ESSENT GROUP LTD.
At today's price, ESSENT GROUP LTD. (ESNT) is priced for 9.8% return on equity. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Essent is a well-capitalized mortgage insurer trading at about 0.95 times its $61.20 book value while earning a 12.0% annualized return on equity, with $247.9 billion of insurance in force and high 84.7% persistency extending its premium stream. • The biggest specific risk is credit-cycle sensitivity: returns are strong in benign conditions but the business pays claims when borrowers default and home prices fall, and it reserves only on defaults received, not on future losses, so a housing dow
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352 institutional managers reported holding ESNT in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 92% of the company; the top 10 hold 56%. 43 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, Dimensional Fund Advisors, among others. On the short side, 2.5M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 3% of shares outstanding (2.7 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
ESNT has cut its share count 16.3% over the past five years, spending $1.18B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has for 7 years running, raised 6 years straight; the current rate is $1.24 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $325.57M in dividends and $889.92M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at ESNT over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 13 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
ESNT's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-09 | +3.2% | -7.5% |
| 2023-11-08 | +2.7% | +10.6% |
| 2024-02-17 | -2.2% | +2.1% |
| 2024-05-08 | +0.5% | -0.3% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
ESNT's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-08 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-02-13 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2025-11-07 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2025-08-08 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2025-05-09 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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