# Münchener Rück AG (MUV2.XETRA)

Canonical: https://gigainvestors.com/s/MUV2.XETRA

Analysis as of: 2026-10-16T07:33:45.989Z. Financial observations: FY2015–FY2025.

Listing currency: EUR. Reporting currency: EUR.

## 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: EUR 544.80 per share; close as of 2026-10-15.

Estimated value: low EUR 207.26 per share, central EUR 254.11 per share, high EUR 328.34 per share. Buy at or below the central value EUR 254.11 per share. Valuation as of 2026-10-16T07:33:45.989Z; scenarios are not confidence intervals.

Expected annual return: 7.6% at the stated quote. About 7.6% a year at today's price (required return 10.0%). required return 10.0% a year (10% floor; DE 10-year bond 3.4% + 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): 0.51×

Chart: Net income; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: EUR 2.6B

- FY2017: EUR 375M

- FY2018: EUR 2.3B

- FY2019: EUR 2.7B

- FY2020: EUR 1.2B

- FY2021: EUR 2.9B

- FY2022: EUR 3.4B

- FY2023: EUR 4.6B

- FY2024: EUR 5.7B

- FY2025: EUR 6.1B

### moat: fail

- Common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity

- Underwriting economics assessed through return on tangible common equity

- median return on common equity below threshold

- Bank / P&C ROTE, median of available years: 10.7%

- Required median return: 12.0%

- Return uses tangible common equity: Yes

- Bank ROTE, second-lowest year: 4.7%

- Years with reported combined ratio: 0

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

- FY2016: 9.4%

- FY2017: 1.5%

- FY2018: 10.4%

- FY2019: 10.4%

- FY2020: 4.7%

- FY2021: 11.1%

- FY2022: 20.8%

- FY2023: 18.1%

- FY2024: 20.1%

- FY2025: 22.4%

### economics: pass

- Common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity

- Book value per share + reinvested dividends, annualized return: 7.1%

- Book return interval: 10 years

- Starting book value per share: EUR 218.62

- Ending book value per share: EUR 256.26

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

- FY2016: 7.1%

- FY2017: -6.9%

- FY2018: -1.3%

- FY2019: 20.6%

- FY2020: 2.7%

- FY2021: 7.9%

- FY2022: -26.3%

- FY2023: 52.0%

- FY2024: 19.6%

- FY2025: 12.5%

### management: fail

- Common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity

- book per share gain below retained common earnings per share

- Diluted shares, 10-year annual growth: -0.8%

- Diluted shares, 5-year annual growth: -1.5%

- Share growth excluding flagged crisis recapitalisations: -0.8%

- Five-year share growth excluding flagged crisis recapitalisations: -1.5%

- Flagged crisis recapitalisations: 0

- Book created / earnings retained after dividends and buybacks: 0.73×

- Book value created per share: EUR 37.64

- Earnings retained per share after dividends and buybacks: EUR 51.30

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

- FY2015: 100

- FY2016: 100

- FY2017: 100

- FY2018: 100

- FY2019: 100

- FY2020: 100

- FY2021: 100

- FY2022: 99

- FY2023: 97

- FY2024: 95

- FY2025: 92

### accounting: pass

- Financial accounting warning count: 0

- Known restatement years: 0

## Holders

## Price story

The price assumes profits grow 7.9% a year forever · net income +7.6%

Story as of 2026-10-16T09:59:57.670Z; price observation 2026-10-15.

The price assumes profits grow 7.9% a year forever

### Net income · FY2025

net income +7.6%; source https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/; observed 2026-10-16.

