# Tower (TWR.AU)

Canonical: https://gigainvestors.com/s/TWR.AU

Analysis as of: 2026-10-16T07:47:55.872Z. Financial observations: FY2015–FY2025.

Listing currency: AUD. Reporting currency: NZD.

## 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: AUD 1.68 per share; close as of 2026-10-15.

Estimated value: low AUD 0.29 per share, central AUD 0.33 per share, high AUD 0.38 per share. Buy at or below the central value AUD 0.33 per share. Valuation as of 2026-10-16T07:47:55.872Z; scenarios are not confidence intervals.

Expected annual return: 3.9% at the stated quote. About 3.9% a year at today's price (required return 10.0%). required return 10.0% a year (10% floor; AU 10-year bond 5.2% + 4 points).

## Checklist

### understandable: fail

- positive earnings in fewer than 8 of 10 years

- Financial history: 10 years

- Profitable years in the last ten: 6

- Required profitable years: 8

- Return on common equity variation (informational): 2.07×

Chart: Net income; fiscal year observations.

- FY2016: NZD -22M

- FY2017: NZD -8.5M

- FY2018: NZD -6.8M

- FY2019: NZD 17M

- FY2020: NZD 12M

- FY2021: NZD 19M

- FY2022: NZD 19M

- FY2023: NZD -1.2M

- FY2024: NZD 74M

- FY2025: NZD 84M

### 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: 6.7%

- Required median return: 12.0%

- Return uses tangible common equity: Yes

- Bank ROTE, second-lowest year: -5.2%

- Years with reported combined ratio: 0

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

- FY2016: -13.1%

- FY2017: -5.2%

- FY2018: -3.3%

- FY2019: 9.0%

- FY2020: 5.2%

- FY2021: 8.2%

- FY2022: 10.2%

- FY2023: -0.6%

- FY2024: 28.2%

- FY2025: 32.5%

### economics: fail

- Common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity and common earnings

- book value per share plus dividends compounded below 7% annually

- Book value per share + reinvested dividends, annualized return: 5.5%

- Book return interval: 10 years

- Starting book value per share: NZD 1.27

- Ending book value per share: NZD 1.17

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

- FY2016: -10.4%

- FY2017: -33.9%

- FY2018: 29.3%

- FY2019: 3.1%

- FY2020: 9.1%

- FY2021: 5.2%

- FY2022: 8.1%

- FY2023: -0.7%

- FY2024: 23.7%

- FY2025: 41.4%

### management: fail

- Common book per share

- Parent-total proxy for preferred equity and common earnings

- book per share gain below retained common earnings per share

- Diluted shares, 10-year annual growth: 3.2%

- Diluted shares, 5-year annual growth: -6.6%

- Share growth excluding flagged crisis recapitalisations: 3.2%

- Five-year share growth excluding flagged crisis recapitalisations: -6.6%

- Flagged crisis recapitalisations: 0

- Book value created per share: NZD -0.10

- Earnings retained per share after dividends and buybacks: NZD -0.37

### accounting: pass

- Financial accounting warning count: 0

- Known restatement years: 0

## Holders

## Price story

The price assumes profits grow 8.5% a year forever · net income +12.6%

Story as of 2026-10-16T10:00:13.754Z; price observation 2026-10-15.

The price assumes profits grow 8.5% a year forever

### Net income · FY2025

net income +12.6%; source https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/; observed 2026-10-16.

- FY2016: NZD -22M 

- FY2017: NZD -8.5M 

- FY2018: NZD -6.8M 

- FY2019: NZD 17M 

- FY2020: NZD 12M 

- FY2021: NZD 19M 

- FY2022: NZD 19M 

- FY2023: NZD -1.2M 

- FY2024: NZD 74M 

- FY2025: NZD 84M 

## Owner memo

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

### How it makes money

Operates in insurance property & casualty; annual sales are NZD 541.6 million.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:47:55.872Z); FY2025: revenue 541558000.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16); TWR.AU: Tower Limited provides general insurance products in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Its insurance products include car, house, contents, contract works and renovation cover, landlord, boat, business, travel, pet, renters, house and contents bundle, electric vehicle, motorbike and motorcycle, lifestyle block, caravan or trailer, as well as motorhome, campervan and RV insurance. It also offers multi-policy discount insurance. Tower Limited was founded in 1869 and is headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand.

