Charting the Top 5 Brokers and Multi-line, Life/Health Insurers

The latest financial analysis reveals the five multi-line insurers and the five life and health insurers with the highest enterprise value (EV) to forward EBITDA ratios, reports Zacks Investment Research.

It also shows the top five companies in the insurance brokers industry as measured by beta. SmarTrend analyzes more than 5,000 securities simultaneously throughout the trading day and provides its subscribers with trend change alerts in real time.

 

Top 5 multi-line insurers (highest EV to forward EBITDA ratios):

1. Eastern Insurance Holdings—15.04x

2. HCC Insurance Holdings—6.88x

3. Loews—6.48x

4. Horace Mann Educators—6.46x

5. Hartford Financial Services—5.80x.

 

Top 5 life and health (highest EV to forward EBITDA ratios):

1. Prudential Financial—7.26x

2. Torchmark—6.67x

3. Delphi Financial Group—6.62x

4. MetLife—6.36x

5. Unum Group—6.35x

 

Top 5 insurance brokers (measured by beta; lower-beta stocks mean minimal volatility and are therefore generally considered to be a less risk and offer more stable returns.):

1. Aon—0.70

2. Brown & Brown—0.72

3. Willis Group—0.75

4. Arthur J Gallagher—0.81

5. eHealth—0.88

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