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SLDE, Slide Insurance Holdings Inc.
We utilize our differentiated technology and data-driven approach to focus on market opportunities that are underserved by other insurance companies.
Launched in 2021, we are a technology enabled, fast-growing, coastal specialty insurer.
We do not depend on any one key product or product line within the coastal specialty homeowners and commercial residential insurance market.
The business
What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.
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. 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.
The record
Ten years of arithmetic, read across the cycle.
Quality & stewardship
Returns, the balance sheet, capital allocation, and pay.
Owner’s Scorecard
Is it a good business?
- Not enough dataIndustry peers: median 97%
What this means
Premiums or claims weren't found in the filing data.
- Return on equity 40%StrongNet income $444M ÷ equity $1.1BIndustry peers: median 6%
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
- Float —Not enough data
What this means
Loss reserves weren't found.
- Not enough data
What this means
Net investment income wasn't found.
Does AI threaten the moat?
Low contestabilityThe moat is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded, the kind AI cuts costs within but does not contest.
The filing raises AI among its risks, but in other terms (security, regulation, energy or the like), not as a competitor to its product; it frames AI mainly as a capability.
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, and the company is using it that way.
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.
Management, ownership & pay
read the proxy →From the proxy: how much of the business the people running it own, and how they are paid.
- Insider ownership50.8%
The stake all directors and executive officers hold together, per the 2026 proxy: skin in the game, the first thing Munger reads.
- Stock-based compensation$12M
The slice of the business handed to employees in shares this year, 1% of revenue, equal to 2% of operating profit. Buffett's oldest accounting fight: this is compensation, compensation is an expense, real whether or not the headline earnings admit it. One trap: the cash-flow statement adds SBC back, so the operating cash, and the owner earnings drawn from it, are flattered by exactly this amount; counted as the cost it is, what an owner keeps is lower.
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.
| Company | Revenue | Combined ratio | Loss ratio | ROE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROOTRoot Inc. | $1.5B | — | — | -62% |
| SKWDSkyward Specialty Insurance Group Inc. | $1.4B | 94% | — | 13% |
| SAFTSafety Insurance Group Inc. | $1.3B | 97% | 65% | 10% |
| SLDESlide Insurance Holdings Inc. | $1.2B | — | — | 40% |
| PRAProAssurance Corporation | $1.1B | 109% | 76% | 3% |
| DGICADonegal Group Inc. | $978M | 101% | 67% | 6% |
| HCIHCI Group Inc. | $901M | 96% | 55% | 13% |
| TIPTTiptree Inc. | $1.5B | — | 49% | 5% |
| Group median | — | — | — | 8% |
The price
What a price has to assume.
What the price implies
reverse-DCFA bank / financial isn't read on an owner-earnings DCF; its economics live on the balance sheet (book value, the return earned on it, and the cash the assets throw off).
Manual order: ← SLDB its page in the Manual SLDP →
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