SELECTIVE INSURANCE GROUP, INC
At today's price, SELECTIVE INSURANCE GROUP, INC (SIGI) is priced for 11.7% 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.
• Selective is a regional property-and-casualty insurer built around standard commercial lines, with smaller personal-lines and excess-and-surplus books and an investment portfolio, and the number that decides its value is the return it earns on capital, not a sales multiple. • The price pays about 1.6 times book value and assumes the insurer sustains a return on equity near 11.4%, below the roughly 13.4% it has recently earned, which is the market pricing in some normalization rather than extra
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360 institutional managers reported holding SIGI in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 84% of the company; the top 10 hold 49%. 55 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, AQR Capital, among others. On the short side, 1.4M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 2% of shares outstanding (2.8 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.
SIGI's share count is about flat over the past five years ($174.12M of repurchases, offset by issuance). It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (17 and counting), raised 4 years straight; the current rate is $1.57 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $241.10M in dividends and $148.13M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at SIGI over the trailing three years: 2024: 3 buys totaling $471k; 2025: 9 buys totaling $1.50M; 2026: 1 buy totaling $51k. 20 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.
SIGI's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-04 | -1.3% | +1.1% |
| 2023-11-03 | +1.2% | -2.7% |
| 2024-02-10 | +3.1% | +1.0% |
| 2024-05-03 | -5.8% | -5.0% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
SIGI's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-14 (items 5.02); 2026-04-30 (items 5.07); 2026-04-22 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-01-30 (items 5.03, 9.01); 2026-01-29 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 28, 2026
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