Don't Buy Reinsurance Before Checking Its Fundamentals!

By Chris Stiles • Friday, May 05 15:01 • Permanent Link

Reinsurance marked a 7.6% change today, compared to 2.0% for the S&P 500. Is it a good value at today's price of $145.48? Only an in-depth analysis can answer that question, but here are some facts that can give you an idea:

Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated engages in reinsurance business.
Reinsurance belongs to the Finance sector, which has an average price to earnings (P/E) ratio of 14.34 and an average price to book (P/B) of 1.57
The company's P/B ratio is 2.34
Reinsurance has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 16.0 based on its trailing 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $9.07 per share
Its forward P/E ratio is 8.3, based on its forward earnings per share (EPS) of $17.6
RGA has a Price to Earnings Growth (PEG) ratio of 0.06, which shows the company is very undervalued compared to its earnings growth estimates.
Over the last four years, Reinsurance has averaged free cash flows of $2.76 Billion, which on average grew -12.7%
Reinsurance has moved 14.0% over the last year compared to -1.5% for the S&P 500 -- a difference of 15.0%
RGA has an average analyst rating of buy and is -9.36% away from its mean target price of $160.5 per share

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