# People's Insurance of China (601319.SHG)

Canonical: https://gigainvestors.com/s/601319.SHG

Analysis as of: 2026-10-16T07:33:56.081Z. Financial observations: FY2015–FY2025.

Listing currency: CNY. Reporting currency: CNY.

## Verdict

Not a wonderful business

Quality tests for Buy: not passed (profit record: pass; earnings resilience is evidence only). Published buy qualification: no.

Share price: CNY 7.55 per share; close as of 2026-10-15.

Estimated value: low CNY 7.50 per share, central CNY 9.37 per share, high CNY 12.50 per share. Buy at or below the central value CNY 9.37 per share. Valuation as of 2026-10-16T07:33:56.081Z; scenarios are not confidence intervals.

Expected annual return: 11.0% at the stated quote. About 11.0% a year at today's price (required return 10.0%). required return 10.0% a year (10% floor; CN 10-year bond 1.7% + 4 points).

## Checklist

### understandable: pass

- Financial history: 10 years

- Profitable years in the last ten: 10

- Required profitable years: 8

- Return on common equity variation (informational): 0.20×

Chart: Net income; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: CNY 14B

- FY2017: CNY 16B

- FY2018: CNY 13B

- FY2019: CNY 22B

- FY2020: CNY 20B

- FY2021: CNY 21B

- FY2022: CNY 24B

- FY2023: CNY 22B

- FY2024: CNY 42B

- FY2025: CNY 47B

### moat: fail

- Common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity and common earnings

- Underwriting economics assessed through return on tangible common equity

- median return on common equity below threshold

- Bank / P&C ROTE, median of available years: 11.3%

- Required median return: 12.0%

- Return uses tangible common equity: Yes

- Bank ROTE, second-lowest year: 9.4%

- Years with reported combined ratio: 0

Chart: Return on tangible common equity; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: 11.4%

- FY2017: 11.8%

- FY2018: 8.6%

- FY2019: 12.2%

- FY2020: 10.0%

- FY2021: 10.0%

- FY2022: 11.2%

- FY2023: 9.4%

- FY2024: 15.9%

- FY2025: 15.5%

### economics: pass

- Common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity and common earnings

- Book value per share + reinvested dividends, annualized return: 13.8%

- Book return interval: 10 years

- Starting book value per share: CNY 2.74

- Ending book value per share: CNY 6.99

Chart: Annual book + dividend return; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: 10.8%

- FY2017: 11.4%

- FY2018: 12.9%

- FY2019: 17.1%

- FY2020: 19.0%

- FY2021: 9.9%

- FY2022: 5.5%

- FY2023: 16.0%

- FY2024: 15.8%

- FY2025: 20.4%

### management: pass

- Common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity and common earnings

- Diluted shares, 10-year annual growth: 0.4%

- Diluted shares, 5-year annual growth: 0.5%

- Share growth excluding flagged crisis recapitalisations: 0.4%

- Five-year share growth excluding flagged crisis recapitalisations: 0.5%

- Flagged crisis recapitalisations: 0

- Book created / earnings retained after dividends and buybacks: 1.15×

- Book value created per share: CNY 4.25

- Earnings retained per share after dividends and buybacks: CNY 3.68

Chart: Shares (first year = 100); fiscal year observations.

- FY2015: 100

- FY2016: 100

- FY2017: 100

- FY2018: 101

- FY2019: 104

- FY2020: 102

- FY2021: 104

- FY2022: 104

- FY2023: 104

- FY2024: 104

- FY2025: 104

### accounting: pass

- Financial accounting warning count: 0

- Known restatement years: 0

## Holders

## Price story

The price assumes profits grow 5% a year forever · net income +10.7%

Story as of 2026-10-16T09:59:58.359Z; price observation 2026-10-15.

The price assumes profits grow 5% a year forever

### Net income · FY2025

net income +10.7%; source https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/; observed 2026-10-16.

- FY2016: CNY 14B 

- FY2017: CNY 16B 

- FY2018: CNY 13B 

- FY2019: CNY 22B 

- FY2020: CNY 20B 

- FY2021: CNY 21B 

- FY2022: CNY 24B 

- FY2023: CNY 22B 

- FY2024: CNY 42B 

- FY2025: CNY 47B 

## Owner memo

Memo as of 2026-10-16T08:06:05.509Z.