### Why customers stay

It earns 6.7% on shareholders’ money, excluding intangible assets.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:47:55.872Z); 10-year return on tangible equity observations [[2016,-0.13086160716902176],[2017,-0.052188448348177936],[2018,-0.03293075449497749],[2019,0.08997045340980686],[2020,0.05230195473629978],[2021,0.08249111420182352],[2022,0.1016070810997752],[2023,-0.006087012555702609],[2024,0.28187906729656403],[2025,0.32531638187438033]]; median 0.06739653446906166. 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 NZD 45.5 million of shares.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:47:55.872Z); Dividend observations: [[2016,27024000],[2017,515000],[2018,10541000],[2019,10541000],[2020,41811000],[2021,10541000],[2022,20028000],[2023,15216000],[2024,11384000],[2025,52155000]]. Zero only counted when supported by a complete cash-flow statement.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:47:55.872Z); FY2025: cash repurchases 45548000 NZD.

### Are managers owners

Insiders own 16.5% of the company.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16); TWR.AU SharesStats.PercentInsiders = 16.524 percentage points; cache date 2026-10-16.

### What the price says

The price assumes profits grow 8.5% a year forever.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:47:55.872Z); Price 1.6825; FX 0.8124078517533463; original perpetual distributable cash 0.030619366043749107; discount 0.1; growth 0.08521520749500651. Same book-value model and 4× ceiling; no ten-year operating fade applies. Closing-price date 2026-10-15.

