Reinsurance provider RenaissanceRe (NYSE: RNR) will be reporting results this Tuesday after market close. Here’s what investors should know.
RenaissanceRe beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $2.97 billion, up 29.6% year on year. It was a very strong quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates and a solid beat of analysts’ revenue estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting RenaissanceRe’s revenue to decline 19.5% year on year, a reversal from the 33.5% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. RenaissanceRe has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at RenaissanceRe’s peers in the 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 insurance segment, with share prices up 6.4% on average over the last month. RenaissanceRe is up 5.2% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $326.47 (compared to the current share price of $310.94).
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