# Renaissancere Holdings (RNR.US)

Canonical: https://gigainvestors.com/s/RNR

Analysis as of: 2026-10-16T07:31:38.115Z. Financial observations: FY2015–FY2025.

Listing currency: USD. Reporting currency: USD.

## Verdict

Not a wonderful business

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

Share price: $344.16 per share; close as of 2026-10-15.

Estimated value: low $144.86 per share, central $181.07 per share, high $241.43 per share. Buy at or below the central value $181.07 per share. Valuation as of 2026-10-16T07:31:38.115Z; scenarios are not confidence intervals.

Expected annual return: 8.1% at the stated quote. About 8.1% a year at today's price (required return 10.0%). required return 10.0% a year (10% floor; US 10-year bond 5.1% + 4 points).

## Checklist

### understandable: fail

- positive earnings in fewer than 8 of 10 years

- Financial history: 10 years

- Profitable years in the last ten: 7

- Required profitable years: 8

- Return on common equity variation (informational): 1.99×

Chart: Net income; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: $481M

- FY2017: -$245M

- FY2018: $197M

- FY2019: $712M

- FY2020: $731M

- FY2021: -$73M

- FY2022: -$1.1B

- FY2023: $2.5B

- FY2024: $1.8B

- FY2025: $2.6B

### moat: fail

- Common book per share

- Underwriting economics assessed through return on tangible common equity

- median return on common equity below threshold

- Bank / P&C ROTE, median of available years: 9.8%

- Required median return: 12.0%

- Return uses tangible common equity: Yes

- Bank ROTE, second-lowest year: -6.5%

- Years with reported combined ratio: 0

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

- FY2016: 11.4%

- FY2017: -6.5%

- FY2018: 3.2%

- FY2019: 8.8%

- FY2020: 10.8%

- FY2021: -0.8%

- FY2022: -25.3%

- FY2023: 31.9%

- FY2024: 20.1%

- FY2025: 25.9%

### economics: pass

- Common book per share

- Book value per share + reinvested dividends, annualized return: 9.9%

- Book return interval: 10 years

- Starting book value per share: $99.53

- Ending book value per share: $233.60

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

- FY2016: 9.2%

- FY2017: -5.6%

- FY2018: 63.2%

- FY2019: 20.7%

- FY2020: -22.5%

- FY2021: 35.0%

- FY2022: -46.1%

- FY2023: 73.5%

- FY2024: 5.5%

- FY2025: 22.9%

### management: pass

- Common book per share

- Diluted shares, 10-year annual growth: 0.7%

- Diluted shares, 5-year annual growth: -0.3%

- Share growth excluding flagged crisis recapitalisations: 0.7%

- Five-year share growth excluding flagged crisis recapitalisations: -0.3%

- Flagged crisis recapitalisations: 0

- Book created / earnings retained after dividends and buybacks: 2.87×

- Book value created per share: $134.07

- Earnings retained per share after dividends and buybacks: $46.68

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

- FY2015: 100

- FY2016: 95

- FY2017: 92

- FY2018: 91

- FY2019: 99

- FY2020: 108

- FY2021: 108

- FY2022: 99

- FY2023: 109

- FY2024: 118

- FY2025: 107

### accounting: pass

- Financial accounting warning count: 0

- Known restatement years: 0

## Holders

- [Sarah Ketterer](https://gigainvestors.com/CAU): tracked 13F investor; follow the investor page for holding quarter and amounts.

- [Christopher Davis](https://gigainvestors.com/DAV): tracked 13F investor; follow the investor page for holding quarter and amounts.

- [Thomas Gayner](https://gigainvestors.com/MKL): tracked 13F investor; follow the investor page for holding quarter and amounts.

## Price story

The price assumes profits grow 7.9% a year forever · "RenaissanceRe's ILS Platform Supports Fee-Based Earnings Growth" (finance.yahoo.com, Aug 2026) · net income +44.2%

Story as of 2026-10-16T09:59:31.024Z; price observation 2026-10-15.

