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Universal Insurance Holdings Inc   (UVE)
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Price: $19.8600 $0.17 0.863%
Day's High: $20.0199 Week Perf: 1.33 %
Day's Low: $ 19.41 30 Day Perf: 18.21 %
Volume (M): 383 52 Wk High: $ 21.75
Volume (M$): $ 7,608 52 Wk Avg: $16.00
Open: $19.59 52 Wk Low: $11.16



 Market Capitalization (Millions $) 598
 Shares Outstanding (Millions) 30
 Employees 392
 Revenues (TTM) (Millions $) 1,392
 Net Income (TTM) (Millions $) 67
 Cash Flow (TTM) (Millions $) 9
 Capital Exp. (TTM) (Millions $) 5

Universal Insurance Holdings Inc

Over the past several years, we have grown our business both within Florida and elsewhere in the United States through our distribution network of approximately 7,800 licensed independent agents. In writing business, we adhere to a disciplined underwriting approach – writing risks that are priced adequately and meet our underwriting standards – designed to achieve profitable growth as opposed to merely increasing the total number of policies written. We believe we are better positioned and able to expand profitably and service our policyholders within our markets than many of our competitors due to our established internal capabilities; protection afforded us by our reinsurance program; our experienced management team that successfully navigated prior active hurricane seasons, such as 2004 and 2005; our strong surplus and capital base; our success in growing organically in Florida without relying on the assumption of blocks of policies from Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (“Citizens”), the Florida state-sponsored insurer of last resort; and our growing geographic diversification. We also believe that our reinsurance program is structured such that if we were to experience an active hurricane season like the hurricane seasons in 2004 and 2005, we would be able to pay policyholder claims, maintain sufficient surplus to grow profitably and take advantage of the resulting market dislocation that would likely follow. We believe that our longevity in the Florida market and our resulting depth of experience will enable us to continue to successfully grow our business in both hard markets (periods of capital shortages resulting in a lack of insurance availability, relatively low levels of price competition, more selective underwriting of risks and relatively high premium rates) and soft markets (periods of relatively high levels of price competition, less restrictive underwriting standards and generally low premium rates).

Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company (“UPCIC”) and American Platinum Property and Casualty Insurance Company (“APPCIC,” and together with UPCIC, the “Insurance Entities”) are our insurance operating subsidiaries. Most of our policies are written by UPCIC. Universal Risk Advisors (“URA”) is our managing general agent and manages our distribution network and negotiates our reinsurance. Universal Inspection Corporation conducts inspections as part of our underwriting process, and Universal Adjusting Corporation (“UAC”) manages our claims processing and adjustment functions. Blue Atlantic Reinsurance Corporation (“BARC”) is our reinsurance intermediary. These service companies are vertically aligned with our Insurance Entities to maintain quality throughout the policy origination and claim settlement process. In addition, our servicing subsidiaries reduce, to us, the costs typically associated with outsourced business functions, enhance our ability to expand geographically due to economies of scale in our operations and allow us to expand our business incrementally and more effectively.

Many of our competitors have experienced growth in recent years primarily as a result of assuming policies from Citizens. Because we perform all of our own marketing and underwriting as part of our organic growth strategy, we believe that we are more deliberate in seeking out profitable business from our independent agent force and selective in the policies we write as compared to Citizens, which generally must provide coverage to policyholders who have been unable to obtain insurance elsewhere. We have not assumed any policies from Citizens or its predecessor, Florida Residential Property and Casualty Joint Underwriting Association, since a single, small transaction in 1998, and have no plans to do so in the future. By contrast, in some cases, our competitors received approval to assume as many as 55,000 to 173,000 policies from Citizens in a single year.

