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IGIC, International General Insurance Holdings Ltd.

Our board of directors will evaluate whether or not to pay dividends and, if so, whether to pay dividends on a quarterly, semi-annual or annual basis, depending on our results, market conditions, contractual obligations, legal restrictions and other factors deemed relevant by the board of directors.

Holders of our common shares should obtain current market quotations for their securities.

Latest annual: FY2025 20-F · US listing is the ordinary share
IGIC · International General Insurance Holdings Ltd.
I

The business

What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.

Revenue · FY2025
$517M
−4.1% YoY · 120% 5-yr CAGR
Vital signs · TTM, with 5-yr average
Revenue $517M 5-yr avg $461M
Return on equity 1% 5-yr avg 16%

The business in brief

read the 10-K →

What this business is and what moves its needle, from its own SEC filings.

What moves the needle
Underwriting discipline and the float. What decides it: whether the combined ratio stays below 100% so the policies make money on their own, how large the float is against equity, and what that float earns once it is invested. On its own account, the filing leans hardest on pricing power & competition, set against the numbers in what the filing emphasizes, below.
Is it a good business?
The underwriting result is not cleanly tagged in the filings. Book value per share, the measure Berkshire is judged on, has compounded about 29% a year across the record. The float runs about 0.0× equity, the leverage that magnifies both the underwriting and the investing. Whether the discipline holds through a soft market, and how the float is invested, are what the 10-K decides.

Every line is arithmetic on the company's filings, shown in full in the sections below.

II

The record

Ten years of arithmetic, read across the cycle.

The record, 2017–2025

realized figures from each filing · older years to the left
2017’172018’182019’192020’202021’212022’222023’232024’242025’25TTMTTMDec 2025
Income statement
$13M$10M$13M$10M$351M$397M$499M$539M$517M$517MRevenueRevenue
$337M$376M$447M$483M$454M$454MPremiums earnedPremiums
$13M$10M$13M$10M$14M$21M$40M$52M$55M$55MInvestment incomeInv. inc.
$7M$26M$24M$2M$3M$85M$118M$135M$127M$3MNet incomeNet inc.
-0%0%7%55%39%3%6%-2%-0%46%Effective tax rateTax rate
Cash flow & returns
$13M$104M$21M($91M)$130M($85M)$197M$209M$108M($85M)Operating cash flowOp. cash
$13M$104M$21M($91M)$128M($87M)$194M$206M$107M($87M)Owner earningsOwner earn.
2%8%8%0%1%20%22%21%18%1%Return on equityROE
−1%7%4%−1%−3%17%22%17%11%−2%Retained to equityRetained/eq
Balance sheet
$9M$578M$636M$712M$794M$798M$9MFloat (reserves)Float
$903M$1.0B$1.3B$1.5B$1.6B$1.8B$2.0B$2.1B$1.6BTotal assetsAssets
$104M$185M$192M$133M$242M$138M$219M$225M$186M$138MCash & investmentsCash+inv
$301M$301M$312M$381M$402M$430M$540M$655M$710M$430MShareholders’ equityEquity
Per share
143M35.1M34.3M43.0M45.5M45.5M43.5M44.7M43.7M42.8MShares out (diluted)Shares
$0.05$0.73$0.69$0.04$0.06$1.88$2.72$3.02$2.91$0.06EPS (diluted)EPS
$0.09$2.95$0.61$-2.11$2.82$-1.90$4.46$4.61$2.45$-2.03Owner earnings / shareOE/sh
$0.08$0.12$0.32$0.10$0.35$0.24$0.04$0.59$1.06$0.25Dividends / shareDiv/sh
$2.10$8.58$9.10$8.85$8.84$9.44$12.43$14.64$16.26$10.03Book value / shareBVPS

The diluted share count moved ×1/4.09 into 2018 — shares retired, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.

Per-share growththe realized rate an owner's share compounded
8-yr5-yr
Revenue / share+84.6%/yr+119.6%/yr
Owner earnings / share+51.8%/yr
EPS+66.6%/yr+136.6%/yr
Dividends / share+38.1%/yr+59.9%/yr
Capital spending / share+27.3%/yr+22.0%/yr
Book value / share+29.1%/yr+12.9%/yr

The record, charted

FY2017–2025

Each measure over its full record; the current point and the worst year marked.

Share count
44Mpeak FY2017
Revenue
$517Mlow FY2020
III

Quality & stewardship

Returns, the balance sheet, capital allocation, and pay.

Owner’s Scorecard

FY2025 20-F · source on SEC EDGAR →

Is it a good business?

  • Not enough data
    Industry peers: median 105%
    What this means

    Premiums or claims weren't found in the filing data.

  • Below the cost of equity
    Net income $3M ÷ equity $430M
    Industry peers: median 5%
    What this means

    What it earns on shareholders' capital, the underwriting result plus what the float earns invested. Durably above the ~10% cost of equity is what compounds book value.

