W.R. Berkley Corporation (WRB)

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W.R. Berkley 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).

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W.R. Berkley Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $7.7 billion in fiscal 2016 to $15 billion in fiscal 2025, up 7.5% a year; it rose in 9 of 9 years; it never fell from a peak; 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, W.R. Berkley Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 1.6% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 28% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, W.R. Berkley Corporation earned about 18 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 78 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.8% over the year (the filed statements).

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W.R. Berkley Corporation's standing among 60 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $15 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 22% by size; a net margin of 12.1% ranks in the top 49%; revenue growth of 9.6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 44% (its annual reports).

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W.R. Berkley Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Berkley, William R Jr (Chairman, President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2016-05-26, 10.5 years (top 29% of its family); the 15 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 14.5 years (top 3%); 1 officer or director change was reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 15 people in charge now (top 3%; 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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W.R. Berkley Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $2.5 billion against no long-term debt tagged leaves 5.8% of its assets as net cash, top 21% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 24.4% of revenue (top 29%) (its annual report).

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W.R. Berkley Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 9.6% a year over the last three filed years against 7.5% over all 10, speeding up (bottom 40% of its family); the newest year grew 7.8% (top 44%); capital spending grew 6% a year (top 33%) (its annual reports). W.R. Berkley Corporation reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Insurance Domestic at $12 billion, Reinsurance and Monoline Excess at $1.8 billion. 2 of 2 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 87% of revenue (its annual report).

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W.R. Berkley Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $15 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 2.4% below the $15 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 37% of its family); net income of $1.8 billion against a prior three-year average of $1.5 billion (bottom 22%); a net margin of 12.1% against 12.2% before (bottom 24%) (its annual reports).