-skilled adjuster. Our Special Investigations Unit ("SIU") investigates potential insurance fraud and abuse, reporting findings as…
- FY2025 10-K: …of the first layer through a 20% co-participation. The 2025 treaty year deposit premium decreased, primarily due to increased retention and co-participation, partially offset by higher projected subject-earned premium due to growth of our book of business. To complement our key reinsurance programs and provide…
Bond & Specialty Insurance (reported)
- CB (Chubb Limited)
- FY2025 10-K: …services including personal use, boarding, and training. Coverages include farm and ranch structures, automobile and other vehicle coverages, and machinery and other equipment coverages. Competitive Environment Rain and Hail primarily operates in a federally regulated program where all approved providers offer the…
- FY2025 10-K: …and underwrites assumed loss portfolio transfer (LPT) contracts in which insured loss events have occurred prior to the inception of the contract. • Property provides products and services including primary, quota share and excess all-risk insurance, risk management programs and services, commercial, inland marine,…
- WRB (W. R. BERKLEY CORP)
- FY2025 10-K: …and $ 463 million in 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively, from foreign countries. (3) Corporate, other and eliminations represent corporate revenues and expenses and certain other items that are not allocated to business segments. 116 Net premiums earned by major line of business were as follows: (In thousands) 2025…
- FY2025 10-K: …in specialist classes of business including property, professional indemnity and financial lines. Berkley Surety provides a full spectrum of surety bonds for construction, environmental and commercial surety accounts in the U.S. and Canada, through an independent agency and broker platform across seven field…
- ACGL (Arch Capital Group Ltd.)
- FY2025 10-K: …surety bonds. Arch Insurance Company and Arch Reinsurance Company are approved by BFS as "Certified Companies" meaning that they are permitted to insure and reinsure surety bond business, including federal surety bonds, subject to certain underwriting restrictions and BFS supervision. In 2024, Arch Re Bermuda was…
- FY2025 10-K: …acgl:ShortTailedLinesMember acgl:ReinsuranceSegmentMember 2024-01-01 2024-12-31 0000947484 us-gaap:OperatingSegmentsMember acgl:PropertyCatastropheMember acgl:ShortTailedLinesMember acgl:ReinsuranceSegmentMember 2024-01-01 2024-12-31 0000947484 us-gaap:OperatingSegmentsMember acgl:CasualtyMember…
- AXS (AXIS CAPITAL HOLDINGS LIMITED)
- FY2025 10-K: …in the form of a collateralization requirement upon a ratings downgrade. We also provide protection against sovereign default or sovereign actions that result in impairment of cross-border investments for banks and corporations. Our contracts generally include conditions precedent to our liability relating to the…
- FY2025 10-K: IS Insurance Company, AXIS Surplus Insurance Company and AXIS Reinsurance Company and Citibank Europe plc (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 22, 2015). 10.43 Amendment to Master Reimbursement Agreement dated March 27, 2017 by and among AXIS…
- RLI (RLI Corp)
- FY2025 10-K: …concentration of risks exposed to catastrophic events. The surety segment specializes in writing small to medium-sized contract surety coverages, including payment and performance bonds. We offer a variety of commercial surety bonds for medium to large-sized businesses across a broad spectrum of industries,…
- FY2025 10-K: …to medium-sized design, technical, computer and other miscellaneous professionals. Our product suite for these customers also includes a full array of multi-peril package products including general liability, property, automobile, excess liability and workers' compensation coverages. Small Commercial Our small…
- HIG (The Hartford Insurance Group, Inc.)
- FY2025 10-K: …tailored programs to those seeking a loss sensitive solution where premiums are adjustable based on loss experience. In addition to flexible premium structures, captive programs may offer potential tax advantages, enable a greater degree of self-insurance, and allow clients to retain underwriting profits with…
- FY2025 10-K: …to be businesses with an annual payroll under $20, revenues under $50 and property values less than $20 per location. The Company serves a broad range of small businesses, with an average written premium of less than $5 thousand per policy. Primary coverages provided include workers' compensation, property, general…
- MKL (MARKEL GROUP INC.)