We intend to continue our expansion outside of Florida primarily to take advantage of opportunities to write profitable business as well as to diversify our revenue and risk. We are targeting states with underserved homeowners insurance markets where we believe there is price adequacy for our products and where policyholders would benefit from our market knowledge and integrated service model. In new markets, we seek to replicate the successful growth strategy we implemented in Florida, including the careful appointment of new agents that we believe will generate profitable business for our company. We intend to leverage our existing agent network to generate new relationships and business. We will continue in our commitment to careful, profitable business growth through such independent agents, with the intent to grow quickly when the opportunity arises, including following any market dislocation. Our strategy involves taking the time to learn about each new market and its unique risks in order to carefully develop our own policy forms, rates and informed underwriting standards.

We will continue to obtain what we believe to be appropriate reinsurance limits, coverage and terms so that our policyholders and shareholders are adequately protected in the event of an active hurricane season. Significant additional, new capital entering portions of the reinsurance marketplace has provided us with the opportunity to obtain favorable pricing and contract terms. Our dedicated reinsurance team at BARC includes seasoned industry professionals with an average of 24 years of experience, whom we hired from Willis Re almost 10 years ago. BARC differentiates us from our competitors by enabling us to act as our own reinsurance intermediary, developing a bespoke reinsurance program tailored to our needs in both soft and hard reinsurance markets. This team has developed and enhanced existing strong long term relationships with world leading reinsurance companies it brought to the company 10 years ago providing better efficiency in the manner in which we buy reinsurance annually.


We eliminated our quota share reinsurance arrangements effective June 1, 2015; purchased additional excess of loss catastrophe cover; and converted from a two-tower reinsurance program to a single tower reinsurance program covering our nationwide business based on our improving financial condition, our evaluation of market conditions and our changing coverage needs. We believe that restructuring our reinsurance program in this manner and continuously re-evaluating that structure has allowed us to take advantage of attractive reinsurance pricing and terms and to retain profitable business by eliminating our quota share program, while still maintaining reinsurance coverage that we believe is sufficient to protect our policyholders and shareholders.

In February 2013, we appointed a new leadership team from within our company, comprised of individuals who understood our vision for the future. We have a deep and experienced leadership team with extensive experience in the Florida personal residential insurance market. Our Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Sean P. Downes, has more than 25 years of experience in the insurance industry. Prior to Mr. Downes’ arrival, all of our claims processing was outsourced to third parties. When Mr. Downes joined our company in 1999, he oversaw our claims operations and later oversaw the development of our vertically integrated structure. Mr. Downes has worked in the Florida insurance industry during all of its most recent active hurricane seasons. In particular, Mr. Downes led the claims team of a multi-line insurance claims adjusting corporation following Hurricane Andrew and served as Chief Operating Officer of UPCIC during the 2004 and 2005 active hurricane seasons. Jon W. Springer, our Chief Operating Officer, has 23 years of experience in the insurance industry, including 9 years leading a team of reinsurance specialists for Willis Re before joining us to implement and oversee our reinsurance program. Prior to becoming our Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Springer was an Executive Vice President of URA and

BARC.
We believe this leadership team has led us in a new strategic direction that has realized many benefits for our shareholders and policyholders, evidenced in part by the 71.5% increase in our stockholders’ equity and the 82.9% increase in policyholders’ surplus that we have realized since their tenure began. Further, they are supported by a group of highly qualified individuals with industry expertise and extensive operational history, which enables us to capitalize on our experience of having emerged from the 2004 and 2005 active hurricane seasons in sound financial condition, whereas many of our competitors are new to the market and have not experienced the challenges of an active Florida hurricane season.

Focus on Underwriting Discipline
We seek to consistently generate an underwriting profit on the business we write in hard and soft markets through carefully developed underwriting guidelines informed by our experience in evaluating risks and in handling and processing claims, which enable us to set prices relative to the risk we are assuming. By focusing on appropriately identifying and assessing key risks and exposures in the market, we believe we are able to accurately price eligible risks and generate consistent profits. We assumed only one group of policies from Citizens’ predecessor in 1998 when we first began our operations. Since then, we have grown our business by leveraging our network of approximately 4,500 independent agents in Florida, and by expanding to other geographic areas that present market opportunities. We periodically review the renewal rates and quality of business generated by our independent agents to ensure underwriting profitability and work with agents where we believe improvement is warranted. As a result of this organic expansion and our vertically integrated structure, all of our operating units possess extensive knowledge of the personal residential homeowners insurance market.



