QBE Insurance is an insurance - property & casualty business based in Australia. QBE Insurance shares (QBE) are listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and all prices are in Australian dollars. QBE Insurance has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $21.7 billion. If you're looking to buy shares, check out the steps below.
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| 52-week range | $13.3113 - $18.425 |
|---|---|
| 50-day moving average | $17.4422 |
| 200-day moving average | $15.8546 |
| Target price | $19.29 |
| PE ratio | 13.0809 |
| Dividend yield | $0.423 (3.49%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $1.36 |
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Historical closes compared with the last close of A$17.71
| 1 week (2024-04-18) | 1.32% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2024-03-26) | -1.06% |
| 3 months (2024-01-25) | 12.16% |
| 6 months (2023-10-26) | 14.18% |
| 1 year (2023-04-26) | 16.21% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2022-04-26) | 48.45% |
| 3 years (2021-04-26) | 89.41% |
| 5 years (2019-04-26) | 36.23% |
Valuing QBE Insurance stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of QBE Insurance's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
QBE Insurance's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 13x. In other words, QBE Insurance shares trade at around 13x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the P/E ratio for the ASX over the 12 months to December 2019 (32.14). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
QBE Insurance's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $2.1 billion (£1.1 billion).
The EBITDA is a measure of a QBE Insurance's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure stock profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $21.7 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 12.76% |
| Gross profit TTM | $1.3 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 3.22% |
| Return on equity TTM | 14.5% |
| Profit margin | 6.25% |
| Book value | 6.66 |
| Market capitalisation | $26.7 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Environmental, social and governance (known as ESG) criteria are a set of three factors used to measure the sustainability and social impact of companies like QBE Insurance.
When it comes to ESG scores, lower is better, and lower scores are generally associated with lower risk for would-be investors.
Total ESG risk: 19.4
Socially conscious investors use ESG scores to screen how an investment aligns with their worldview, and QBE Insurance's overall score of 19.4 (as at 12/31/2018) is pretty good – landing it in it in the 32nd percentile of companies rated in the same sector.
ESG scores are increasingly used to estimate the level of risk a company like QBE Insurance is exposed to within the areas of "environmental" (carbon footprint, resource use etc.), "social" (health and safety, human rights etc.), and "governance" (anti-corruption, tax transparency etc.).
Environmental score: 0.43/100
Social score: 6.28/100
Governance score: 7.19/100
Controversy score: 2/5
ESG scores also evaluate any incidences of controversy that a company has been involved in. QBE Insurance scored a 2 out of 5 for controversy – the second-highest score possible, reflecting that QBE Insurance has, for the most part, managed to keep its nose clean.
Qbe Insurance Group Ltd was last rated for ESG on: 2019-01-01.
| Total ESG score | 19.4 |
|---|---|
| Total ESG percentile | 31.64 |
| Environmental score | 0.43 |
| Social score | 6.28 |
| Governance score | 7.19 |
| Level of controversy | 2 |
Dividend payout ratio: 33.43% of net profits
Recently QBE Insurance has paid out, on average, around 33.43% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 3.49% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), QBE Insurance shareholders could enjoy a 3.49% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In QBE Insurance's case, that would currently equate to about A$0.423 per share.
While QBE Insurance's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that QBE Insurance may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 5 March 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").
QBE Insurance's shares were split on a 1.0101:1 basis on 11 October 2001. So if you had owned 1 share the day before the split, the next day you would own 1.0101 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your QBE Insurance shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 1% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for QBE Insurance shares which in turn could have impacted QBE Insurance's share price.
Over the last 12 months, QBE Insurance's shares have ranged in value from as little as $13.3113 up to $18.425. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta measures a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (AU average) beta is 1, while QBE Insurance's is 0.711. This would suggest that QBE Insurance's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
QBE Insurance Group Limited engages in underwriting general insurance and reinsurance risks in the Australia Pacific, North America, and internationally. It offers range of commercial, personal, and specialty products, such as commercial and domestic property, agriculture, public/product liability, motor and motor casualty, professional indemnity, workers' compensation, accident, health, financial and credit, and other insurance products, as well as marine, energy and aviation insurance products, and risk management solutions. The company also manages Lloyd's syndicates, as well as provides investment management services. QBE Insurance Group Limited was founded in 1886 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.
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