Specialty insurance company Markel Group (NYSE: MKL) will be reporting results this Wednesday after market hours. Here’s what you need to know.
Markel Group missed analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $3.55 billion, flat year on year. It was a disappointing quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ net premiums earned estimates and a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Markel Group’s revenue to decline 1.2% year on year, a reversal from the 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 will 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 Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. First American Financial delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 15%, beating analysts’ expectations by 3.4%, and RLI reported revenues up 5%, topping estimates by 1%. First American Financial traded down 2.2% following the results while RLI was up 3.7%.
Read our full analysis of First American Financial’s results here and RLI’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the property & casualty insurance segment, with share prices up 4.7% on average over the last month. Markel Group is up 1.7% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $1,960 (compared to the current share price of $1,990).
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