Bowhead Specialty Holdings Inc's Competitiveness
A competitive positioning analysis and financial ratio benchmarking of Bowhead Specialty Holdings Inc (BOW) against its publicly traded competitors: sales growth, net income, profitability, valuation and market share, plus each peer's market capitalization, revenue, income and employees. Free below: the top 5 peers. Subscriber access adds the full competitor list and CSV downloads.
Key Findings: Bowhead Specialty Holdings Inc vs Its Competitors
- TTM: Trailing 12-month revenue of 615M vs -M combined for tracked competitors (100.0% combined share).
- Trending: Latest-quarter revenue run-rate is accelerating (+6.5% annualized vs trailing 12 months).
- Scale: Bowhead Specialty Holdings Inc ranks #45 of 65 companies by market capitalization in the Property & Casualty Insurance industry, holding 0.1% of industry market cap.
- Peer revenue share: Bowhead Specialty Holdings Inc accounted for 100.0% of combined revenue among its tracked peer group, up from 100.0% a year earlier.
Every figure above is sourced and cited in detail further down this page (Market Structure, Profitability & Cost Structure, Productivity vs Peers).
BOW Sales vs. its Competitors, Q2 2026
Bowhead Specialty Holdings Inc generated 100.00 % of the combined sales of its peer group, up from 100.00 % a year earlier.
For context: the Property & Casualty Insurance industry grew revenue 5.6% year over year, combined, vs 23.0% for Bowhead Specialty Holdings Inc. Bowhead Specialty Holdings Inc's share of combined industry revenue moved from 0.05% to 0.06%, a gain of 0.01 percentage points.
Bowhead Specialty Holdings Inc's Competitor Quality Breadth
Share of each group, trailing 12 months: profitable (net margin > 0), expanding (revenue growth > 0), growing faster than the industry's own median, and financially distressed (Piotroski F-Score of 2 or below).
| Entity | Profitable | Expanding | Above Industry Growth | Distressed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowhead Specialty Holdings Inc | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| High-Confidence Competitors (10) | ||||
| Similar-Size Competitors (10) | ||||
| Similar Growth & Profitability (8) | 87.50 % (7 of 8) | 100.00 % (8 of 8) | 87.50 % (7 of 8) | 0.00 % (0 of 7) |
Source: CSIMarket API, trailing 12 months. Altman Z-Score is not shown here: it is not populated in the underlying data for any company. Percentages are of companies in each group that report the relevant metric, not of the full group size.
BOW Stock Performance relative to its Competitors
BOW Stock Performance relative to High-Confidence Competitors
BOW Stock Performance relative to Similar-Size Competitors
BOW Stock Performance relative to Similar Growth & Profitability Competitors
Bowhead Specialty Holdings Inc's Comment on Competition and Industry Peers
Bowhead Specialty Holdings Inc's Competitors Named by the Company
Competitive relationships identified from SEC filings and corroborating sources, each with a basis and confidence.| Competitor | Basis | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| W.R. Berkley Corporation | Named by the company | 85% |
| AXA S.A. | Named by the company | 85% |
| Cincinnati Financial Corporation | Named by the company | 85% |
| The Doctors Company | Named by the company | 85% |
| American International Group, Inc. | Named by the company | 85% |
| C.V. Starr & Co., Inc. | Named by the company | 85% |
| Liberty Mutual Insurance Company | Named by the company | 85% |
| Chubb Ltd. | Named by the company | 85% |
| AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. | Named by the company | 85% |
| CNA Financial Corporation | Named by the company | 85% |
| The Travelers Companies, Inc. | Named by the company | 85% |
| Arch Capital Group Ltd. | Named by the company | 85% |
| Chubb Ltd. | Named by the company | 85% |
| Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company | Named by the company | 85% |
| Berkshire Hathaway Corporation | Named by the company | 85% |
| Kinsale Capital Group, Inc. | Named by the company | 85% |
Filing basis, confidence, active dates and source counts for Bowhead Specialty Holdings Inc's named competitors require a Commercial License.
Methodology: relationships are extracted from SEC filings (named-competitor disclosures) and corroborating sources. Named by the company = explicitly disclosed as a competitor; Inferred = derived from corroborating signals. Confidence reflects evidence strength.