- FY2016: EUR 2.6B 

- FY2017: EUR 375M 

- FY2018: EUR 2.3B 

- FY2019: EUR 2.7B 

- FY2020: EUR 1.2B 

- FY2021: EUR 2.9B 

- FY2022: EUR 3.4B 

- FY2023: EUR 4.6B 

- FY2024: EUR 5.7B 

- FY2025: EUR 6.1B 

## Owner memo

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

### How it makes money

Operates in insurance reinsurance; annual sales are EUR 69.3 billion.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:33:45.989Z); FY2025: revenue 69302000000.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16); MUV2.XETRA: Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft in München engages in the insurance and reinsurance businesses worldwide. The company operates through six segments: Life and Health Reinsurance, Property-Casualty Reinsurance, Global Specialty Insurance, ERGO Life and Health Germany, ERGO Property-Casualty Germany, and ERGO International. The company offers life and health reinsurance solutions, such as digital underwriting and advanced analytics solutions, health insurance management system, financial market risks, financing, portfolio risk management, digitalized investment-linked solution, data analytics, underwriting and claims, medical research, capital management, and health market, as well as MIRA digital suite that includes MIRA PoS, MIRApply insured and physician, claims risk assessment, and CLARA plus. It also provides property and casualty reinsurance solutions, including agricultural reinsurance; business advisory, personal lines, portfolio management, insurance consulting, commercial motor consulting; infrastructure risk; property insurance, location risk, insurance linked securities, and NatCatSERVICE for natural catastrophe loss database; prospective structured and retroactive reinsurance; risk transfer; cyber; and data analytics, REALYTIX ZERO, and cert2go. In addition, the company offers solutions for industry clients, such as corporate risk, new tech, green tech, parametric, and aviation and space solutions, as well as risk services. Further, it provides specialty property casualty insurance, such as professional liability, marine, cyber, aviation, and space for commercial and private customers. Additionally, the company offers life, property-casualty, health, legal protection, and travel insurance products under the ERGO brand; and insurance solutions for agriculture, captive, epidemic, cyber, and renewable energy sectors. The company was founded in 1880 and is based in Munich, Germany.

### Why customers stay

It earns 10.7% on shareholders’ money, excluding intangible assets.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:33:45.989Z); 10-year return on tangible equity observations [[2016,0.09417776966599745],[2017,0.015418139955595756],[2018,0.10356886657101864],[2019,0.10366085699063855],[2020,0.04677662327629495],[2021,0.11088427658689652],[2022,0.20766019241241604],[2023,0.1810676940011007],[2024,0.20084790673025968],[2025,0.22406152719282182]]; median 0.10727256678876754. ROIC follows the displayed moat series; financial companies use return on tangible equity.

### Where the cash goes

Paid dividends in 10 of 10 years; bought back EUR 1.9 billion of shares.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:33:45.989Z); Dividend observations: [[2016,1330000000],[2017,1338000000],[2018,1287000000],[2019,1336000000],[2020,1388000000],[2021,1378000000],[2022,1549000000],[2023,1583000000],[2024,2006000000],[2025,2613000000]]. Zero only counted when supported by a complete cash-flow statement.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:33:45.989Z); FY2025: cash repurchases 1878000000 EUR.

### Are managers owners

Insiders own 0% of the company.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16); MUV2.XETRA SharesStats.PercentInsiders = 0 percentage points; cache date 2026-10-16.

### What the price says

The price assumes profits grow 7.9% a year forever.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:33:45.989Z); Price 544.8; FX 1; original perpetual distributable cash 11.240345575016716; discount 0.1; growth 0.07936794130870647. Same book-value model and 4× ceiling; no ten-year operating fade applies. Closing-price date 2026-10-15.

