Property and casualty insurer Selective Insurance Group (NASDAQ: SIGI) will be reporting earnings this Wednesday after market hours. Here’s what you need to know.
Selective Insurance Group met analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.36 billion, up 8.6% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates but a significant miss of analysts’ book value per share estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Selective Insurance Group’s revenue to grow 6.8% year on year, slowing from the 10.3% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.
The majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Selective Insurance Group has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Selective Insurance Group’s peers in the insurance segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Progressive delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 8.7%, meeting analysts’ expectations, and Travelers reported flat revenue, falling short of estimates by 3.6%. Progressive traded up 3.5% following the results while Travelers’s stock price was unchanged.
Read our full analysis of Progressive’s results here and Travelers’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the insurance segment, with share prices up 6.9% on average over the last month. Selective Insurance Group is up 9% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $87.29 (compared to the current share price of $81.82).
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