RLI Corp. (RLI)

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RLI Corp.'s filings since 2017 show 2 warning events: an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, 2 times, the latest 2020-02-25) (its current reports).

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RLI Corp.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $816 million in fiscal 2016 to $1.9 billion in fiscal 2025, up 9.7% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 11% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2023; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, RLI Corp.'s diluted share count grew about 0.3% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 38% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 9 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-09, buying about $2 million (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, RLI Corp. earned about 23 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 71 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.1% over the year (the filed statements).

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RLI Corp.'s standing among 60 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.9 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 44% by size; a net margin of 21.4% ranks in the top 21%; revenue growth of 3.5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 18% (its annual reports).

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RLI Corp.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Kliethermes, Craig W (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, as filed), filing under that title since 2022-02-10, 4.8 years (bottom 44% of its family); the 17 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 10.8 years (top 17%); 6 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 17 people in charge now (top 49%; 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.

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RLI Corp.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $52 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 0.8% of its assets as net cash, bottom 38% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 32.3% of revenue (top 17%) (its annual report).

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RLI Corp.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 3.5% a year over the last three filed years against 9.7% over all 10, slowing (bottom 10% of its family); the newest year grew 6.3% (bottom 49%); capital spending grew -2.1% a year (top 50%) (its annual reports). RLI Corp. reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Casualty at $954 million, Property Insurance at $512 million, Surety Insurance at $148 million. 2 of 3 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 59% of revenue (its annual report).

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RLI Corp.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.9 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 4.1% above the $1.8 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 17% of its family); net income of $403 million against a prior three-year average of $411 million (bottom 17%); a net margin of 21.4% against 24.7% before (bottom 13%) (its annual reports).