W. R. Berkley Corporation

WRB · NYSE · Stock · Financial Services
$73.55
+0.00% today
Delayed price,

What W. R. Berkley does

W. R. Berkley Corporation, an insurance holding company, operates as a commercial line writer worldwide. The company operates through Insurance and Reinsurance & Monoline Excess segments. The Insurance segment underwrites commercial insurance business, including excess and surplus lines, admitted lines, and specialty personal lines. This segment also provides accident and health insurance and reinsurance products; insurance for commercial risks; casualty and specialty environmental products; insurance coverages for fine arts and jewelry exposures; excess liability and inland marine coverage for small to medium-sized insureds; and commercial general liability, umbrella, professional liability, directors and officers, commercial property, and surety products, as well as products for technology, and life sciences and travel industries. In addition, it offers cyber risk solutions; crime and fidelity insurance products; medical professional coverages; workers' compensation insurance products; management liability and general insurance products; personal lines insurance solutions, including home, condo/co-op, auto, fine arts and collectibles, liability, collector vehicle, and recreational marine; law enforcement, public officials and educator's legal, and employment practices liability, as well as incidental medical, property, and crime insurance products; at-risk and alternative risk insurance program management services; professional liability; energy and marine risks; and insurance products to the Lloyd's marketplace. The Reinsurance & Monoline Excess segment provides treaty and facultative reinsurance solutions; property and casualty reinsurance products; facultative reinsurance products include automatic, semi-automatic, and individual risk assumed reinsurance; and turnkey products, such as cyber, employment practices liability insurance, liquor liability insurance and violent events. The company was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Key facts

Sector
Financial Services
Industry
Insurance - Property & Casualty
Market cap
$27.30B
P/E (ttm)
15.1
Forward P/E
15.0
Dividend yield
0.54%
Beta
0.27
Profit margin
12.9%
Employees
8,804
Headquarters
Greenwich, CT, United States
Exchange
NYSE

Performance

1 Month
+5.1%
3 Months
+2.7%
6 Months
+10.1%
1 Year
-0.7%
5 Years
+115.9%
$62.8752-week range$78.96
Biggest setback — last 12 months
-18.6%
17 Nov 2025 → 25 May 2026
Fell from $78.10 to $63.54 — its sharpest sustained decline this year.
Biggest run-up — last 12 months
+18.8%
25 May 2026 → 20 Jul 2026
Ran from $63.54 to $75.46 — its strongest sustained advance this year.

Price outlook — trend & volatility model

● Trend: Above long-term trend
Price sits above its 200-day average, but the shorter-term averages are not cleanly aligned above/below it.
HorizonBear case (−1σ)Base caseBull case (+1σ)
1 Month$69.29 (-5.8%)$73.55$78.07 (+6.1%)
3 Months$66.33 (-9.8%)$73.55$81.56 (+10.9%)
6 Months$63.55 (-13.6%)$73.55$85.12 (+15.7%)
12 Months$59.82 (-18.7%)$73.55$90.43 (+23.0%)
Statistical, not machine-learning: a random-walk (no assumed drift) volatility model built from this ticker's own realized price history, plus a purely descriptive moving-average trend read. Illustrative only — not a price target and not financial advice. The bear and bull cases sit one standard deviation (1σ) below and above today's price, a range that covers about 68% of the outcomes the model treats as plausible, not a 68% chance of either case. Annualized volatility used: 20.7%, blended from this ticker's own 3-month and 1-year realized price history. Base case is deliberately flat — this quantifies a possible range, not a directional prediction. See the full model, including wider (≈95%) bands →

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Recent insider activity

Sold 14,678 shares at $72.29 — Welt Philip S, EVP & Secretary · 2026-08-05
Sold 14,736 shares at $72.29 — Baio Richard Mark, EVP & CFO · 2026-08-05
Sold 102,732 shares at $72.29 — BERKLEY WILLIAM R JR, Chairman, President and CEO · 2026-08-05
Sold 14,736 shares at $72.29 — SHIEL JAMES G, EVP - Investments · 2026-08-05
Acquired 3,090 shares — BERKLEY WILLIAM R, Executive Chairman · 2026-06-04
Source: SEC Form 4 filings. An "acquired" entry with no price is typically a stock award or option exercise rather than an open-market purchase. Search all insider trades →

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