Beazley plc (BZLYF)
SuperavaliadaFundamental
53
Preço
$1308.37
Capitalização de Mercado
$7.79B
Parte 1 · Quanto vale a empresa
Visão Geral
Beazley is a specialist insurer operating mainly through Lloyd's of London: it underwrites risks that standard insurers avoid or price poorly, such as cyberattacks, kidnap and ransom, and large or unusual property and marine exposures. Brokers bring it individual risks, Beazley's underwriters price and accept them, and the company collects premiums up front in exchange for a promise to pay claims that may not surface for years.
Como gera receita
Revenue is insurance premium, earned gradually over the life of each policy rather than booked all at once when it is written, plus investment income on the reserves held to pay future claims. Profit depends on charging more in premiums than the claims and expenses eventually paid out — a gap the industry calls the combined ratio — so the same dollar of premium can be very profitable or a loss depending entirely on how claims develop years later.
Receita por segmento
A broad book of professional liability, executive risk and other specialty commercial lines outside the other four categories.
Insurance on physical property and related business interruption, including large and catastrophe-exposed commercial risks.
Cover against data breaches, ransomware and other digital attacks — one of the newer and fastest-changing lines Beazley underwrites.
Marine, aviation and political risk lines, grouped together as a single underwriting division.
Smaller commercial risks underwritten and distributed through digital, algorithm-driven channels rather than traditional broker placement.
Vantagem competitiva
Patentes e licenças · EstreitaUnderwriting specialty risks like cyber or kidnap and ransom well requires claims data and expertise built up over many years, which is hard for a new entrant to replicate quickly. The advantage is narrow rather than wide because capital, not just expertise, backs an insurer's ability to write business, and well-funded rivals can buy their way into the same specialty lines.
O que impulsiona a procura
CíclicoInsurance pricing moves in multi-year cycles driven by how much capital the industry has available to write risk: after large losses, prices rise and Beazley can charge more for the same risk; after a run of profitable years, new capital enters, competition increases and rates soften, as the company itself reported happening across its book in 2025.
Principais riscos
- Catastrophe and cyber accumulation risk — The company identifies catastrophe risk — large events caused by nature such as hurricanes and earthquakes, or by people such as a coordinated cyberattack, pandemic or war — as a principal risk that can generate claims far larger than any single premium collected.
- Softening underwriting cycle — Rates on renewal business decreased by 3.6% on average across the portfolio in 2025, a softening market that, if it continues, would compress the margin Beazley earns on the same risks over time.
- Reserving and reserve adequacy — Beazley names reserving risk among its principal insurance risks: claims on specialty lines like cyber or professional liability can take years to emerge, so reserves set aside today may prove too low once the true cost of past policies becomes known.
Os argumentos a favor
Buyers argue that specialty underwriting expertise built over decades lets Beazley price risks that generalist insurers cannot, that a combined ratio in the low 80s shows real underwriting discipline rather than luck, and that cyber and other specialty lines still have room to grow as more of the economy needs that cover.
Os argumentos contra
Sellers fear that softening rates on renewal business will keep compressing margins as more capital chases the same specialty risks, that a single large catastrophe or cyber event could produce losses far above what current reserves assume, and that reserves set years ago for slow-to-emerge claims may need to be strengthened later.
Written by the editors, published on 18 de agosto de 2026
Direct competitors
Who this company fights with for the same customers
Generated on 18 de setembro de 2026 with claude-haiku-4-5 — shared with all users
Markel's insurance arm competes head-on in US excess and surplus specialty liability and at Lloyd's, with overlapping professional liability, cyber and marine offerings.
Arch underwrites professional lines, cyber, property and marine through its London and Lloyd's operations and its US insurance segment, chasing the same broker-placed specialty business.
The closest London-listed peer: Hiscox underwrites the same Lloyd's specialty book — cyber, professional indemnity, D&O, property and marine — and competes for the same brokers and commercial clients in the UK and the US.
Chubb is the other leader of the global standalone cyber market alongside Beazley and bids for the same large corporate cyber, D&O and specialty liability programmes worldwide.
AXIS writes the same specialty lines — cyber, professional lines, marine and property — through both its Lloyd's syndicate and its US excess and surplus platform, targeting Beazley's core mid-market and corporate buyers.