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

- 2016-10: EUR 176.60 per share

- 2016-11: EUR 171.85 per share

- 2016-12: EUR 179.65 per share

- 2017-01: EUR 173.80 per share

- 2017-02: EUR 178.40 per share

- 2017-03: EUR 183.40 per share

- 2017-04: EUR 175.95 per share

- 2017-05: EUR 175.75 per share

- 2017-06: EUR 176.55 per share

- 2017-07: EUR 181.50 per share

- 2017-08: EUR 173.40 per share

- 2017-09: EUR 180.90 per share

- 2017-10: EUR 192.05 per share

- 2017-11: EUR 186.95 per share

- 2017-12: EUR 180.75 per share

- 2018-01: EUR 189.55 per share

- 2018-02: EUR 184.10 per share

- 2018-03: EUR 188.85 per share

- 2018-04: EUR 189.95 per share

- 2018-05: EUR 176.30 per share

- 2018-06: EUR 181.05 per share

- 2018-07: EUR 189.75 per share

- 2018-08: EUR 185.80 per share

- 2018-09: EUR 190.75 per share

- 2018-10: EUR 189.95 per share

- 2018-11: EUR 191.90 per share

- 2018-12: EUR 190.55 per share

- 2019-01: EUR 194.50 per share

- 2019-02: EUR 207.10 per share

- 2019-03: EUR 211.00 per share

- 2019-04: EUR 223.00 per share

- 2019-05: EUR 216.10 per share

- 2019-06: EUR 220.70 per share

- 2019-07: EUR 217.80 per share

- 2019-08: EUR 217.90 per share

- 2019-09: EUR 237.40 per share

- 2019-10: EUR 249.00 per share

- 2019-11: EUR 260.60 per share

- 2019-12: EUR 263.00 per share

- 2020-01: EUR 266.30 per share

- 2020-02: EUR 230.70 per share

- 2020-03: EUR 184.10 per share

- 2020-04: EUR 200.80 per share

- 2020-05: EUR 204.60 per share

- 2020-06: EUR 231.40 per share

- 2020-07: EUR 224.80 per share

- 2020-08: EUR 241.70 per share

- 2020-09: EUR 216.60 per share

- 2020-10: EUR 200.80 per share

- 2020-11: EUR 233.60 per share

- 2020-12: EUR 242.80 per share

- 2021-01: EUR 218.80 per share

- 2021-02: EUR 243.00 per share

- 2021-03: EUR 262.60 per share

- 2021-04: EUR 240.65 per share

- 2021-05: EUR 236.15 per share

- 2021-06: EUR 230.95 per share

- 2021-07: EUR 227.90 per share

- 2021-08: EUR 247.45 per share

- 2021-09: EUR 236.90 per share

- 2021-10: EUR 256.20 per share

- 2021-11: EUR 238.35 per share

- 2021-12: EUR 260.50 per share

- 2022-01: EUR 279.05 per share

- 2022-02: EUR 247.15 per share

- 2022-03: EUR 243.00 per share

- 2022-04: EUR 227.30 per share

- 2022-05: EUR 227.70 per share

- 2022-06: EUR 224.20 per share

- 2022-07: EUR 221.10 per share

- 2022-08: EUR 238.20 per share

- 2022-09: EUR 247.50 per share

- 2022-10: EUR 267.40 per share

- 2022-11: EUR 301.20 per share

- 2022-12: EUR 304.00 per share

- 2023-01: EUR 331.00 per share

- 2023-02: EUR 326.10 per share

- 2023-03: EUR 322.50 per share

- 2023-04: EUR 340.50 per share

- 2023-05: EUR 334.00 per share

- 2023-06: EUR 343.60 per share

- 2023-07: EUR 342.60 per share

- 2023-08: EUR 358.20 per share

- 2023-09: EUR 369.10 per share

- 2023-10: EUR 378.50 per share

- 2023-11: EUR 390.80 per share

- 2023-12: EUR 375.10 per share

- 2024-01: EUR 394.20 per share

- 2024-02: EUR 430.40 per share

- 2024-03: EUR 452.30 per share

- 2024-04: EUR 412.20 per share

- 2024-05: EUR 457.90 per share

- 2024-06: EUR 467.00 per share

- 2024-07: EUR 455.60 per share

- 2024-08: EUR 489.30 per share

- 2024-09: EUR 494.30 per share

- 2024-10: EUR 470.20 per share

- 2024-11: EUR 494.30 per share

- 2024-12: EUR 487.10 per share

- 2025-01: EUR 522.40 per share

- 2025-02: EUR 546.60 per share

- 2025-03: EUR 582.40 per share

- 2025-04: EUR 601.60 per share

- 2025-05: EUR 571.40 per share

- 2025-06: EUR 550.60 per share

- 2025-07: EUR 575.60 per share

- 2025-08: EUR 544.60 per share

- 2025-09: EUR 543.40 per share

- 2025-10: EUR 536.40 per share

- 2025-11: EUR 544.00 per share

- 2025-12: EUR 562.20 per share

- 2026-01: EUR 512.40 per share

- 2026-02: EUR 555.60 per share

- 2026-03: EUR 539.40 per share

- 2026-04: EUR 510.80 per share

- 2026-05: EUR 452.30 per share

- 2026-06: EUR 488.50 per share

- 2026-07: EUR 522.20 per share

- 2026-08: EUR 518.80 per share

- 2026-09: EUR 502.40 per share

- 2026-10: EUR 529.40 per share

## Annual estimated value (EUR per share)

- FY2016: low EUR 230.55 per share, central EUR 253.60 per share, high EUR 281.78 per share

- FY2017: low EUR 188.16 per share, central EUR 206.98 per share, high EUR 229.97 per share

- FY2018: low EUR 172.55 per share, central EUR 189.80 per share, high EUR 210.89 per share

- FY2019: low EUR 187.33 per share, central EUR 232.66 per share, high EUR 306.92 per share

- FY2020: low EUR 164.41 per share, central EUR 198.31 per share, high EUR 249.82 per share

- FY2021: low EUR 179.31 per share, central EUR 219.84 per share, high EUR 284.06 per share

- FY2022: low EUR 112.62 per share, central EUR 138.09 per share, high EUR 178.42 per share

- FY2023: low EUR 177.67 per share, central EUR 217.83 per share, high EUR 281.47 per share

- FY2024: low EUR 202.29 per share, central EUR 248.02 per share, high EUR 320.47 per share

- FY2025: low EUR 199.87 per share, central EUR 245.05 per share, high EUR 316.63 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 2026-10-15T06:39:32.249Z 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.
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Not a wonderful business

2 quality tests fail. A lower price would not fix the business.

