Workers' compensation insurer Employers Holdings (NYSE:EIG) will be reporting results this Wednesday after market hours. Here’s what you need to know.
Employers Holdings missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 7.3% last quarter, reporting revenues of $202.6 million, down 9.2% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ net premiums earned estimates and a significant miss of analysts’ book value per share estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Employers Holdings’s revenue to grow 4% year on year to $225.7 million, improving from its flat revenue in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.97 per share.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Employers Holdings has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates five times over the last two years.
Looking at Employers Holdings’s peers in the property & casualty insurance segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Stewart Information Services delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 20.1%, beating analysts’ expectations by 9.2%, and First American Financial reported revenues up 14.2%, topping estimates by 4.9%. Stewart Information Services traded up 10.3% following the results while First American Financial was also up 3.5%.
Read our full analysis of Stewart Information Services’s results here and First American Financial’s results here.
Debates over possible tariffs and corporate tax adjustments have raised questions about economic stability in 2025. While some of the property & casualty insurance stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 4.3% on average over the last month. Employers Holdings is down 3% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $55.50 (compared to the current share price of $45.76).
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