- FY2025 10-K: …businesses, retail stores, and restaurants. Credit and Surety Our credit and surety products consist primarily of trade credit and prepayment coverage and a range of bonds and guarantees that support contractual obligations, contractual performance, and judicial proceedings, as well as other coverages for specific…
- FY2025 10-K: …coverages, including catastrophe-exposed property risks such as earthquake and wind on both a primary and excess basis. Catastrophe-exposed property risks can present higher severity than more standard property risks due to the impacts from earthquakes and severe weather events such as hurricanes, convective storms,…
Personal Insurance (reported)
- ALL (ALLSTATE CORP)
- FY2025 10-K: …1 2025 Form 10-K Item 1. Business Allstate at a Glance We empower customers with protection to help them achieve their hopes and dreams We provide affordable, simple and connected protection solutions We create opportunity for our team, economic value for our shareholders and improve communities 211 million policies…
- FY2025 10-K: …that reflects the cost and expense of providing the insurance, the insurer may be able to manage its risk of loss by being more selective in the type of business it underwrites. When a location significantly restricts both underwriting and pricing, it becomes more difficult for an insurer to maintain its targeted…
- PGR (PROGRESSIVE CORP/OH/)
- FY2025 10-K: …auto business experienced decreases in retention during 2025, compared to 2024. We believe the driver of these changes was due to a shift in the mix of business, including changes in billing plans offered to customers, and increased shopping and price sensitivity where we saw an increase in the number of existing…
- FY2025 10-K: …in the current and prior periods, are generally earned as revenue over the life of the policy using a daily earnings convention. Policies in force, our preferred measure of growth since it removes the variability due to rate changes or mix shifts, represents all policies for which coverage was in effect as of the end…
- CINF (CINCINNATI FINANCIAL CORPORATION)
- FY2025 10-K: …businesses. Since economic activity related to construction, which can heavily influence insured exposures of contractors, may experience cycles that vary significantly with the economy as a whole, our commercial lines premium trends could vary from commercial lines premium trends for the property casualty insurance…
- FY2025 10-K: …increase reflects our response to inflation effects that increase the cost of building materials to repair damaged homes. Personal lines new business written premiums decreased by $128 million, or 21%, during 2025, compared with 2024. We believe we maintained underwriting and pricing discipline across all personal…
- KMPR (Kemper Corporation)
- FY2025 10-K: …primarily through the Specialty Property & Casualty Insurance segment. The Specialty Property & Casualty Insurance segment distributes these products primarily through independent agents and brokers who are paid commissions for their services, but also distributes a smaller portion of these products through direct to…
- FY2025 10-K: …cases, casualty insurance also obligates the insurance company to provide a defense for the insured in litigation arising out of events covered by the policy. Specialty Property & Casualty Insurance The Specialty Property & Casualty Insurance segment, based in Chicago, Illinois, conducts business in 22 states under…
- MCY (MERCURY GENERAL CORP)
- FY2025 10-K: C on the private passenger automobile line of insurance business. These rate increases became effective in February 2024. The private passenger automobile line of insurance business of MIC and CAIC represented approximately 49% and 6%, respectively, of the Company's total net premiums earned in 2025. • In March 2024,…
- FY2025 10-K: : collision, property damage, bodily injury ("BI"), comprehensive, personal injury protection ("PIP"), underinsured and uninsured motorist, and other hazards. 1 The Company offers the following types of homeowners coverage: dwelling, liability, personal property, and other coverages. The following table presents the…
- HIG (The Hartford Insurance Group, Inc.)
- FY2025 10-K: …updated through the introduction of Prevail. Personal Insurance works with carrier partners to provide risk protection options for AARP members with needs beyond the company's current product offering. Marketing and Distribution Personal Insurance reaches diverse customers through multiple distribution channels,…
- FY2025 10-K: …data and actuarial insights to enhance risk selection. The Company seeks to drive greater efficiency, shorten the quoting process and improve the customer's experience through expanded use of digital and artificial intelligence capabilities. Global specialty also writes business in the London market via its Lloyd's…
- ORI (OLD REPUBLIC INTERNATIONAL CORP)
- FY2025 10-K: …various underwriting and loss mitigation techniques such as utilization of policy deductibles, captive insurance risk-sharing arrangements, self-insured retentions, retrospective rating, and policyholder dividend plans. These underwriting techniques are intended to better correlate premium charges with the ultimate…
- FY2025 10-K: …increases premiums with an offset to commissions, both of which are subject to deferral and amortization over the life of the policy. Note 5 - Loss and Loss Adjustment Expenses The following table shows changes in aggregate reserves for the Company's loss and loss adjustment expenses: Years Ended December 31: 2025…
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.
Sources
Q1 FY2026 earnings release · Barchart earnings preview via Yahoo Finance · company announcement via StockTitan · Barchart · Q1 FY2026 earnings release; Investing.com · Investing.com · TIKR