W.R. Berkley (WRB) Stock Update – Key Information for Investors

By Emilio Sanchez • Thursday, October 16 15:30 • Permanent Link

One of the losers of today's trading session was W.R. Berkley. Shares of the Property & casualty insurance company plunged -3.7%, and some investors may be wondering if its price of $73.59 would make a good entry point. Here's what you should know if you are considering this investment:

W.R. Berkley has moved 25.1% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 14.2%
WRB has an average analyst rating of hold and is -2.05% away from its mean target price of $75.13 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $4.4
W.R. Berkley has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 16.7 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $4.35 and its forward P/E ratio is 16.9
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 3.0 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 4.74
W.R. Berkley is part of the Finance sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 15.92 and an average P/B of 1.78
WRB has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of 8.7% and gross profit margins of 0.4%
The company has a free cash flow of $3.64 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
W. R. Berkley Corporation, an insurance holding company, operates as a commercial line writer worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Insurance, and Reinsurance & Monoline Excess. 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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