Fire Insurance Profits Hold at High Levels: Liquidating Values Average about 17% Below 1936; Importance of Reinvested Profits

FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES have not only made a striking recovery since the lows of the depression but, on some counts, have progressed beyond predepression highs. Marketwise, however, stocks in this group have placed far more conservative valuations on earnings and liquidating values than was the cas...

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Published in:Barron's (1921-1942) 1938-01, Vol.18 (3), p.9
Main Author: Van Deusen, Edgar A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Equity
Fire insurance
Insurance companies
Investments
Profits
Shareholders equity
Stock exchanges
Stockholders
Underwriting
Undistributed profits
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Summary:FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES have not only made a striking recovery since the lows of the depression but, on some counts, have progressed beyond predepression highs. Marketwise, however, stocks in this group have placed far more conservative valuations on earnings and liquidating values than was the case in the pre-depression period. A study of the com posite results of 30 representative fire insurance companies since...
ISSN:1077-8039