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EG · Q1 2026

EG · Q2 2026 Earnings

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Everest Group

Reported July 29, 2026

30-second summary

SENTIMENT: Mixed Everest printed a 90.0% core-business combined ratio (+300bps YoY), 14.9% operating ROE, and $14.85 non-GAAP EPS on $3.49B of revenue (-12.6% YoY as the AIG retail exit continues to run off). Underlying margin gave ground: core attritional CR was 87.3% (+170bps YoY) and group CR was 92.0% (+160bps YoY), driven by $85M of catastrophe losses in Core (vs. -$4M last year) and higher expense ratios. The disciplined-shrink thesis is still in motion — Legacy NPE fell 40% and Legacy GWP collapsed 88% on a comparable basis — but the "core underwriting is clean" narrative needs qualification this quarter. The meaningful positive: $395M of Q2 buybacks, well above the $300M quarterly floor, directly answering last quarter's watch-list item.

Headline numbers

EPS

Q2 FY2026

$14.85

+2.2% vs est.

Revenue

Q2 FY2026

$3.49B

-12.6% YoY

+1.5% vs est.

Key financials

Q2 FY2026
MetricQ2 FY2026Q2 FY2025YoYQ1 FY2026QoQ
Revenue$3.49B$4.49B-22.3%$3.60B-3.1%
EPS$14.85$17.36-14.5%$16.08-7.6%

Guidance

Company provides first explicit quarterly growth guidance (Q3 FY2026: 13-16% YoY revenue growth), signaling a shift toward more normalized operations after the AIG transaction.

Guidance is issued for the full year only, refreshed each quarter. Prior and new below are the same FY updated this quarter.

New guidance

MetricPeriodGuideYoY
RevenueQ3 FY202613-16% YoY growth13-16% YoY

Segment performance

Q2 FY2026
SegmentQ2 FY2026Q2 FY2025YoY
Reinsurance Treaty$2.459B—-9.8%
Global Wholesale & Specialty$0.709B—-2.6%
Legacy$0.323B—-40.0%

Capital & returns

Q2 FY2026
SegmentQ2 FY2026Q2 FY2025YoY
Total Shareholder Return (Annualized)16.8%——

Other KPIs

Q2 FY2026
SegmentQ2 FY2026Q2 FY2025YoY
Combined Ratio - Core Businesses90.0%——
Attritional Combined Ratio - Core Businesses87.3%——
Net Operating Income ROE (Annualized)14.9%——
Net Income ROE (Annualized)14.2%——
Gross Written Premium - Core Businesses$3.7 billion——
Underwriting Income$317 million$385 million—
Book Value Per Share (excluding URA(D))$407.67——

Management tone

Narrative arc: Q3 FY2025 "bottom-quartile underwriter exiting retail" → Q4 FY2025 "stock is mispriced, we'll buy it back while we finish the cleanup" → Q1 FY2026 "profitability over volume, buyback floor raised to $300M" → Q2 FY2026 "core-business framing formalized; buyback pace stepped up materially."

A transcript for the Q2 FY2026 call was not available at the time of this brief; the tone read below is anchored on press-release language and disclosure changes.

Disclosure structure has been formalized around "Core businesses" as the durable earnings frame. The headline KPIs are explicitly labeled "Core businesses" — 90.0% CR, 87.3% attritional CR, 14.9% operating ROE, $3.7B GWP — while Group CR (92.0%) is reported alongside. Management is asking investors to underwrite the Core; the Legacy segment is presented as a discrete runoff being wound down.

Buyback pace stepped up decisively. $395M of Q2 repurchases (vs. $200M PY quarter, vs. the $300M floor set in Q1) is the loudest capital-allocation signal in the release. Combined with the reiterated "share repurchases remain a top priority" language, capital return is running ahead of the stated floor, not at it.

Core underwriting margin gave ground YoY. The 300bps YoY deterioration in Core CR and 170bps in Core attritional CR — driven by cat losses and expense ratio drift — is not a thesis-breaker (management flagged non-cat weather in Reinsurance Treaty as a swing factor and Global W&S showed underlying attritional improvement), but it does temper the "core is clean" framing from prior quarters. Watch whether the Q3 print stabilizes core attritional CR back toward the mid-80s.

Answers to last quarter's watch list

Global Wholesale & Specialty attritional CR trajectory — Resolved favorably. Attritional CR improved 110bps to 93.8%; attritional loss ratio improved 390bps to 60.6%. GWP essentially flat on a comparable basis (-1.0%) while margins expanded — the mix-discipline thesis is validated this quarter. Status: Resolved
Pace of buybacks against the raised floor — Resolved favorably. Q2 buybacks of $395M cleared the $300M floor by ~$95M and nearly doubled the PY quarter's $200M. YTD repurchases $725M. Status: Resolved
Mid-year (6/1) Florida renewal pricing — Not directly addressed in the press release; management cited "meaningful outperformance on rate and terms versus the market" at mid-year renewals in general terms. Status: Not resolved (specifics pending transcript)
Legacy segment revenue tracking toward zero — Legacy GWP was $94M (-88.0% comparable), effectively a stub reflecting limited renewed/new policies on Everest paper post-closing. NPE of $323M (-40%) reflects the earn-down of prior-period unearned premium. GWP trajectory confirms the runoff is well advanced; NPE will continue to bleed off. Status: Tracking as expected
AIG-related capital release quantification — No specific dollar figure disclosed; the "back half of 2026" language from prior quarters remains the anchor.
Continue monitoring
Reinsurance Treaty attritional CR sustainability — Attritional CR 85.4%, +220bps YoY. Segment reports that ex-elevated non-cat weather losses, attritional CR would have been 82.7%. Underlying quality is intact but the reported print rose. Status: Watch — one more quarter needed

What to watch into next quarter

Core attritional CR direction — The 170bps YoY step-up in Q2 is the metric to watch; a stabilization or improvement in Q3 preserves the durable-margin thesis, while another leg higher would reopen questions about pricing/mix in Reinsurance Treaty.

Reinsurance Treaty non-cat weather — Management explicitly flagged elevated non-cat weather as a 270bps drag on segment attritional CR; whether this normalizes in Q3 will indicate if the 82.7% ex-weather figure is the right underwriting baseline.

Global Wholesale & Specialty margin trajectory — The 110bps attritional CR improvement on flat GWP is the cleanest positive in the quarter; sustaining that in Q3 validates the specialty/international mix strategy.

Buyback pace — With $395M in Q2 and $725M YTD, watch whether H2 sustains the above-floor cadence, particularly if AIG-related capital release begins to materialize.

First quantified capital release dollar figure — H2 2026 remains the anchor for AIG-related capital release; Q3 is the quarter where management should either quantify or forfeit the timing narrative.

Legacy underwriting loss — Q2 loss of ($36M) narrowed from PY; watch whether Q3 continues to compress toward zero as the earned-premium base shrinks.

Sources

  1. Everest Group Q2 FY2026 Earnings Release — SEC filing, July 29, 2026: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1095073/000109507326000029/everest2q26earningsrelease.htm
  2. Everest Group Q1 FY2026 tapebrief (prior-quarter context and watch list).
  3. Everest Group Q4 FY2025 tapebrief (guidance cadence and buyback floor context).

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