The price assumes profits grow 7.9% a year forever

- 2026-02-04: RNR Q4 Earnings Beat on Lower Claims Costs, Strong Investment Results ([finance.yahoo.com](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rnr-q4-earnings-beat-lower-184800446.html))

- 2026-07-23: RNR Q2 Earnings Beat on Higher Investment Income and Lower Expenses ([finance.yahoo.com](https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/rnr-q2-earnings-beat-higher-180700583.html))

### Net income · FY2025

net income +44.2%; source https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/913144/000091314426000012/rnr-20251231.htm; observed 2026-02-11.

- FY2016: $481M 

- FY2017: -$245M 

- FY2018: $197M 

- FY2019: $712M 

- FY2020: $731M 

- FY2021: -$73M 

- FY2022: -$1.1B 

- FY2023: $2.5B 

- FY2024: $1.8B 

- FY2025: $2.6B 

## Owner memo

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

### How it makes money

Operates in insurance reinsurance; annual sales are USD 12.8 billion.

- Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/913144/000091314426000012/rnr-20251231.htm#000091314426000012 (filed 2026-02-11); FY2025: revenue 12848074000.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16); RNR.US: RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides reinsurance and insurance products in the United States and internationally. The company operates through Property, and Casualty and Specialty segments. The Property segment writes property catastrophe excess of loss reinsurance contracts to insure insurance and reinsurance companies against natural and man-made catastrophes, including hurricanes, earthquakes, typhoons, and tsunamis, as well as winter storms, freezes, floods, fires, windstorms, tornadoes, explosions, and acts of terrorism; and other property class of products, such as proportional reinsurance, property per risk, property reinsurance, binding facilities, and regional U.S. multi-line reinsurance. The Casualty and Specialty segment writes various classes of products, such as directors and officers, medical malpractice, transactional liability, and professional indemnity; automobile and employer's liability, casualty clash, umbrella or excess casualty, workers' compensation, and general liability; financial and mortgage guaranty, political risk, surety, and trade credit; and accident and health, agriculture, aviation, construction, cyber, energy, marine, satellite, and terrorism. The company distributes products and services primarily through intermediaries. It invests in and manages funds. RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. was incorporated in 1993 and is headquartered in Pembroke, Bermuda.

### Why customers stay

It earns 9.8% on shareholders’ money, excluding intangible assets.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-02-11); 10-year return on tangible equity observations [[2016,0.11432798489079057],[2017,-0.06545853062888006],[2018,0.03185866661154377],[2019,0.08773199554860313],[2020,0.10799589384045064],[2021,-0.007997301301575192],[2022,-0.25300702785763396],[2023,0.3188142754684029],[2024,0.20121171011285163],[2025,0.2588614983472019]]; median 0.09786394469452689. 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 USD 1.6 billion of shares.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-02-11); Dividend observations: [[2016,73964000],[2017,73751000],[2018,82929000],[2019,96124000],[2020,99413000],[2021,100717000],[2022,100071000],[2023,110487000],[2024,116224000],[2025,110218000]]. Zero only counted when supported by a complete cash-flow statement.

- Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/913144/000091314426000012/rnr-20251231.htm (filed 2026-02-11); FY2025: cash repurchases 1599680000 USD.

### Are managers owners

Insiders own 2.3% of the company.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16); RNR.US SharesStats.PercentInsiders = 2.258 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 2026-02-11); Price 344.16; FX 1; original perpetual distributable cash 7.24290200881549; discount 0.1; growth 0.07895484074611958. Same book-value model and 4× ceiling; no ten-year operating fade applies. Closing-price date 2026-10-15.