   Company Address: 1110 W. Commercial Blvd. Fort Lauderdale 33309 FL
   Company Phone Number: 958-1200   Stock Exchange / Ticker: NYSE UVE
   


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Universal Insurance Holdings Inc

Universal Insurance Holdings Inc Faces Earnings Decline Despite Surge in Revenue

Universal Insurance Holdings Inc has reported a tumultuous period for its earnings per share (EPS), with a significant decline despite a substantial increase in revenue. In the October to December 2023 period, income fell by 16.6% to $0.69 per share, while revenue saw a remarkable growth of 13.651% to $375.46 million compared to the same quarter the previous year.
Despite the decline in EPS, it is encouraging to see the impressive growth in revenue. This suggests that Universal Insurance Holdings Inc has been successful in generating higher sales. Furthermore, when compared to the previous quarter, the company experienced a positive turnaround in earnings per share, improving from $-0.20 per share. Additionally, revenue increased by 4.279% from $360.05 million. These figures indicate that Universal Insurance Holdings Inc has managed to stabilize its financial performance and regain profitability.
However, one area of concern in the financial interval closing December 31 2023 is the decline in net profits. The company reported a decrease of 20.36% to $19.999 million compared to the previous year's corresponding period. This decline may be attributed to various factors, such as increased operating expenses or lower investment income. Universal Insurance Holdings Inc needs to address this issue in order to sustain profitability and drive long-term growth.

Universal Insurance Holdings Inc

Universal Insurance Holdings Inc Surges Ahead with Strong Revenue Growth Despite Q3 Losses

Universal Insurance Holdings Inc, a leading insurance company, recently released its financial results for the third quarter of 2023. The company reported a loss of $0.20 per share, a significant improvement from the loss of $2.36 per share in the same period last year. Additionally, the earnings per share (EPS) fell to $0.93, down from $0.93 in the previous financial reporting period.
Despite the decline in EPS, Universal Insurance Holdings Inc experienced substantial revenue growth. The company's revenue increased by 15.101% to $360.05 million compared to $312.81 million in the third quarter of the previous year. Sequentially, the revenue also increased by 6.031% from $339.57 million.

Universal Insurance Holdings Inc

Universal Insurance Holdings Inc Revels in Impressive Double-Digit Revenue Boom for Second Quarter 2023, Exceeding Industry Peers

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Universal Insurance Holdings Inc., a leading Property & Casualty Insurance company, recently announced its financial results for the period of April to June 30, 2023. The company showcased impressive revenue growth, higher income per share, and improved profit margins. Despite a slight decline in stock performance in the past week, the company has demonstrated strong year-to-date performance, outperforming industry averages.
Financial Results Overview
During the specified period, Universal Insurance Holdings Inc. reported revenues of $339.57 million, representing a significant YoY increase of 16.289%. On a quarterly basis, revenues advanced by 7.286%. This growth highlights the company's ability to generate higher sales and attract a larger customer base.

Universal Insurance Holdings Inc

on the higher pace

Universal Insurance Holdings Inc (UVE) has been making waves with its impressive financial results for the first quarter of 2023 earnings season. The company has reported a stunning jump of 41.07% in profit per share to $0.79, along with a revenue increment of 10.097% to $316.51 million, when compared to the prior year period.
The strong performance also marks an improvement from the prior financial reporting period, where EPS had decreased by -4.29% from $0.83 per share and revenue had decreased by -4.193% from $330.36 million. This latest result demonstrates that Universal Insurance Holdings Inc has not only regained its lost ground, but has gone above and beyond in terms of profitability and revenue growth.






 

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