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BOW (Bowhead Specialty Holdings) Book Value per Share : $11.98 (As of Mar. 2025)


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What is Bowhead Specialty Holdings Book Value per Share?

Bowhead Specialty Holdings's book value per share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was $11.98.

During the past 12 months, Bowhead Specialty Holdings's average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 87.70% per year. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the book value growth rate using book value per share data.

Bowhead Specialty Holdings's current price is $33.25. Its book value per share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was $11.98. Hence, today's PB Ratio of Bowhead Specialty Holdings is 2.77.

During the past 3 years, the highest P/B Ratio of Bowhead Specialty Holdings was 4.20. The lowest was 2.38. And the median was 2.99.

Good Sign:

Bowhead Specialty Holdings Inc stock PB Ratio (=2.77) is close to 1-year low of 2.5.


Bowhead Specialty Holdings Book Value per Share Historical Data

The historical data trend for Bowhead Specialty Holdings's Book Value per Share can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Bowhead Specialty Holdings Book Value per Share Chart

Bowhead Specialty Holdings Annual Data
Trend Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Book Value per Share
2.64 6.09 11.34

Bowhead Specialty Holdings Quarterly Data
Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24 Mar25
Book Value per Share Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 6.38 10.41 11.17 11.34 11.98

Competitive Comparison of Bowhead Specialty Holdings's Book Value per Share

For the Insurance - Property & Casualty subindustry, Bowhead Specialty Holdings's PB Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and PB Ratio data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Bowhead Specialty Holdings's PB Ratio Distribution in the Insurance Industry

For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, Bowhead Specialty Holdings's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Bowhead Specialty Holdings's PB Ratio falls into.


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Bowhead Specialty Holdings Book Value per Share Calculation

Bowhead Specialty Holdings's Book Value Per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2024 is calculated as:

Book Value Per Share=(Total Stockholders Equity-Preferred Stock)/Shares Outstanding (EOP)
=(370.4-0.0)/32.7
=11.34

Bowhead Specialty Holdings's Book Value Per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 is calculated as:

Book Value Per Share=(Total Stockholders Equity-Preferred Stock)/Shares Outstanding (EOP)
=(391.4-0.0)/32.7
=11.98

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

Theoretically it is what the shareholders will receive if the company is liquidated. Total Stockholders Equity is a balance sheet item and equal to Total Assets less Total Liabilities of the company.

Book value may include intangible items which may come from the company's past acquisitions. Book value less intangibles is called Tangible Book.


Bowhead Specialty Holdings  (NYSE:BOW) Book Value per Share Explanation

Usually a company's book value and Tangible Book per Share may not reflect its true value. The assets may be carried on the balance sheets at the original cost minus depreciation. This may underestimate the true economic values of the assets. It also may over-estimate their true economic value because the assets can become obsolete.

For financial companies such as banks and insurance companies, their assets may be reported in current market value of the assets owned. Book values of financial companies are more accurate indicator of the economic value of the company.


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Bowhead Specialty Holdings Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
452 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, USA, 10018
Bowhead Specialty Holdings Inc offers commercial specialty property and casualty insurance products. The company offers underwriting solutions to various businesses across four underwriting divisions, which include Casualty, Professional Liability, Healthcare Liability, and Baleen Specialty. A majority of its revenue is generated from the Casualty division which specializes in general liability coverage, which protects a company against liability arising from bodily injury, personal injury or property damage, for risks in the construction, distribution, heavy manufacturing, real estate, public entity and hospitality segments and also considers underwriting risks in a broader range of industries. Geographically, the company operates in the United States.