Stock · WRB · Financial Services
United States · Large Cap · listed since 1984 · Revenue 12 mo. $18B
Price as of 11/06/2026
W. R. Berkley Corporation, an insurance holding company, operates as a commercial line writer worldwide.
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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Summary
59.1 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
Book value €8B, market value €24.6B (P/B 3.1). At a 9% discount rate, the premium over book value only pays off with a lasting 27.9% return on equity.
Required return on equity per year
27.9%
no perpetual growth
Price to book 3.10×, above its usual range.
Middle half of 19 quarters: 2.63× to 2.96×, median 2.72×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
No indication in the stored figures.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
Since the last quarter
Q2 → Q3 2026
3 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., EBIT margin, Shares outstanding
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 18.34% | 12.46% | Rank 78 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 21.33% | 59.04% | Rank 35 |
| EBIT margin | 15.87% | 23.06% | Rank 27 |
| FCF margin | 23.59% | 19.82% | Rank 57 |
| Gross margin | 19.81% | 65.53% | Rank 4 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 7.82% | 7.39% | Rank 51 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | 10.61% | 15.20% | Rank 37 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | 28.97% | 15.17% | Rank 79 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 1.16% | 1.25% | Rank 47 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 5.93% | 6.47% | Rank 42 |
| FCF yield | 12.64% | 7.16% | Rank 71 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 0.10 | 2.82 | Rank 85 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 0.65 | 14.24 | Rank 99 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | −8.73% | 7.80% | Rank 22 |
| Share price, 6 months | 15.02% | 8.71% | Rank 73 |
| Share price, 3 months | 10.20% | 0.45% | Rank 82 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −3.67% | −10.68% | Rank 82 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | 0.40% | 1.23% | Rank 60 |
| Change in share countlower is better | −1.01% | −0.60% | Rank 55 |
| Dividend streak in years | 3 | 5 | Rank 35 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | −1.62% | 0.00% | Rank 26 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 22.01% | 9.21% | Rank 73 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | −10.93 | 0.12 | Rank 87 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 0.29 | 0.90 | Rank 79 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 22.21% | 25.95% | Rank 73 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | Net income | Return on equity | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 7.7 | $601.9M | 11.9% | 434M |
| 2017 | 8.0 | $549.1M | 10.1% | 435M |
| 2018 | 7.7 | $640.7M | 11.8% | 433M |
| 2019 | 7.9 | $681.9M | 11.2% | 435M |
| 2020 | 8.1 | $530.7M | 8.4% | 425M |
| 2021 | 9.5 | $1.0B | 15.4% | 420M |
| 2022 | 11.2 | $1.4B | 20.5% | 419M |
| 2023 | 12.1 | $1.4B | 18.5% | 410M |
| 2024 | 13.6 | $1.8B | 20.9% | 403M |
| 2025 | 14.7 | $1.8B | 18.3% | 399M |
3 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
W. R. Berkley Corp mainly meets criteria in the Valuation category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
This is how the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set, calculates the points for W. R. Berkley Corp. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
3 of 7 rules met
5 of 11 points
The rule “Exclusion: financial and real estate stocks” applies. The stock is therefore not rated regardless of the points scored.
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Selected fundamental metrics for W. R. Berkley Corp.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 16.9 | 15.2 |
| P/B ratio | 3.1 | 1.8 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 18.3% | 12.5% |
| Equity ratio | 22.0% | 9.2% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 0.29 | 0.90 |
| Dividend yield | 2.5% | 3.3% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| WRB | W. R. Berkley Corpthis page | |
| CINF | Cincinnati Financial Corporation | Low4.5 |
| MKL | Markel Corporation | locked |
| L | Loews Corp | Low2.7 |
| AIZ | Assurant, Inc. | locked |
| CNA | CNA Financial Corporation | locked |
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