BERKLEY W R CORP (WRB)
W. R. Berkley Corporation, an insurance holding company, operates as a commercial line writer worldwide. The company operates through Insurance and Reinsurance & Monoline Excess segments. The Insurance segment underwrites commercial insurance business, including excess and surplus lines, admitted lines, and specialty personal lines. This segment also provides accident and health insurance and reinsurance products; insurance for commercial risks; casualty and specialty environmental products; insurance coverages for fine arts and jewelry exposures; excess liability and inland marine coverage for small to medium-sized insureds; and commercial general liability, umbrella, professional liability, directors and officers, commercial property, and surety products, as well as products for technology, and life sciences and travel industries. In addition, it offers cyber risk solutions; crime and fidelity insurance products; medical professional coverages; workers' compensation insurance products; management liability and general insurance products; personal lines insurance solutions, including home, condo/co-op, auto, fine arts and collectibles, liability, collector vehicle, and recreational marine; law enforcement, public officials and educator's legal, and employment practices liability, as well as incidental medical, property, and crime insurance products; at-risk and alternative risk insurance program management services; professional liability; energy and marine risks; and insurance products to the Lloyd's marketplace. The Reinsurance & Monoline Excess segment provides treaty and facultative reinsurance solutions; property and casualty reinsurance products; facultative reinsurance products include automatic, semi-automatic, and individual risk assumed reinsurance; and turnkey products, such as cyber, employment practices liability insurance, liquor liability insurance and violent events. The company was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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- WRB
- SEC CIK
- 0000011544
- Sector
- Financials
- Industry
- Insurance
- Periods
- FY2025 Q1, FY2025 Q4, FY2026, FY2026 Q1, FY2026 Q3, FY2027
- Headquarters
- Greenwich, CT
- Employees
- 8,804
Key figures
- Revenue 3.12B USD
- NetIncome 514.26M USD
- DilutedEPS 1.31 USD/share
Reported figures
- BasicSharesOutstanding 392,264,000.00 shares
- BasicSharesOutstanding 396,929,000.00 shares
- CapitalExpenditure 27.67M USD
- DilutedEPS 1.04 USD/share
- DilutedEPS 1.05 USD/share
- DilutedEPS 1.30 USD/share
- DilutedEPS 1.31 USD/share
- FreeCashFlow 667.86M USD
- GrossProfit 1.75B USD
- InterestExpense 31.71M USD
- InterestExpense 31.73M USD
- InterestIncome 360.29M USD
- InterestIncome 404.33M USD
- NetIncome 417.57M USD
- NetIncome 419.96M USD
- NetIncome 514.26M USD
- NetIncome 515.22M USD
- OperatingCashFlow 667.86M USD
- OperatingCashFlow 743.82M USD
- OperatingIncome 616.10M USD
- OtherMetric 120.38M USD
- OtherMetric 142.71M USD
- OtherMetric 2.69B USD
- OtherMetric 2.78B USD
- OtherMetric 25.11 USD/share
- OtherMetric 25.52 USD/share
- OtherMetric 25.72 USD/share
- OtherMetric 26.13 USD/share
- OtherMetric 27.7 percent
- OtherMetric 27.8 percent
- OtherMetric 28.3 percent
- OtherMetric 28.6 percent
- OtherMetric 3.13B USD
- OtherMetric 3.17B USD
- OtherMetric 3.22B USD
- OtherMetric 3.36B USD
- OtherMetric 3.68B USD
- OtherMetric 3.79B USD
- OtherMetric 30.3 percent
- OtherMetric 394.63M USD
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Drivers
- Average rate increases excluding workers' compensation were approximately 7.2%
- Current accident year combined ratio before catastrophe losses of 2.4 loss ratio points wa
- Gross and net premiums written in the insurance segment increased by 4.5% and 3.2%, respec
- Net investment income grew 12.2%, driven by a higher level of invested assets from continu
Corporate events
- The Company paid regular dividends of $33.7 million in the first quarter of 2026
- The Company repurchased 4,471,634 shares of its common stock for $302 million during the t
Quotes
- “Net investment income grew by 12.2%, driven by a higher level of invested assets…”
- “Our 88.3% accident year combined ratio excluding catastrophe losses demonstrated…”
- “Our balance sheet remains a source of strength, and we prioritized effective cap…”
- “The Company continued to deliver outstanding results in the first quarter of 202…”