FBD Holdings PLC (DUB:EG7)
€ 13.2 -0.1 (-0.75%) Market Cap: 535.99 Mil Enterprise Value: 450.06 Mil PE Ratio: 8.41 PB Ratio: 0.99 GF Score: 58/100

Half Year 2019 FBD Holdings PLC Earnings Call Transcript

Aug 01, 2019 / 08:00AM GMT
Release Date Price: €9.8 (+2.73%)
Fiona Muldoon
FBD Holdings plc - Group CEO & Executive Director

Good morning, everybody, and thank you very much for coming along to our 2019 interim results. As usual, John O'Grady, our Chief Financial Officer, and I will do a short presentation and then we'll be available for questions immediately after.

So if I could kick us off before I hand over to John, with a short overview of the key highlights. It's a very strong half year profit at EUR 38.7 million before tax. This is a strong underlying underwriting profitability, a very benign, exceptionally benign winter and there was no storm. Storm Emma is in the year ago results, but also very little by way of attritional weather as well. And a strong one-off, we believe, investment return as the markets rally. John will take you through that in more detail later.

So the underlying combined ratio, as I said, is a very healthy 82.5%. The current year combined ratio is 87.8%. So there is some EUR 8 million in prior year positive reserve development in the number. Our net asset value is up about 10%. This was 818c at 31/12 and it is

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