### How it makes money

Operates in insurance property & casualty; annual sales are CNY 655.9 billion.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:33:56.081Z); FY2025: revenue 655914000000.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16); 601319.SHG: The People's Insurance Company (Group) of China Limited, an investment holding company, offers insurance products and services in the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong. It operates through Non-Life Insurance, Life Insurance, Health Insurance, Asset Management, and Other segments. The company provides motor vehicle, accidental injury and health, agricultural, liability, commercial property, and other insurances; life insurance products; health and medical insurance products; and reinsurance services. It is also involved in asset management and other business; acting as insurance agent; provision of endowment insurance, investment management, internet finance, and technology services. The company was founded in 1949 and is based in Beijing, the People's Republic of China.

### Why customers stay

It earns 11.3% on shareholders’ money, excluding intangible assets.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:33:56.081Z); 10-year return on tangible equity observations [[2016,0.11404758854800487],[2017,0.11834106395959983],[2018,0.08566651628141504],[2019,0.12248025984517742],[2020,0.10049404388714733],[2021,0.09961639616488935],[2022,0.1122540701673928],[2023,0.09354896841328847],[2024,0.15878116218272773],[2025,0.1552599870855218]]; median 0.11315082935769884. ROIC follows the displayed moat series; financial companies use return on tangible equity.

### Where the cash goes

Paid dividends in 10 of 10 years.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:33:56.081Z); Dividend observations: [[2016,2533000000],[2017,2885000000],[2018,3262000000],[2019,2021000000],[2020,10160000000],[2021,9268000000],[2022,9644000000],[2023,14938000000],[2024,11866000000],[2025,14651000000]]. Zero only counted when supported by a complete cash-flow statement.

### Are managers owners

Insiders own 76% of the company.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16); 601319.SHG SharesStats.PercentInsiders = 76.037 percentage points; cache date 2026-10-16.

### What the price says

The price assumes profits grow 5% a year forever.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:33:56.081Z); Price 7.55; FX 1; original perpetual distributable cash 0.3749784962282018; discount 0.1; growth 0.0503339740095097. Same book-value model and 4× ceiling; no ten-year operating fade applies. Closing-price date 2026-10-15.

