Saturday, February 23, 2013

US Big Insurance Corps 4Q 2012 Earnings Decline 27%

I found 15 US Insurance Corps, other than Health Insurance Corps which I covered in an earlier post, filing with the SEC, which have already released their 4Q 2012 earnings and which also generated Adjusted After-tax Operating Net Income or Net Loss of more than $200 mil in either the 4Q 2012 or in the 4Q 2011.

These 15 US Insurance Corps generated Total Adjusted After-tax Operating Net Income of $6,257 mil in the 4Q 2012, down 27% from the 4Q 2011.  Storm Sandy was the main driver of this substantial earnings decline.   

Below is the Ongoing, Adjusted After-tax Operating Net Income of these 15 US Insurance Corps for both the 4Q 2012 and the 4Q 2011.


4Q 2012 4Q 2011


Non-GAAP Non-GAAP

Operating Operating Increase Increase
Net Net (Decrease) (Decrease)
Company Income Income Amount %

mils of $s mils of $s mils of $s





Property Casualty Insurance



ACE Ltd 492 648 (156) -24%
Allstate 289 735 (446) -61%
Travelers 278 609 (331) -54%
Hartford Financial Services 265 301 (36) -12%
Progressive (Net Income) 249 257 (8) -3%
Chubb 44 460 (416) -90%





Life Insurance



MetLife 1,373 1,244 129 10%
Prudential Financial 798 855 (57) -7%
Lincoln National 310 277 33 12%





Accident and Health Insurance



AFLAC 697 684 13 2%
Principal Financial 244 202 42 21%
Unum Group 225 228 (3) -1%





Insurance Conglomerate



AIG 290 1,471 (1,181) -80%





Insurance Agent/Brokers



Aon 416 393 23 6%
Marsh & McLennan 287 255 32 13%





Total all 15 6,257 8,619 (2,362) -27%