Specialty insurance company Markel Group (NYSE: MKL) will be reporting results this Tuesday after the bell. Here’s what to look for.
Markel Group beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $4.01 billion, up 7.6% year on year. It was an exceptional quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates and a solid beat of analysts’ net premiums earned estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Markel Group’s revenue to grow 2.6% year on year, improving from its flat revenue in the same quarter last year.
The majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Markel Group has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Markel Group’s peers in the property & casualty insurance segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Stewart Information Services delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 27.7%, beating analysts’ expectations by 4.7%, and First American Financial reported revenues up 16.2%, topping estimates by 2.4%. Stewart Information Services traded up 3.9% following the results while First American Financial was also up 3.5%.
Read our full analysis of Stewart Information Services’s results here and First American Financial’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the property & casualty insurance segment, with share prices up 6.4% on average over the last month. Markel Group is up 1.4% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $2,069 (compared to the current share price of $1,920).
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