Insurance Earnings So Far 2Q07 ? Part I – The Aleph Blog

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Posted on 23 July 2007 by David Merkel

I’ll give this one more quarter to see how well my readers like this, but here are the earnings in insurance so far this quarter.? As you can tell, I am doing it a little different this time, in providing a file, and less qualitative commentary.? It’s the same data that I provided last time, but now you can do your own slicing and dicing.

What affects insurance equity prices when earnings are released?? Three things: guidance changes (most powerful), earnings surprises (powerful), and revenue growth. (When the market can’t decide otherwise, they like to see top line growth.? I think that’s dumb, but give the market what it wants, then it will change what it wants on you…)

Trends so far:

Exposure to UK property with the floods is a negative.
Personal lines are doing badly, both bottom and top lines, aside from specialty areas.
Commercial lines are still winning.? When do premiums finally get below technical pricing levels?
I like Brown and Brown.? Wish I owned some.? Hope no one buys it tomorrow. 🙂
Mortgage insurers are weak, but how much can they really get whacked when they are so near book value?

Full disclosure: long ALL

2 thoughts on “Insurance Earnings So Far 2Q07 ? Part I”

prcp37t says:

25 July 2007 at 7:52 am

David,
Please continue to do this, I find it very helpful.
PaulinKansasCity says:

25 July 2007 at 10:24 pm

thanks for this david

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