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W.R. Berkley (WRB)

(Delayed Data from NYSE)

$77.85 USD

77.85
2,863,959

-1.23 (-1.56%)

Updated Apr 24, 2024 04:00 PM ET

After-Market: $77.88 +0.03 (0.04%) 7:58 PM ET

Zacks Rank:

This is our short term rating system that serves as a timeliness indicator for stocks over the next 1 to 3 months. How good is it? See rankings and related performance below.

Zacks Rank Definition Annualized Return
1Strong Buy24.20%
2Buy18.04%
3Hold9.52%
4Sell5.20%
5Strong Sell2.60%
S&P50011.13%

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3-Hold of 5     3    

Style Scores:

The Style Scores are a complementary set of indicators to use alongside the Zacks Rank. It allows the user to better focus on the stocks that are the best fit for his or her personal trading style.

The scores are based on the trading styles of Value, Growth, and Momentum. There's also a VGM Score ('V' for Value, 'G' for Growth and 'M' for Momentum), which combines the weighted average of the individual style scores into one score.

Value Score A
Growth Score A
Momentum Score A
VGM Score A

Within each Score, stocks are graded into five groups: A, B, C, D and F. As you might remember from your school days, an A, is better than a B; a B is better than a C; a C is better than a D; and a D is better than an F.

As an investor, you want to buy stocks with the highest probability of success. That means you want to buy stocks with a Zacks Rank #1 or #2, Strong Buy or Buy, which also has a Score of an A or a B in your personal trading style.

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B Value C Growth A Momentum A VGM

Industry Rank:

The Zacks Industry Rank assigns a rating to each of the 265 X (Expanded) Industries based on their average Zacks Rank.

An industry with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #1's and #2's will have a better average Zacks Rank than one with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #4's and #5's.

The industry with the best average Zacks Rank would be considered the top industry (1 out of 265), which would place it in the top 1% of Zacks Ranked Industries. The industry with the worst average Zacks Rank (265 out of 265) would place in the bottom 1%.

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Top 23% (58 out of 252)

Industry: Insurance - Property and Casualty

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Founded in 1967 and based in Greenwich, CT., W.R. Berkley Corp. is a Fortune 500 company. It is one of the nation’s largest commercial lines property casualty insurance providers. The company offers a variety of insurance services from reinsurance, to workers comp third party administrators (TPAs). Effective since first quarter of 2016, the company reports results in two segments – Insurance and Reinsurance. Insurance-Domestic operating units and Insurance-International operating units that were previously reported separately have been combined with the Insurance segment. The two reporting segments are composed of individual operating units that serve a market defined by geography, products, services or industry served. Insurance segment (92.5% of 2019 net premiums written) predominantly underwrites commercial insurance business primarily throughout the United States, although many units offer coverage globally. Reinsurance segment (7.5%) is operated primarily on a facultative and treaty basis. It provides other insurance companies and self-insureds with assistance in managing their net risk through reinsurance on either a portfolio basis, through treaty reinsurance, or on an individual basis, through facultative reinsurance.

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Reasons Why W.R. Berkley (WRB) Stock is an Attractive Pick

W.R. Berkley (WRB) is poised to benefit from higher premiums, a rising interest rate environment, sufficient liquidity and effective capital deployment.

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W.R. Berkley and Tri Pointe Homes have been highlighted as Zacks Bull and Bear of the Day

W.R. Berkley and Tri Pointe Homes have been highlighted as Zacks Bull and Bear of the Day.

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Bull of the Day: W.R. Berkley Corporation (WRB)

The large-cap insurer topped quarterly estimates on July 21. Better yet, W.R. Berkley has climbed in 2022 to hit new highs not too long ago and WRB has outpaced the S&P 500 and its industry over the past decade.

3 Reasons Why W.R. Berkley (WRB) Is a Great Growth Stock

W.R. Berkley (WRB) is well positioned to outperform the market, as it exhibits above-average growth in financials.

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W.R. Berkley (WRB) Q2 Earnings and Revenues Top Estimates

W.R. Berkley (WRB) Q2 results reflect higher premiums, driven by strong rate increases in nearly all lines of business, exposure growth and an improvement in the expense ratio.

W.R. Berkley (WRB) Q2 Earnings and Revenues Surpass Estimates

W.R. Berkley (WRB) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of 33.33% and 4.80%, respectively, for the quarter ended June 2022. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

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W.R. Berkley (WRB) to Report Q2 Earnings: What's in the Cards?

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Can W.R. Berkley (WRB) Keep the Earnings Surprise Streak Alive?

W.R. Berkley (WRB) has an impressive earnings surprise history and currently possesses the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely beat in its next quarterly report.

W.R. Berkley (WRB) Earnings Expected to Grow: What to Know Ahead of Next Week's Release

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