Company Analysis

Cincinnati Financial Corporation (CINF)

Nasdaq: CINF · Fire, Marine & Casualty Insurance · Fairfield, OH · filing with the SEC since 1994
Grade6.3
◀ Past 6.1● Present 6.5▶ Future 6.1

The grade of Cincinnati Financial Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
6.3/10
◀ Past6.140% of the headline
● Present6.535% of the headline
▶ Future6.125% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

6.1/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.3/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 33% of this tense · 73rd percentile among 60 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Cincinnati Financial Corporation's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
4.3/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+9.8% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 9 of 10.

weight 22% of this tense · 44th percentile among 56 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Cincinnati Financial Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $5.4 billion in fiscal 2016 to $13 billion in fiscal 2025, up 9.8% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 32% from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2022; net income was positive in 9 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span9.8%top 37% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 27% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 40% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak31.8%bottom 24% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
6.1/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 0.2% a year. 24% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 1 sales, 3 purchases.

weight 45% of this tense · 61st percentile among 49 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Cincinnati Financial Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 0.2% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 24% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 1 sale and 3 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-10, buying about $357 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 37% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 41% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

6.5/1035% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
6.3/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 15%: 15¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 61%: owes 61¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 63rd percentile among 60 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Cincinnati Financial Corporation earned about 15 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 61 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.1% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 14% of its family
  • return on equitytop 46% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 49% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
7.4/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 26% of 60 in its family; net margin 18.9%.

weight 33% of this tense · 74th percentile among 60 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Cincinnati Financial Corporation's standing among 60 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $13 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 26% by size; a net margin of 18.9% ranks in the top 26%; revenue growth of 24.4% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 26% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$12.63Btop 26% of its family
  • net margin18.9%top 26% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth24.4%top 26% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
5.6/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 44% of 47 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2024.

weight 22% of this tense · 56th percentile among 47 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Cincinnati Financial Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Spray, Stephen M (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2024-08-21, 2.2 years (bottom 27% of its family); the 32 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 8.4 years (top 39%); 7 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 32 people in charge now (top 19%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge7 in three years among 32 peopletop 19% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed8.4 yearstop 39% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record2.2 yearsbottom 27% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

6.1/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
5.9/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 41% of 60 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 59th percentile among 60 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Cincinnati Financial Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $1.4 billion against debt of $790 million leaves 1.6% of its assets as net cash, bottom 46% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 24.5% of revenue (top 27%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets1.6%bottom 46% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue24.5%top 27% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
7.7/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 23% of 56 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 77th percentile among 56 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Cincinnati Financial Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 24.4% a year over the last three filed years against 9.8% over all 10, speeding up (top 10% of its family); the newest year grew 11.4% (top 33%); capital spending grew 10.1% a year (top 26%) (its annual reports). Cincinnati Financial Corporation reported 5 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Commercial Lines Insurance at $4.9 billion, Personal Lines Insurance at $3.2 billion, Investment Segment of CINF at $2.6 billion, and 2 more. 5 of 5 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 42% of revenue (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+14.6 points a yeartop 10% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth11.4%top 33% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending10.1%top 26% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
4.7/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 47% of 56 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 47th percentile among 56 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Cincinnati Financial Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $13 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 15.2% below the $15 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 17% of its family); net income of $2.4 billion against a prior three-year average of $1.2 billion (top 46%); a net margin of 18.9% against 10.4% before (top 29%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-15.2%bottom 17% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+97%top 46% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average+8.5 pointstop 29% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton CINF · research, not advice