WRB W.R. Berkley Corporation

Financial Services · Insurance - Property & Casualty

7 · Fair Momentum 3.0 · Weak Watch

70.09

-1.03%

About the company

W. R. Berkley Corporation, an insurance holding company, operates as a commercial line writer worldwide. The company operates through Insurance and Reinsurance & Monoline Excess segments. The Insurance segment underwrites commercial insurance business, including excess and surplus lines, admitted lines, and specialty personal lines. This segment also provides accident and health insurance and reinsurance products; insurance for commercial risks; casualty and specialty environmental products; insurance coverages for fine arts and jewelry exposures; excess liability and inland marine coverage for small to medium-sized insureds; and commercial general liability, umbrella, professional liability, directors and officers, commercial property, and surety products, as well as products for technology, and life sciences and travel industries. In addition, it offers cyber risk solutions; crime and fidelity insurance products; medical professional coverages; workers' compensation insurance products; management liability and general insurance products; personal lines insurance solutions, including home, condo/co-op, auto, fine arts and collectibles, liability, collector vehicle, and recreational marine; law enforcement, public officials and educator's legal, and employment practices liability, as well as incidental medical, property, and crime insurance products; at-risk and alternative risk insurance program management services; professional liability; energy and marine risks; and insurance products to the Lloyd's marketplace. The Reinsurance & Monoline Excess segment provides treaty and facultative reinsurance solutions; property and casualty reinsurance products; facultative reinsurance products include automatic, semi-automatic, and individual risk assumed reinsurance; and turnkey products, such as cyber, employment practices liability insurance, liquor liability insurance and violent events. The company was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.

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52-week range

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low 62.9 high 79.0

Dividend deep dive

W.R. Berkley Corporation (WRB), operating in the Insurance - Property & Casualty sector, has a current dividend yield of 0.56%. This yield is near the lower end of its 5-year historical range, which spanned from a low of 0.6% to a high of 3.11%, with an average of 2.06%. The company holds a rating score of 6.0. While the company provides regular payments, its dividend history shows significant year-to-year variability, often including special distributions.

Dividend history

W.R. Berkley Corporation does not have a streak of consecutive annual dividend increases, with its dividend streak recorded as 0 years. Despite this, the company has shown substantial average annual growth rates over certain periods, with a 3-year dividend CAGR of approximately 72.13% and a 5-year dividend CAGR of approximately 44.84%. Annual payments have varied, including $0.1304 in 2014, $0.1541 in 2016, $0.64 in 2019, $0.2133 in 2020, $1.3333 in 2023, and $1.4867 in 2024. The company makes quarterly payments in February, March, June, September, and December.

Dividend safety

The company's dividend appears well-covered by earnings, with a very low payout ratio of 8.47% based on reported EPS. W.R. Berkley's leverage appears manageable, with a debt-to-equity ratio of 31.76.

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AI-generated from Quantic's dividend data · Updated 17 Jul 2026 · Information, not financial advice.