Fire, Marine & Casualty Insurance
Horace Mann Educators Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an insurance holding company in the United States. The company operates through Property & Casualty, Life & Retirement, and Supplemental & Group Benefits segments. Its Property & Casualty segment offers insurance products, including private passenger auto insurance and residential home insurance; and provides auto coverages including liability and collision, and property coverage for homeowners and renters. The Life & Retirement segment markets tax-qualified fixed, fixed indexed, and variable annuities; and internal revenue code for educator, which allows public school employees and employees of other tax-exempt organizations, such as not-for-profit private schools, to utilize pretax income to make periodic contributions to a qualified retirement plan. Supplemental & Group Benefits segment offers employer-sponsored products including accident, critical illness, limited-benefit fixed indemnity insurance, term life, and short-term and long-term disability, as well as worksite direct products, such as supplemental heart, cancer, disability, and accident coverage. The company was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Springfield, Illinois.
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High margins render the company resilient under dire circumstances, hence able to drive competitors out or acquire them. ROE and ROA measure the average flow generated by each invested dollar. Their marginal value is a forecast of future growth, and it is considered by Buffett and Munger the most important single indicator.
Years | 12-2015 | 12-2016 | 12-2017 | 12-2018 | 12-2019 | 12-2020 | 12-2021 | 12-2022 | 12-2023 | TTM |
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Net Margin | 8.7% | 7.4% | 14% | 1.5% | 13% | 10% | 11% | -0.19% | 3% | 4.3% |
ROA | 1.3% | 1.1% | 0.79% | 0.18% | 1.9% | 1.2% | 1.2% | -0.088% | 0.38% | 0.55% |
ROE | 7.4% | 6.5% | 11% | 1.4% | 12% | 7.4% | 7.9% | -0.24% | 3.8% | 5.4% |
The average Net Margin over the past 5 years is +6.36%.
The trend of Net Margin over the past 5 years is -0.89%.
The average ROA over the past 5 years is +0.79%.
The trend of ROA over the past 5 years is -0.14%.
The average ROE over the past 5 years is +5.35%.
The trend of ROE over the past 5 years is -0.67%.
Being debt the number one cause of investment losses and company death, the ratio Debt/FCF is of utmost importance to guarantee safety. On the other hand the Graham’s stability measures the drawdown of earnings, hence indicating the reliability of the flow generated by the company.
Years | 12-2015 | 12-2016 | 12-2017 | 12-2018 | 12-2019 | 12-2020 | 12-2021 | 12-2022 | 12-2023 | TTM |
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Debt FCF | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Debt Equity | 0.20 | 0.19 | 0.20 | 0.23 | 0.28 | 0.24 | 0.28 | 0.46 | 0.46 | 0.45 |
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Graham Stability | - | - | 100% | 16% | 100% | 100% | 100% | -1.7% | 49% | -1.7% |
The Debt/FCF trailing twelve month is -.
The trend of Debt/FCF over the past 5 years is -.
Graham’s Stability measure stands at -0.02.
Growth can be dangerous when forecasting, simply projecting the current growth is in general wrong. A company passes through multiple phases, from being young and unprofitable, to the first periods of profitability and high growth, until it arrives at a period of regime with limited growth. Identifying in which phase the company is in may help forecasting.
Years | 12-2016 | 12-2018 | 12-2020 | 12-2022 | Trend |
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Revenue | 4.1% | 4.6% | 4.4% | 7.9% | 0.13% |
Net Income | -8.5% | 20% | -30% | - | 29% |
Stockholders Equity | -1.4% | -1.9% | -13% | 8% | -1.2% |
FCF | - | - | - | - | - |
The Revenue CAGR over the past 5 years is +4.6%.
The trend of Revenue growth rate over the past 5 years is +0.13%.
The Earnings CAGR over the past 5 years is +19.66%.
The trend of Earnings growth rate over the past 5 years is +29.31%.
The Equity CAGR over the past 5 years is -1.85%.
The trend of Equity growth rate over the past 5 years is -1.25%.
The FCF CAGR over the past 5 years is -.
The trend of FCF growth rate over the past 5 years is -.