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

- 2016-11: AUD 0.57 per share

- 2016-12: AUD 0.68 per share

- 2017-01: AUD 0.67 per share

- 2017-02: AUD 1.05 per share

- 2017-03: AUD 0.96 per share

- 2017-04: AUD 0.94 per share

- 2017-05: AUD 0.91 per share

- 2017-06: AUD 1.06 per share

- 2017-07: AUD 0.75 per share

- 2017-08: AUD 0.70 per share

- 2017-09: AUD 0.66 per share

- 2017-10: AUD 0.63 per share

- 2017-11: AUD 0.67 per share

- 2017-12: AUD 0.64 per share

- 2018-01: AUD 0.64 per share

- 2018-02: AUD 0.67 per share

- 2018-03: AUD 0.81 per share

- 2018-04: AUD 0.81 per share

- 2018-05: AUD 0.73 per share

- 2018-06: AUD 0.77 per share

- 2018-07: AUD 0.69 per share

- 2018-08: AUD 0.72 per share

- 2018-09: AUD 0.75 per share

- 2018-10: AUD 0.74 per share

- 2018-11: AUD 0.75 per share

- 2018-12: AUD 0.73 per share

- 2019-01: AUD 0.75 per share

- 2019-02: AUD 0.72 per share

- 2019-03: AUD 0.71 per share

- 2019-04: AUD 0.78 per share

- 2019-05: AUD 0.78 per share

- 2019-06: AUD 0.77 per share

- 2019-07: AUD 0.74 per share

- 2019-08: AUD 0.73 per share

- 2019-09: AUD 0.71 per share

- 2019-10: AUD 0.68 per share

- 2019-11: AUD 0.80 per share

- 2019-12: AUD 0.76 per share

- 2020-01: AUD 0.74 per share

- 2020-02: AUD 0.72 per share

- 2020-03: AUD 0.60 per share

- 2020-04: AUD 0.63 per share

- 2020-05: AUD 0.64 per share

- 2020-06: AUD 0.62 per share

- 2020-07: AUD 0.61 per share

- 2020-08: AUD 0.57 per share

- 2020-09: AUD 0.61 per share

- 2020-10: AUD 0.59 per share

- 2020-11: AUD 0.64 per share

- 2020-12: AUD 0.76 per share

- 2021-01: AUD 0.72 per share

- 2021-02: AUD 0.78 per share

- 2021-03: AUD 0.79 per share

- 2021-04: AUD 0.91 per share

- 2021-05: AUD 0.76 per share

- 2021-06: AUD 0.76 per share

- 2021-07: AUD 0.72 per share

- 2021-08: AUD 0.74 per share

- 2021-09: AUD 0.71 per share

- 2021-10: AUD 0.69 per share

- 2021-11: AUD 0.74 per share

- 2021-12: AUD 0.77 per share

- 2022-01: AUD 0.71 per share

- 2022-02: AUD 0.71 per share

- 2022-03: AUD 0.72 per share

- 2022-04: AUD 0.71 per share

- 2022-05: AUD 0.67 per share

- 2022-06: AUD 0.66 per share

- 2022-07: AUD 0.64 per share

- 2022-08: AUD 0.59 per share

- 2022-09: AUD 0.58 per share

- 2022-10: AUD 0.63 per share

- 2022-11: AUD 0.72 per share

- 2022-12: AUD 0.76 per share

- 2023-01: AUD 0.68 per share

- 2023-02: AUD 0.61 per share

- 2023-03: AUD 0.68 per share

- 2023-04: AUD 0.64 per share

- 2023-05: AUD 0.63 per share

- 2023-06: AUD 0.64 per share

- 2023-07: AUD 0.63 per share

- 2023-08: AUD 0.63 per share

- 2023-09: AUD 0.64 per share

- 2023-10: AUD 0.65 per share

- 2023-11: AUD 0.62 per share

- 2023-12: AUD 0.63 per share

- 2024-01: AUD 0.64 per share

- 2024-02: AUD 0.74 per share

- 2024-03: AUD 0.70 per share

- 2024-04: AUD 0.84 per share

- 2024-05: AUD 0.85 per share

- 2024-06: AUD 0.90 per share

- 2024-07: AUD 1.12 per share

- 2024-08: AUD 1.12 per share

- 2024-09: AUD 1.36 per share

- 2024-10: AUD 1.36 per share

- 2024-11: AUD 1.34 per share

- 2024-12: AUD 1.34 per share

- 2025-01: AUD 1.28 per share

- 2025-02: AUD 1.41 per share

- 2025-03: AUD 1.35 per share

- 2025-04: AUD 1.26 per share

- 2025-05: AUD 1.41 per share

- 2025-06: AUD 1.49 per share

- 2025-07: AUD 1.57 per share

- 2025-08: AUD 1.52 per share

- 2025-09: AUD 1.52 per share

- 2025-10: AUD 1.58 per share

- 2025-11: AUD 1.70 per share

- 2025-12: AUD 1.77 per share

- 2026-01: AUD 1.67 per share

- 2026-02: AUD 1.56 per share

- 2026-03: AUD 1.56 per share

- 2026-04: AUD 1.64 per share

- 2026-05: AUD 1.55 per share

- 2026-06: AUD 1.53 per share

- 2026-07: AUD 1.54 per share

- 2026-08: AUD 1.54 per share

- 2026-09: AUD 1.62 per share

- 2026-10: AUD 1.65 per share

## Annual estimated value (AUD per share)

- FY2016: low AUD 0.61 per share, central AUD 0.76 per share, high AUD 1.01 per share

- FY2017: low AUD 0.25 per share, central AUD 0.30 per share, high AUD 0.38 per share

- FY2018: low AUD 0.13 per share, central AUD 0.15 per share, high AUD 0.17 per share

- FY2019: low AUD 0.12 per share, central AUD 0.14 per share, high AUD 0.16 per share

- FY2020: low AUD 0.08 per share, central AUD 0.09 per share, high AUD 0.10 per share

- FY2021: low AUD 0.08 per share, central AUD 0.09 per share, high AUD 0.10 per share

- FY2022: low AUD 0.09 per share, central AUD 0.10 per share, high AUD 0.11 per share

- FY2023: low AUD 0.08 per share, central AUD 0.09 per share, high AUD 0.10 per share

- FY2024: low AUD 0.07 per share, central AUD 0.08 per share, high AUD 0.09 per share

- FY2025: low AUD 0.33 per share, central AUD 0.37 per share, high AUD 0.43 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

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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Tower

TWR · AU

NZX 50

Not a wonderful business

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

Share price
AUD 1.68
Buy up to
AUD 0.33
Expected / yr
3.9% 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 6 years (at least 8 needed).

