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W. R. Berkley Corporation

WRB · Financials

Last earnings Oct 19, 2026

Key results

Operating incomequarter

12.7%

Net income and operating income grew 12.7% and 18.2% to $452.3 million and $497.1 million, respectively.

SEC original ↗W. R. Berkley Corporation — Earnings release (8-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 20, 2026

AI analysis

Q2 2026 · reported Jul 20, 2026

Based on: Earnings release + parent 8-K + 10-Q — transcript not held

Headline figures

MetricQ2 2026Prior qtrYear ago
Operating income12.7%——

EX-99 · Jul 20, 2026

Guidance · company-stated

No guidance located in the held release

Next earningsNo verified date on fileNo date is estimated or imported

Capital allocation

Dividend$112M

Total capital returned to shareholders was $334.1 million, consisting of $185.5 million of special dividends, $111.5 million of share repurchases and $37.1 million of regular dividends.

General educational research only — not investment advice.Every figure is as stated in the held documents; values marked “computed from stated figures” are arithmetic on those stated figures. Guidance shown is the company’s own stated guidance. No price targets, no recommendations, no consensus estimates.

Event summary

W. R. Berkley Corporation — Earnings release (2026-07-20)

Based on: Earnings release + parent 8-K + 10-Q — transcript not held

Guidance & outlook

No guidance located in the held release

Capital allocation

Total capital returned to shareholders was $334.1 million, consisting of $185.5 million of special dividends, $111.5 million of share repurchases and $37.1 million of regular dividends.

SEC original ↗W. R. Berkley Corporation — Earnings release (8-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 20, 2026

We returned significant capital to shareholders through $223 million of regular and special dividends and $112 million of share repurchases.

SEC original ↗W. R. Berkley Corporation — Earnings release (8-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 20, 2026

(3) During the six months ended June 30, 2026, the Company repurchased 6,156,370 shares of its common stock for $413.9 million.

SEC original ↗W. R. Berkley Corporation — Earnings release (8-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 20, 2026

During the three months ended June 30, 2026, the Company repurchased 1,684,736 shares of its common stock for $111.5 million.

SEC original ↗W. R. Berkley Corporation — Earnings release (8-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 20, 2026

Strategy & priorities

By focusing on business that offers appropriate risk-adjusted returns and favorable pricing, our Insurance segment grew gross and net premiums written by 5.4% and 3.7%, respectively, to record levels.

SEC original ↗W. R. Berkley Corporation — Earnings release (8-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 20, 2026

Our unwavering focus on risk-adjusted returns across both underwriting and investing has enabled us to deliver strong performance.

SEC original ↗W. R. Berkley Corporation — Earnings release (8-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 20, 2026

Merger arbitrage is the business of investing in the securities of publicly held companies which are the targets in announced tender offers and mergers.

SEC original ↗W. R. Berkley Corporation — 10-Q Quarterly report10-QJul 31, 2026

Arbitrage investing differs from other types of investing in its focus on transactions and events believed likely to bring about a change in value over a relatively short time period (usually four months or less).

SEC original ↗W. R. Berkley Corporation — 10-Q Quarterly report10-QJul 31, 2026

The Company utilizes a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value into three broad levels, as follows: Level 1 - Quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that the Company has the ability to access at the measurement date.

SEC original ↗W. R. Berkley Corporation — 10-Q Quarterly report10-QJul 31, 2026

Risks & headwinds

These risks and uncertainties could cause our actual results for the year 2026 and beyond to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statement we make.

SEC original ↗W. R. Berkley Corporation — Earnings release (8-K exhibit)EX-99Jul 20, 2026

Legal Proceedings Item 1A.

SEC original ↗W. R. Berkley Corporation — 10-Q Quarterly report10-QJul 31, 2026

Documents

Earnings deck slides

0 decks with slide view

W. R. Berkley Corporation — Presentation / slide deck (8-K exhibit) — Slide view unavailable — this deck was filed as a web document, whose text has no page boundaries.

W. R. Berkley Corporation — Presentation / slide deck (8-K exhibit) — Slide view unavailable — this deck was filed as a web document, whose text has no page boundaries.

Competitors

Competitors & peers

Same GICS sector — classification peers, not declared competitors

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (AJG) FinancialsSun Life Financial (SLF) FinancialsRaymond James Financial (RJF) FinancialsAflac (AFL) FinancialsING Group (ING) FinancialsNorthern Trust (NTRS) FinancialsCincinnati Financial (CINF) FinancialsCoinbase (COIN) Financials

Filings

65 documents

Earnings releases

16 documents

Presentations

2 documents

Transcripts

0 documents

No transcripts for W. R. Berkley Corporation are held in this edition of the library.

Mentioned by

2 companies

Other tracked companies whose held documents mention W. R. Berkley Corporation by name or ticker. A mention is counted once per document, from the document text the library holds.

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