Talanx AG TLX

Morningstar Rating
€117.40 +1.10 (0.95%)
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Company Report

While Talanx Offers Better Cost Dynamics the Firm Lacks Pure Underwriting Competitiveness

At its core, Talanx is a business with a lower-cost position. This stems from its location in Hannover, Germany, which is a much more inexpensive place to live. That lower expense base has come at a price, and this has historically been visible in claims. Talanx has taken a number of actions to improve underwriting. Actions include, but are not limited to, investment in a new piece of proprietary technology that they have called the Underwriting Workbench, which helps underwriters run their insurance portfolios profitably. Here, individual underwriters are facilitated to meet their key performance indicators, meaning the same for the industrial lines.

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Price
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Bulls Say, Bears Say

Bulls

Talanx is targeting improvements in underwriting through risk management, IoTs, and partnerships.

Bears

While Talanx has made substantial investments in cleaning up its investment portfolio and directly invested in sustainable projects, these have become harder to come by as they are increasingly sought after.

Trading Information

Previous Close Price
€116.30
Day Range
€115.50–117.90
52-Week Range
€97.65–128.80
Bid/Ask
€0.00 / €0.00
Shares Outstanding
258.23M
Market Cap
€30.32B
Volume/Avg
126,645 / 141,573

Key Statistics

Price/Earnings (Normalized)
12.43
Price/Sales
0.57
Dividend Yield (Trailing)
3.07%
Dividend Yield (Forward)
3.07%
Dividend Payment Schedule
May
Total Yield
3.07%

Company Profile

Talanx is the third-largest insurer in Germany. It sells insurance to businesses, individuals, and reinsures other insurers. The origins of Talanx go back to the early 1900s and the founding of two mutuals in Germany, HDI and FSV, that were set up to provide liability insurance to the German iron and steel industry and fire insurance to the German mining industry as a result of a growing dissatisfaction with insurance providers. These two mutuals merged to form Halfplichtverband der Deutschen Industrie, or HDI, in 1970. And over the years, companies outside of metals and mining have joined the mutual. HDI started providing reinsurance services in the mid-1920s and individual insurance in the 1950s. HDI owns just over three-quarters of the Talanx share capital.
Sector
Financial Services
Industry
Insurance - Diversified
Stock Style Box
Large Value
Total Number of Employees
29,408

Competitors

Valuation

Metric
TLX
ZURN
ALV
Price/Earnings (Normalized)
12.4312.4513.06
Price/Book Value
2.083.332.49
Price/Sales
0.570.991.01
Price/Cash Flow
10.41—15.47
Price/Earnings
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ZURN
ALV

Financial Strength

Metric
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ZURN
ALV
Quick Ratio
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Current Ratio
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Interest Coverage
21.2422.36—
Quick Ratio
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Profitability

Metric
TLX
ZURN
ALV
Return on Assets (Normalized)
2.29%1.88%1.18%
Return on Equity (Normalized)
31.19%27.18%19.64%
Return on Invested Capital (Normalized)
16.57%17.19%14.03%
Return on Assets
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ZURN
ALV

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