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Somewhat sheltered from macro noise and tariffs. Big beneficiary of AI, right now, in underwriting and efficiencies. Great ROE of 16%, even with severe weather and elevated losses in the last year. Quality name, great compounder.
Can really start to surface value with RSA acquisition in UK. Trades at 14.7x on 2026 earnings, growing at 12.6% -- a bit over 1 on PEG, but you get there if you add the dividend. Yield is 1.9%.
All the insurance names, both in Canada and the US, continue to work. If interest rates do, in fact, go higher, that will only be beneficial for lifecos and other insurers. The chart looks fantastic. Good run, so there is some weakening in the intermediate term.
If a long-term holding, best thing you can do is sit on your hands and do nothing except participate in the DRIP program. Especially if he's right on the broader call of rates being 8-10% in the secular bear market of 2030-40, should be a big tailwind for insurers.
EPS of $4.93 beat estimates of $4.18 and revenues of $5.76B missed estiamtes of $5.93B. Its combined ratio was solid at 86.5%, mostly due to solid underlying results across all lines of business. Its ROE was 16.5%, and it incurred $1.5B in catastrophe losses from several natural disasters over the past year. There were no mentions of the LA wildfires in its earnings. As a shareholder, we would be very pleased with these results and the market seems to like the results. It trades at 17.5X forward earnings, on the higher end of its historical average, but the company continues to execute and both margins and free cash flow are great. We would be comfortable slowly averaging in here for a long-term hold.
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Would recommend buying. Best management in Canadian financial services. Excellent company that is good for long term investors.