W. R. Berkley Corporation (WRB)
Financials · Property-casualty insurance (commercial and specialty lines)
A diversified insurance holding company with 60 businesses specializing in commercial, excess-and-surplus, and specialty lines across the US and globally.
What W. R. Berkley Corporation does
W. R. Berkley Corporation is an insurance holding company operating two main segments: Insurance (88% of premiums) and Reinsurance & Monoline Excess (12% of premiums). The Insurance segment underwriters predominantly commercial insurance and specialty personal lines through 60 businesses, including excess-and-surplus lines, admitted lines, and industry-specialty coverages across the US and internationally in Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Mexico, and South America. The Reinsurance segment provides facultative and treaty reinsurance plus excess-basis risk retention operations worldwide.
Themes: ["Commercial lines insurance","Excess and surplus lines","Specialty insurance","Reinsurance","Property-casualty insurance","Niche market focus","Decentralized underwriting","International insurance expansion"]
Fundamentals
- Price$71.28 as of 2026-07-08 close
- Market cap$26.7B as of 2026-07-09
- 1-year return+1.3% as of 2026-07-08 close
- P/E14.24 as of 2026-07-09
- Net margin+12.7% as of 2026-07-09
- ROE+19.5% as of 2026-07-09
- Debt / equity0.29 as of 2026-07-09
- Revenue growth (YoY)+5.8% as of 2026-07-09
- Revenue CAGR (3y)+9.6% SEC XBRL
- Beta0.30 as of 2026-07-09
Dividend: yield +0.5%; 4-year non-decreasing per-share dividend streak (SEC XBRL).
Key risks (from latest filing)
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Competitors & peers
- Arch Capital Group
- Axis Capital Holdings
- Endurance Group Holdings
- Aspen Insurance Holdings
- Everest Re
- White Mountains Insurance Group
- Kemper Corporation
- XL Capital
Fundamentals: Finnhub, as of 2026-07-09. Filings: SEC EDGAR. Prices are delayed daily-close data.
Last updated 2026-07-08.
Informational only — NOT financial advice. All figures are delayed daily-close data from SEC EDGAR & Finnhub, shown with their as-of date.