Share price
EUR 544.80
Buy up to
EUR 254.11
Expected / yr
7.6% at today's price (10.0% at central value)

The business

How it makes money
Why customers stay
Where the cash goes
Are managers owners
What the price says

1. Is this a good business?

Evidence only; not required for Buy

Profits were positive in 10 years (at least 8 needed).

10y median
EUR 2.8B
Worst year
EUR 375M
Latest · 2025
EUR 6.1B

Earned a median 10.7% on tangible equity (minimum 12%).

10y median
10.7%
Worst year
1.5%
Latest · 2025
22.4%

Book value plus dividends grew 7.1% a year (minimum 7%).

10y median
7.5%
Worst year
-26.3%
Latest · 2025
12.5%

Book value gained 37.64 per share against 51.3 kept (must cover the amount kept).

11y median
100
Worst year
100
Latest · 2025
92

0 accounting warnings were found (none allowed).

accounting warnings
0
Passing bar
≤ 0

Profit record · pass 0 loss years in 10 (at most 2), three-year average earnings per share 41.27 EUR.

2. Is the price low enough?

Price & return math
Value rangeEUR 207.26 – EUR 328.34
Buy at or belowCentral value EUR 254.11
Discount to value1 − 544.80 / 254.11 = -114.4%
Return / yearAbout 7.6% a year at today's price (required return 10.0%)
Cash-flow inputsBook EUR 218.23/share; ROE 10.7%; first payout EUR 11.24/share, growing 5.6% perpetually (4× book payout cap applied).
Required return10.0% / year, earned by construction at the central value
Net incomeEUR 6.1B
6.1B020162025
FY2016 · Net income: EUR 2.6B; FY2017 · Net income: EUR 375M; FY2018 · Net income: EUR 2.3B; FY2019 · Net income: EUR 2.7B; FY2020 · Net income: EUR 1.2B; FY2021 · Net income: EUR 2.9B; FY2022 · Net income: EUR 3.4B; FY2023 · Net income: EUR 4.6B; FY2024 · Net income: EUR 5.7B; FY2025 · Net income: EUR 6.1B
Net income
Book / shareEUR 256.26
256.26020162025
FY2016 · Book / share: EUR 224.66; FY2017 · Book / share: EUR 199.69; FY2018 · Book / share: EUR 187.98; FY2019 · Book / share: EUR 217.13; FY2020 · Book / share: EUR 213.11; FY2021 · Book / share: EUR 220.05; FY2022 · Book / share: EUR 151.14; FY2023 · Book / share: EUR 218.05; FY2024 · Book / share: EUR 245.63; FY2025 · Book / share: EUR 256.26
Book / share
Dividend / shareEUR 20.14
20.14020162025
FY2016 · Dividend / share: EUR 9.48; FY2017 · Dividend / share: EUR 9.54; FY2018 · Dividend / share: EUR 9.17; FY2019 · Dividend / share: EUR 9.52; FY2020 · Dividend / share: EUR 9.89; FY2021 · Dividend / share: EUR 9.84; FY2022 · Dividend / share: EUR 11.11; FY2023 · Dividend / share: EUR 11.64; FY2024 · Dividend / share: EUR 15.10; FY2025 · Dividend / share: EUR 20.14
Dividend / share
Return on tangible equity22.4%
22.4%0.0%20162025
FY2016 · Return on tangible equity: 9.4%; FY2017 · Return on tangible equity: 1.5%; FY2018 · Return on tangible equity: 10.4%; FY2019 · Return on tangible equity: 10.4%; FY2020 · Return on tangible equity: 4.7%; FY2021 · Return on tangible equity: 11.1%; FY2022 · Return on tangible equity: 20.8%; FY2023 · Return on tangible equity: 18.1%; FY2024 · Return on tangible equity: 20.1%; FY2025 · Return on tangible equity: 22.4%
Return on tangible equity
Diluted shares130M
140M020162025
FY2016 · Diluted shares: 140M; FY2017 · Diluted shares: 140M; FY2018 · Diluted shares: 140M; FY2019 · Diluted shares: 140M; FY2020 · Diluted shares: 140M; FY2021 · Diluted shares: 140M; FY2022 · Diluted shares: 139M; FY2023 · Diluted shares: 136M; FY2024 · Diluted shares: 133M; FY2025 · Diluted shares: 130M
Diluted shares
Prices 15 Oct 2026 · FY2025