## Monthly share-price history (CNY per share)

- 2018-11: CNY 6.45 per share

- 2018-12: CNY 5.38 per share

- 2019-01: CNY 5.78 per share

- 2019-02: CNY 7.96 per share

- 2019-03: CNY 9.59 per share

- 2019-04: CNY 8.59 per share

- 2019-05: CNY 9.06 per share

- 2019-06: CNY 9.49 per share

- 2019-07: CNY 9.09 per share

- 2019-08: CNY 8.40 per share

- 2019-09: CNY 8.60 per share

- 2019-10: CNY 8.55 per share

- 2019-11: CNY 6.59 per share

- 2019-12: CNY 7.59 per share

- 2020-01: CNY 7.26 per share

- 2020-02: CNY 6.77 per share

- 2020-03: CNY 6.30 per share

- 2020-04: CNY 6.35 per share

- 2020-05: CNY 6.21 per share

- 2020-06: CNY 6.44 per share

- 2020-07: CNY 7.14 per share

- 2020-08: CNY 7.22 per share

- 2020-09: CNY 6.77 per share

- 2020-10: CNY 6.63 per share

- 2020-11: CNY 6.93 per share

- 2020-12: CNY 6.57 per share

- 2021-01: CNY 6.03 per share

- 2021-02: CNY 6.13 per share

- 2021-03: CNY 5.94 per share

- 2021-04: CNY 6.06 per share

- 2021-05: CNY 6.16 per share

- 2021-06: CNY 5.93 per share

- 2021-07: CNY 5.03 per share

- 2021-08: CNY 5.14 per share

- 2021-09: CNY 5.06 per share

- 2021-10: CNY 5.02 per share

- 2021-11: CNY 4.65 per share

- 2021-12: CNY 4.70 per share

- 2022-01: CNY 4.55 per share

- 2022-02: CNY 4.63 per share

- 2022-03: CNY 4.58 per share

- 2022-04: CNY 4.38 per share

- 2022-05: CNY 4.68 per share

- 2022-06: CNY 5.06 per share

- 2022-07: CNY 4.66 per share

- 2022-08: CNY 4.99 per share

- 2022-09: CNY 5.01 per share

- 2022-10: CNY 4.85 per share

- 2022-11: CNY 5.42 per share

- 2022-12: CNY 5.22 per share

- 2023-01: CNY 5.15 per share

- 2023-02: CNY 5.22 per share

- 2023-03: CNY 5.20 per share

- 2023-04: CNY 6.22 per share

- 2023-05: CNY 6.12 per share

- 2023-06: CNY 5.84 per share

- 2023-07: CNY 6.31 per share

- 2023-08: CNY 5.84 per share

- 2023-09: CNY 5.90 per share

- 2023-10: CNY 5.34 per share

- 2023-11: CNY 5.05 per share

- 2023-12: CNY 4.84 per share

- 2024-01: CNY 5.10 per share

- 2024-02: CNY 5.25 per share

- 2024-03: CNY 5.20 per share

- 2024-04: CNY 5.25 per share

- 2024-05: CNY 5.30 per share

- 2024-06: CNY 5.15 per share

- 2024-07: CNY 5.73 per share

- 2024-08: CNY 6.00 per share

- 2024-09: CNY 7.44 per share

- 2024-10: CNY 7.10 per share

- 2024-11: CNY 7.24 per share

- 2024-12: CNY 7.62 per share

- 2025-01: CNY 7.16 per share

- 2025-02: CNY 6.60 per share

- 2025-03: CNY 6.82 per share

- 2025-04: CNY 7.06 per share

- 2025-05: CNY 8.27 per share

- 2025-06: CNY 8.71 per share

- 2025-07: CNY 8.18 per share

- 2025-08: CNY 8.98 per share

- 2025-09: CNY 7.79 per share

- 2025-10: CNY 8.44 per share

- 2025-11: CNY 8.66 per share

- 2025-12: CNY 8.95 per share

- 2026-01: CNY 9.21 per share

- 2026-02: CNY 8.57 per share

- 2026-03: CNY 7.27 per share

- 2026-04: CNY 7.18 per share

- 2026-05: CNY 6.84 per share

- 2026-06: CNY 6.76 per share

- 2026-07: CNY 7.37 per share

- 2026-08: CNY 7.45 per share

- 2026-09: CNY 7.98 per share

- 2026-10: CNY 7.60 per share

## Annual estimated value (CNY per share)

- FY2016: low CNY 4.04 per share, central CNY 5.05 per share, high CNY 6.73 per share

- FY2017: low CNY 3.74 per share, central CNY 4.68 per share, high CNY 6.24 per share

- FY2018: low CNY 3.97 per share, central CNY 4.97 per share, high CNY 6.62 per share

- FY2019: low CNY 4.77 per share, central CNY 5.96 per share, high CNY 7.95 per share

- FY2020: low CNY 5.22 per share, central CNY 6.52 per share, high CNY 8.69 per share

- FY2021: low CNY 5.28 per share, central CNY 6.60 per share, high CNY 8.80 per share

- FY2022: low CNY 5.17 per share, central CNY 5.69 per share, high CNY 6.32 per share

- FY2023: low CNY 5.65 per share, central CNY 6.22 per share, high CNY 6.91 per share

- FY2024: low CNY 6.63 per share, central CNY 8.28 per share, high CNY 11.04 per share

- FY2025: low CNY 7.50 per share, central CNY 9.37 per share, high CNY 12.50 per share

Historical values use today's bond yield for every fiscal year

Historical values use today's FX rate into trading currency for every fiscal year

Historical values use current restated fundamentals and current commodity classification; they are not point-in-time estimates

Prior published observations retained from 2026-10-15T06:39:41.194Z where newer inputs omit a numeric field or fiscal period.

## Sources

Estimates depend on assumptions and are not guarantees or investment advice. Underlying data remains subject to its source licenses; public reading does not grant bulk redistribution rights.

## Reported holder observations