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

- 2016-10: $124.29 per share

- 2016-11: $130.56 per share

- 2016-12: $136.22 per share

- 2017-01: $136.32 per share

- 2017-02: $147.64 per share

- 2017-03: $144.65 per share

- 2017-04: $142.17 per share

- 2017-05: $142.86 per share

- 2017-06: $139.05 per share

- 2017-07: $146.91 per share

- 2017-08: $139.16 per share

- 2017-09: $135.14 per share

- 2017-10: $138.36 per share

- 2017-11: $132.65 per share

- 2017-12: $125.59 per share

- 2018-01: $127.14 per share

- 2018-02: $128.28 per share

- 2018-03: $138.51 per share

- 2018-04: $136.04 per share

- 2018-05: $122.77 per share

- 2018-06: $120.32 per share

- 2018-07: $131.85 per share

- 2018-08: $132.96 per share

- 2018-09: $133.58 per share

- 2018-10: $122.16 per share

- 2018-11: $132.61 per share

- 2018-12: $133.70 per share

- 2019-01: $138.03 per share

- 2019-02: $147.05 per share

- 2019-03: $143.50 per share

- 2019-04: $155.36 per share

- 2019-05: $174.44 per share

- 2019-06: $178.01 per share

- 2019-07: $181.15 per share

- 2019-08: $180.55 per share

- 2019-09: $193.45 per share

- 2019-10: $187.18 per share

- 2019-11: $188.33 per share

- 2019-12: $196.02 per share

- 2020-01: $189.44 per share

- 2020-02: $170.40 per share

- 2020-03: $149.32 per share

- 2020-04: $146.01 per share

- 2020-05: $167.86 per share

- 2020-06: $171.03 per share

- 2020-07: $180.38 per share

- 2020-08: $183.74 per share

- 2020-09: $169.74 per share

- 2020-10: $161.72 per share

- 2020-11: $164.64 per share

- 2020-12: $165.82 per share

- 2021-01: $150.44 per share

- 2021-02: $166.98 per share

- 2021-03: $160.25 per share

- 2021-04: $168.81 per share

- 2021-05: $154.12 per share

- 2021-06: $148.82 per share

- 2021-07: $152.69 per share

- 2021-08: $156.73 per share

- 2021-09: $139.40 per share

- 2021-10: $141.80 per share

- 2021-11: $154.11 per share

- 2021-12: $169.33 per share

- 2022-01: $157.17 per share

- 2022-02: $150.78 per share

- 2022-03: $158.51 per share

- 2022-04: $143.52 per share

- 2022-05: $153.52 per share

- 2022-06: $156.37 per share

- 2022-07: $129.31 per share

- 2022-08: $135.26 per share

- 2022-09: $140.39 per share

- 2022-10: $154.68 per share

- 2022-11: $188.91 per share

- 2022-12: $184.23 per share

- 2023-01: $195.69 per share

- 2023-02: $214.90 per share

- 2023-03: $200.34 per share

- 2023-04: $215.41 per share

- 2023-05: $188.37 per share

- 2023-06: $186.52 per share

- 2023-07: $186.76 per share

- 2023-08: $187.89 per share

- 2023-09: $197.92 per share

- 2023-10: $219.59 per share

- 2023-11: $214.36 per share

- 2023-12: $196.00 per share

- 2024-01: $228.83 per share

- 2024-02: $224.82 per share

- 2024-03: $235.03 per share

- 2024-04: $219.25 per share

- 2024-05: $227.86 per share

- 2024-06: $223.51 per share

- 2024-07: $231.91 per share

- 2024-08: $254.79 per share

- 2024-09: $272.40 per share

- 2024-10: $262.40 per share

- 2024-11: $286.15 per share

- 2024-12: $248.81 per share

- 2025-01: $232.58 per share

- 2025-02: $237.62 per share

- 2025-03: $240.00 per share

- 2025-04: $241.93 per share

- 2025-05: $249.42 per share

- 2025-06: $242.90 per share

- 2025-07: $243.74 per share

- 2025-08: $242.99 per share

- 2025-09: $253.93 per share

- 2025-10: $254.09 per share

- 2025-11: $261.17 per share

- 2025-12: $281.16 per share

- 2026-01: $281.70 per share

- 2026-02: $302.46 per share

- 2026-03: $297.23 per share

- 2026-04: $306.97 per share

- 2026-05: $280.35 per share

- 2026-06: $316.90 per share

- 2026-07: $319.98 per share

- 2026-08: $327.64 per share

- 2026-09: $318.23 per share

- 2026-10: $344.16 per share

## Annual estimated value (USD per share)

- FY2016: low $141.73 per share, central $177.16 per share, high $236.22 per share

