Property casualty insurer W. R. Berkley (NYSE: WRB) will be reporting earnings this Monday after market hours. Here’s what to look for.
W. R. Berkley missed analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $3.72 billion, up 1.2% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates but a significant miss of analysts’ book value per share estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting W. R. Berkley’s revenue to grow 1.8% year on year, slowing from the 10.8% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business will stay the course heading into earnings. W. R. Berkley has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at W. R. Berkley’s peers in the insurance segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Travelers posted flat year-on-year revenue, beating analysts’ expectations by 0.7%, and Progressive reported revenues up 3%, falling short of estimates by 0.8%. Progressive traded down 4.1% following the results.
Read our full analysis of Travelers’s results here and Progressive’s results here.
Investors in the insurance segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices flat over the last month. W. R. Berkley is up 7% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $69.06 (compared to the current share price of $74.87).
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