10y median
NZD 14M
Worst year
NZD -22M
Latest · 2025
NZD 84M

Earned a median 6.7% on tangible equity (minimum 12%).

10y median
6.7%
Worst year
-13.1%
Latest · 2025
32.5%

Book value plus dividends grew 5.5% a year (minimum 7%).

10y median
6.7%
Worst year
-33.9%
Latest · 2025
41.4%

Book value gained -0.1 per share against 0 kept (must cover the amount kept).

Filing signals · estimated likelihood
Founder / family4%Acquisition-led1%
Founder or family ownership or board role: 4% estimated likelihood. ; Acquisitions are the main growth strategy: 1% estimated likelihood.
per-share value change
Passing bar
≥ NZD 0

0 accounting warnings were found (none allowed).

accounting warnings
0
Passing bar
≤ 0

Profit record · fail 4 loss years in 10 (at most 2), three-year average earnings per share 0.16 NZD. 4 loss years in the last 10; at most 2 allowed.

2. Is the price low enough?

Price & return math
Value rangeAUD 0.29 – AUD 0.38
Buy at or belowCentral value AUD 0.33
Discount to value1 − 1.68 / 0.33 = -413.9%
Return / yearAbout 3.9% a year at today's price (required return 10.0%)
Cash-flow inputsBook AUD 0.61/share; ROE 6.5%; first payout AUD 0.02/share, growing 2.4% perpetually (4× book payout cap applied).
Required return10.0% / year, earned by construction at the central value
Net incomeNZD 84M
84M-22M20162025
FY2016 · Net income: NZD -22M; FY2017 · Net income: NZD -8.5M; FY2018 · Net income: NZD -6.8M; FY2019 · Net income: NZD 17M; FY2020 · Net income: NZD 12M; FY2021 · Net income: NZD 19M; FY2022 · Net income: NZD 19M; FY2023 · Net income: NZD -1.2M; FY2024 · Net income: NZD 74M; FY2025 · Net income: NZD 84M
Net income
Book / shareNZD 1.17
1.17020162025
FY2016 · Book / share: NZD 1.02; FY2017 · Book / share: NZD 0.67; FY2018 · Book / share: NZD 0.83; FY2019 · Book / share: NZD 0.83; FY2020 · Book / share: NZD 0.81; FY2021 · Book / share: NZD 0.82; FY2022 · Book / share: NZD 0.84; FY2023 · Book / share: NZD 0.79; FY2024 · Book / share: NZD 0.95; FY2025 · Book / share: NZD 1.17
Book / share
Dividend / shareNZD 0.17
1.00020162025
FY2016 · Dividend / share: NZD 0.12; FY2017 · Dividend / share: NZD 0.00; FY2018 · Dividend / share: NZD 0.03; FY2019 · Dividend / share: NZD 0.03; FY2020 · Dividend / share: NZD 0.10; FY2021 · Dividend / share: NZD 0.02; FY2022 · Dividend / share: NZD 0.05; FY2023 · Dividend / share: NZD 0.04; FY2024 · Dividend / share: NZD 0.03; FY2025 · Dividend / share: NZD 0.17
Dividend / share
Return on tangible equity32.5%
32.5%-13.1%20162025
FY2016 · Return on tangible equity: -13.1%; FY2017 · Return on tangible equity: -5.2%; FY2018 · Return on tangible equity: -3.3%; FY2019 · Return on tangible equity: 9.0%; FY2020 · Return on tangible equity: 5.2%; FY2021 · Return on tangible equity: 8.2%; FY2022 · Return on tangible equity: 10.2%; FY2023 · Return on tangible equity: -0.6%; FY2024 · Return on tangible equity: 28.2%; FY2025 · Return on tangible equity: 32.5%
Return on tangible equity
Diluted shares300M
422M020162025
FY2016 · Diluted shares: 219M; FY2017 · Diluted shares: 320M; FY2018 · Diluted shares: 328M; FY2019 · Diluted shares: 350M; FY2020 · Diluted shares: 422M; FY2021 · Diluted shares: 422M; FY2022 · Diluted shares: 379M; FY2023 · Diluted shares: 379M; FY2024 · Diluted shares: 379M; FY2025 · Diluted shares: 300M
Diluted shares
Prices 15 Oct 2026 · FY2025