- FY2017: low $100.02 per share, central $125.02 per share, high $166.70 per share

- FY2018: low $165.74 per share, central $207.18 per share, high $276.24 per share

- FY2019: low $170.36 per share, central $212.95 per share, high $283.93 per share

- FY2020: low $125.81 per share, central $157.26 per share, high $209.68 per share

- FY2021: low $171.21 per share, central $214.01 per share, high $285.35 per share

- FY2022: low $73.57 per share, central $91.96 per share, high $122.62 per share

- FY2023: low $113.45 per share, central $141.82 per share, high $189.09 per share

- FY2024: low $119.73 per share, central $149.66 per share, high $199.55 per share

- FY2025: low $165.01 per share, central $206.26 per share, high $275.01 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

## Sources

[Original 10-K filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/913144/000091314426000012/rnr-20251231.htm); period 2025-12-31, filed 2026-02-11.

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

- [Sarah Ketterer](https://gigainvestors.com/CAU): 994 RNR shares; USD 315,000 reported position value; 0% of portfolio; hold; quarter 2026 Q2.
- [Christopher Davis](https://gigainvestors.com/DAV): 234,528 RNR shares; USD 74,322,000 reported position value; 0.32% of portfolio; reduce; quarter 2026 Q2.
- [Thomas Gayner](https://gigainvestors.com/MKL): 70,000 RNR shares; USD 22,183,000 reported position value; 0.17% of portfolio; hold; quarter 2026 Q2.

# RNR — RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd.

Held by 3 investors · USD 96,820,000 total · 2026 Q2 · reported price USD 316.90 (split-adjusted).
Page: https://gigainvestors.com/s/RNR

## Holders (2026 Q2)

| Investor | Value | % of their portfolio | This quarter |
|---|---:|---:|---|
| John Armitage (https://gigainvestors.com/EC) | USD 94,313,457 | 0.0% | sold |
| Christopher Davis (https://gigainvestors.com/DAV) | USD 74,322,000 | 0.3% | reduce -8.81% |
| Thomas Gayner (https://gigainvestors.com/MKL) | USD 22,183,000 | 0.2% | hold |
| Sarah Ketterer (https://gigainvestors.com/CAU) | USD 315,000 | 0.0% | hold |

## Total held by quarter

- 2021 Q2: USD 32,264,176 · 1 holder · USD 148.82
- 2021 Q3: USD 30,221,920 · 1 holder · USD 139.40
- 2021 Q4: USD 32,096,502 · 1 holder · USD 169.33
- 2022 Q1: USD 0 · 0 holders
- 2022 Q2: USD 0 · 0 holders
- 2022 Q3: USD 281,000 · 1 holder · USD 140.50
- 2022 Q4: USD 2,578,940 · 1 holder · USD 184.21
- 2023 Q1: USD 129,650,192 · 2 holders · USD 200.34
- 2023 Q2: USD 254,338,472 · 2 holders · USD 186.53
- 2023 Q3: USD 288,013,778 · 2 holders · USD 197.92
- 2023 Q4: USD 333,599,840 · 2 holders · USD 196.00
- 2024 Q1: USD 453,331,505 · 2 holders · USD 235.03
- 2024 Q2: USD 431,357,760 · 2 holders · USD 223.51
- 2024 Q3: USD 573,572,523 · 3 holders · USD 272.40
- 2024 Q4: USD 374,949,750 · 3 holders · USD 248.81
- 2025 Q1: USD 51,312,240 · 2 holders · USD 240.00
- 2025 Q2: USD 51,753,974 · 2 holders · USD 242.90
- 2025 Q3: USD 54,123,910 · 2 holders · USD 253.93
- 2025 Q4: USD 222,419,024 · 4 holders · USD 281.16
- 2026 Q1: USD 191,859,140 · 4 holders · USD 297.23
- 2026 Q2: USD 96,820,000 · 3 holders · USD 316.90