The float

  • 0.0× equity
    Loss and claim reserves $9M, 0.0× equity
    What this means

    Money held against future claims and invested in the meantime. Buffett's insight was that good underwriting makes this float cost less than nothing, a pool of other people's money the owners earn on. Measured here from loss and claim reserves only; it excludes unearned premiums and funds held, so the true float is somewhat larger than shown. The larger it is against equity, the more that leverage works, for better or worse.

  • earned on investments
    Net investment income $55M
    What this means

    What the float and capital earned this year. This is the second engine: an insurer that breaks even on underwriting still wins if the float is large and invested well.

Does AI threaten the moat?

Low contestability

The moat is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded, the kind AI cuts costs within but does not contest.

In its own filing A competitive risk, new this year

Its FY2025 10-K names artificial intelligence as a competitive threat, in language that was not in the prior year's filing.

“Our competitors may also incorporate AI including Generative AI solutions into their processes, and may do so more quickly or more effectively than we do, which could cause harm to our competitive position if we are unable to deploy AI solutions in a compliant and competitive manner.…”

AI is unlikely to contest a moat that is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded; here it reads more as a cost tool than a threat.

Read from the filing's own risk factors, paired with the industry's structure under its SIC code; the durability is read above, the price below.

All figures as filed; the source filing is linked above.

Current Position

as of fiscal year-end, Dec 31, 2019

Can the business pay what it owes this year, off the freshest balance sheet: the quality of the assets, the debt actually coming due, and what a low ratio means here.

Current assets$953K
  • Cash & short-term investments$138M
  • Receivables$313K
Current liabilities$7M
  • Accounts payable$10M
Current ratio0.14×all current assets ÷ what's due · Graham looked for 2×
Quick ratio0.14×stricter: inventory excluded
Cash ratio19.81×strictest: cash alone against what's due
Working capital($6M)the cushion left after near-term bills
Cash runway1.6 yrsthe business is consuming cash; this is how long the cash on hand lasts at that rate
Deeper floors
Tangible book value$426Mequity stripped of goodwill & intangibles
Net current asset value($1.1B)Graham's net-net: current assets less all liabilities
Debt incl. operating leases$3M$3M of it operating leases

From the company's latest filing.

Peers, Insurance — Property & Casualty

The same industry, side by side on the underwriting lens. Each figure is a through-cycle median, so a peak or trough year can’t distort it; the group median at the foot is the line to read each against.

CompanyRevenueCombined ratioLoss ratioROE
LMNDLemonade Inc.$738M72%-32%
GLREGreenlight Capital Re Ltd.$730M105%71%4%
NMIHNMI Holdings Inc.$706M15%
JRVRJames River Group Holdings Inc.$688M106%74%5%
BOWBowhead Specialty Holdings Inc.$552M96%64%12%
IGICInternational General Insurance Holdings Ltd.$517M8%
HIPOHippo Holdings Inc.$469M107%-43%
ASICAtegrity Specialty Insurance Company Holdings$424M91%59%12%
Group median7%
IV

The price

What a price has to assume.

What the price implies

price / tangible book

Enter the US price, in dollars: the NYSE/Nasdaq quote you hold. International General Insurance Holdings Ltd.'s US listing is the ordinary share itself. The record tables elsewhere on this page remain as filed.

An insurer is worth a multiple of its tangible book value, and the multiple it deserves is set by the return it earns on that book. Type today’s price; we show what you would be paying against what International General Insurance Holdings Ltd.’s record justifies.

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The assumptions

Tangible book / share, delivered15%/yr’20→’25

The justified multiple is (return on tangible equity − growth) ÷ (cost of equity − growth). An insurer earning exactly its cost of equity is worth about one times tangible book; the premium above that prices each point of durable excess return. A higher cost of equity lowers the justified multiple for an insurer.

Enter a price above to run it.

Price / tangible book
Justified by the return
Normalized return on tangible equity9%
Price / book
Earnings yield
P/E (3-yr avg ’23–’25)
Graham’s price gate

Graham applied the same standards to financial enterprises (Intelligent Investor ch.14): the 15× multiple cap on averaged earnings, and P/E times price-to-book at most 22.5. The gate marks the bargain-hunter’s floor, not a verdict.

Tangible book $426M on 43M shares, a 9% normalized return on it. The dials set the multiple such a return would justify; your price sets the multiple you are paying. It assumes the insurer keeps earning that return; an underwriting cycle, a reserve shortfall or a bad year on the float changes it, which is what the record and the 10-K are for.

Cite: Owner Scorecard, "International General Insurance Holdings Ltd. (IGIC), the owner's record," https://ownerscorecard.com/c/IGIC, data as of 2026-07-09.

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