BERKLEY W R CORP
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See all $WRB insider activity →UBS raised its price target for W. R. Berkley to $77, keeping a Neutral rating. The stock trades above the average target of $70.33, with a high target of $83, implying 17.6% upside.
W. R. Berkley Corporation (NYSE:WRB) formed Berkley Meridian, a specialty insurance unit merging Verus Specialty Insurance and Vela Insurance Services. Marlo M. Morrison will lead the new entity, offering underwriting in various sectors. Integration is expected to continue into early 2027. The company aims to broaden its solutions suite. WRB operates in property and casualty insurance, with significant U.S. presence.
W.R. Berkley's insurance segment reported $11.18B in 2025 net premiums, up from $11.18B in 2024, with a 91.7% combined ratio. H1 2026 saw a 3.4% YoY increase in net premiums. The company's disciplined underwriting and risk selection drive profitability. WRB's stock is down 2.5% YoY, trading at a P/B of 2.63, above industry average. Analysts expect 2026 EPS and revenue growth.
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Analyst price target increase may support modest upside.
Creates a new specialty insurance platform in excess and surplus wholesale brokerage, potentially reshaping underwriting focus and execution risk through early 2027.
The article is a fundamentals recap emphasizing underwriting profitability and modest premium growth, with valuation and EPS estimate drift as the actionable angles.
Leadership reshuffle is presented as a catalyst for reassessing execution and risk, but the actionable content is mainly valuation-model disagreement.
Leadership reshuffle in reinsurance could modestly affect underwriting discipline and capital allocation, but the article frames it as incremental.
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UBS raised its price target for W. R. Berkley to $77, keeping a Neutral rating. The stock trades above the average target of $70.33, with a high target of $83, implying 17.6% upside.
1 min readW. R. Berkley Corporation (NYSE:WRB) formed Berkley Meridian, a specialty insurance unit merging Verus Specialty Insurance and Vela Insurance Services. Marlo M. Morrison will lead the new entity, offering underwriting in various sectors. Integration is expected to continue into early 2027. The company aims to broaden its solutions suite. WRB operates in property and casualty insurance, with significant U.S. presence.
4 min readW.R. Berkley's insurance segment reported $11.18B in 2025 net premiums, up from $11.18B in 2024, with a 91.7% combined ratio. H1 2026 saw a 3.4% YoY increase in net premiums. The company's disciplined underwriting and risk selection drive profitability. WRB's stock is down 2.5% YoY, trading at a P/B of 2.63, above industry average. Analysts expect 2026 EPS and revenue growth.
3 min readSimply Wall St reports leadership changes at W. R. Berkley’s reinsurance unit, including Daniel R. Westcott as EVP and new roles for Robert R. Coyne Jr. and Robert C. Hewitt. WRB shares last closed at $71.60. One valuation narrative sets fair value at $68.33 (about 5% overvalued), while a DCF model estimates $125.38.
5 min readW. R. Berkley (WRB) reshaped reinsurance leadership by appointing Daniel R. Westcott as executive vice president, promoting Robert R. Coyne Jr. to president of Berkley Re America, and naming Robert C. Hewitt chairman of Berkley Re, effective immediately. The article links the changes to risk and capital allocation, noting a higher regular dividend of $0.10 per share plus a $0.50 special dividend and forecast revenue/earnings to 2028-2029.
5 min readW. R. Berkley Corporation, via its subsidiary Berkley Insurance Company, reported beneficial ownership of 881,402 Class A ordinary shares of Quantumsphere Acquisition Corp, representing 7.7% of the outstanding Class A shares, in an ownership filing. The shares carry shared voting and shared dispositive power, with sole voting and dispositive power reported as zero.
2 min readW.R. Berkley said Berkley Risk appointed Moede as president, citing over 20 years of commercial insurance experience in specialty lines. He succeeds John M. Goodwin, who joined in 2012 and became president in 2014. Berkley Risk manages workers’ compensation, liability and property claims. Parent W.R. Berkley reported record Q2 2026 gross premiums of $4.1B and operating ROE of 20.5%.
3 min readW.R. Berkley reported Q2 operating income per diluted share of $1.27 versus $1.05 a year earlier, with revenue rising to $3.72B from $3.67B, below the $3.77B average estimate. Gross premiums written hit a record $4.1B and net investment income was $418.7M. Analysts including BofA, Truist, Mizuho and Wells Fargo raised WRB price targets.
6 min readAnalysts issued updates on Principal Financial (PFG), IREN (IREN) and W. R. Berkley (WRB). Morgan Stanley kept PFG at Hold with a $112 target; Wells Fargo also Hold at $114. Canaccord Genuity kept IREN Buy at $79; Freedom Capital Markets upgraded to Buy at $58. Truist kept WRB Buy at $83.
2 min readWR Berkley Corp (WRB) discussed Q2 2026 earnings call topics including how rate changes may affect underlying loss ratios through reassessments of booked loss ratios, incremental competition in E&S and challenges in MGU models, ongoing focus on social inflation without current pricing changes, and AI and technology investments that improved underwriting workbench efficiency by over 20% and aim for straight-through claims processing.
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