Lancashire is the other London-listed Lloyd's specialty underwriter competing in property, energy, marine, aviation and political risk — the classes that make up Beazley's Property and MAP divisions.
Balanço & Liquidez
Receita
$5.56B
Últimos 12 meses até o último trimestre divulgado — estimativa a partir de métricas por ação
Resultado Líquido
$656M
Últimos 12 meses até o último trimestre divulgado — estimativa a partir de métricas por ação
Fluxo de Caixa Livre
$-7M
Capital Próprio Total
$3.67B
Passivo Total
$624M
Rácio de Liquidez
36.00
Cobertura de Juros
-
Dívida/EBITDA
0.50
Resultados Por Ação
Receita & Resultado Líquido
Fluxo de Caixa Livre
Decomposição dos Resultados
Demonstração histórica
Margens ao longo do tempo
A dívida ao longo do tempo
Quanto pesa a dívida
Grelha do crescimento
Crescimento — Receitas
Estimativa de Valor Justo
Valor Justo
$338.68
Preço Atual
$1308.37
Margem de Segurança
-286.3%
Intervalo de Valor Justo
$220.14 - $457.22
Dispersão entre os métodos de avaliação utilizados, não um intervalo de confiança calibrado estatisticamente.
Métodos de Estimativa
Métricas de Avaliação
Rácio P/E
1190.74
ROE
14.2%
Rácio P/B
160.76
P/FCF
-
Margem Bruta
29.4%
ROIC
14.9%
Radar de Rentabilidade
Criação de Valor (Vantagem Competitiva)
ROIC
14.9%
WACC
7.4%
ROIC − WACC
+7.5 pp
O ROIC supera o custo do capital — a empresa está a criar valor para os acionistas.
Critérios de Análise Fundamental
Aprovado (10)
- Price CAGR 12.92%
- ROIC 14.9%
- Debt/Equity ratio
- Operating Margin 14.2%
- Current Ratio
- Debt/EBITDA
- ROE 13.9%
- Revenue Growth 5Y 15.5%
- Analyst Consensus 53% Buy
- Earnings Quality (OCF/NI) 0.88
Reprovado (8)
- Gross Margin 29.4%
- P/B Ratio 160.76
- Positive Free Cash Flow
- Price below Graham Number
- DCF valuation (Unknown)
- Earnings Surprise avg -13.0%
- Net Margin Trend 15.0% vs 18.3%
- Piotroski F-Score 1/9
Indisponível (9)
- EPS data insufficient
- P/FCF NaN
- Dividend Payout NaN%
- CapEx intensity
- Interest Coverage
- Return on Tangible Assets
- Low reliance on intangibles
- PEG Ratio (need PE > 0 and growth > 0)
- Share Dilution (missing shares data)
Piotroski F-Score
Preocupações financeiras graves
Qualidade dos Resultados
Moderada: alguma diferença entre lucros e caixa
Diluição de Ações
A recomprar ações. Favorável ao acionista
Participações institucionais
Não há declarações institucionais para esta empresa.
Governação
Equipa Executiva
| Nome | Cargo | Idade |
|---|---|---|
| Mr. Adrian Peter Cox | CEO & Executive Director | 54 |
| Ms. Barbara Plucnar Jensen | Group CFO & Executive Director | 54 |
| Mr. Troy Dehmann | Chief Operating Officer | - |
| Mr. Stuart Simpson | Chief Investment Officer | - |
| Mark Moerdyk | Chief Technology Officer | - |
| Ms. Sarah Booth | Head of Investor Relations & Chair of the Diversity Steering Group | - |
| Ms. Georgina Peters-Venzano | Chief Marketing Officer | - |
| Ms. Elizabeth Mary Jane Ashford | Chief People Officer & Head of ESG | 58 |
| Mr. Jeremiah Edward Sullivan Jr. | Head & Chair of US Management Committee | - |
| Mr. Patrick Hartigan | Group Head of Treaty | - |
Risco de Auditoria
1
Risco do Conselho
2
Risco de Remuneração
10
Risco dos Direitos dos Acionistas
1
Parte 2 · O preço e o momento de entrar
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