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HCC Insurance Holdings (FRA:HCZ) Return-on-Tangible-Equity : 10.62% (As of Jun. 2015)


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What is HCC Insurance Holdings Return-on-Tangible-Equity?

Return-on-Tangible-Equity is calculated as Net Income divided by its average total shareholder tangible equity. Total shareholder tangible equity equals to Total Stockholders Equity minus Intangible Assets. HCC Insurance Holdings's annualized net income for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 was €287 Mil. HCC Insurance Holdings's average shareholder tangible equity for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 was €2,699 Mil. Therefore, HCC Insurance Holdings's annualized Return-on-Tangible-Equity for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 was 10.62%.

The historical rank and industry rank for HCC Insurance Holdings's Return-on-Tangible-Equity or its related term are showing as below:

FRA:HCZ' s Return-on-Tangible-Equity Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 10.47   Med: 15.67   Max: 27.86
Current: 14.84

During the past 13 years, HCC Insurance Holdings's highest Return-on-Tangible-Equity was 27.86%. The lowest was 10.47%. And the median was 15.67%.

FRA:HCZ's Return-on-Tangible-Equity is not ranked
in the Insurance industry.
Industry Median: 11.925 vs FRA:HCZ: 14.84

HCC Insurance Holdings Return-on-Tangible-Equity Historical Data

The historical data trend for HCC Insurance Holdings's Return-on-Tangible-Equity 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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HCC Insurance Holdings Return-on-Tangible-Equity Chart

HCC Insurance Holdings Annual Data
Trend Dec05 Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14
Return-on-Tangible-Equity
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HCC Insurance Holdings Quarterly Data
Sep10 Dec10 Mar11 Jun11 Sep11 Dec11 Mar12 Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15
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Competitive Comparison of HCC Insurance Holdings's Return-on-Tangible-Equity

For the Insurance - Property & Casualty subindustry, HCC Insurance Holdings's Return-on-Tangible-Equity, along with its competitors' market caps and Return-on-Tangible-Equity 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.


HCC Insurance Holdings's Return-on-Tangible-Equity Distribution in the Insurance Industry

For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, HCC Insurance Holdings's Return-on-Tangible-Equity distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where HCC Insurance Holdings's Return-on-Tangible-Equity falls into.



HCC Insurance Holdings Return-on-Tangible-Equity Calculation

HCC Insurance Holdings's annualized Return-on-Tangible-Equity for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2014 is calculated as

Return-on-Tangible-Equity=Net Income/( (Total Tangible Equity+Total Tangible Equity)/ count )
(A: Dec. 2014 )  (A: Dec. 2013 )(A: Dec. 2014 )
=Net Income/( (Total Stockholders Equity - Intangible Assets+Total Stockholders Equity - Intangible Assets )/ count )
(A: Dec. 2014 )  (A: Dec. 2013 )(A: Dec. 2014 )
=371.716/( (2028.838+2431.147 )/ 2 )
=371.716/2229.9925
=16.67 %

HCC Insurance Holdings's annualized Return-on-Tangible-Equity for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 is calculated as

Return-on-Tangible-Equity=Net Income/( (Total Tangible Equity+Total Tangible Equity)/ count )
(Q: Jun. 2015 )  (Q: Mar. 2015 )(Q: Jun. 2015 )
=Net Income/( (Total Stockholders Equity - Intangible Assets+Total Stockholders Equity - Intangible Assets)/ count )
(Q: Jun. 2015 )  (Q: Mar. 2015 )(Q: Jun. 2015 )
=286.608/( (2757.287+2640.917)/ 2 )
=286.608/2699.102
=10.62 %

* 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.

In the calculation of annual Return-on-Tangible-Equity, the net income of the last fiscal year and the average total shareholder tangible equity over the fiscal year are used. In calculating the quarterly data, the net income data used here is four times the quarterly (Jun. 2015) net income data. Return-on-Tangible-Equity is displayed in the 10-year financial page.


HCC Insurance Holdings  (FRA:HCZ) Return-on-Tangible-Equity Explanation

Return-on-Tangible-Equity measures the rate of return on the ownership interest (shareholder's tangible equity) of the common stock owners. It measures a firm's efficiency at generating profits from every unit of shareholders' tangible equity (shareholders equity minus intangibles). Return-on-Tangible-Equity shows how well a company uses investment funds to generate earnings growth. Return-on-Tangible-Equitys between 15% and 20% are considered desirable.


Be Aware

Net Income is used.

Because a company can increase its Return-on-Tangible-Equity by having more financial leverage, it is important to watch the leverage ratio when investing in high Return-on-Tangible-Equity companies. Like Return-on-Tangible-Asset, Return-on-Tangible-Equity is calculated with only 12 months data. Fluctuations in company's earnings or business cycles can affect the ratio drastically. It is important to look at the ratio from a long term perspective.

Asset light businesses require very few assets to generate very high earnings. Their Return-on-Tangible-Equitys can be extremely high.


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HCC Insurance Holdings (FRA:HCZ) Business Description

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HCC Insurance Holdings Inc was incorporated in the state of Delaware in 1991. The Company provides specialized property and casualty, surety, and group life, accident and health insurance coverages and related agency and reinsurance brokerage services to commercial customers and individuals. It concentrates its activities in selected, narrowly defined, specialty lines of business. The Company has five underwriting segments: U.S. Property & Casualty, Professional Liability, Accident & Health, U.S. Surety & Credit and International. U.S. Property & Casualty segment includes specialty lines of insurance such as aviation, small account errors and omissions liability (E&O), public risk, contingency, disability, title and mortgage reinsurance, residual value, employment practices liability (EPLI), technical property, primary and excess casualty, and brown water marine written in the U.S. The majority of the business is primary coverage, and claims are reported and settled on a short to medium-term basis. Professional Liability segment primarily consists of its directors' and officers' (D&O) liability business. In addition, it write related professional liability and crime business coverages, including large account E&O liability, fiduciary liability, fidelity and bankers blanket bonds, and EPLI for some D&O policyholders. Accident & Health segment includes medical stop-loss, short-term domestic and international medical products, written in the United States. The majority of the business covers groups of employees, and claims are reported and settled quickly. U.S. Surety & Credit segment conducts business through separate specialty surety underwriting operations and credit underwriting operations. International segment includes energy, property treaty, liability, surety, credit, property (direct and facultative), ocean marine, accident and health and other smaller product lines written from operations in the United Kingdom, Spain and Ireland. The Company operates mainly in the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain and Ireland. Some of its operations have a broader international scope. The Company markets its products both directly to customers and through a network of independent and affiliated brokers, producers, agents and third party administrators. Its insurance companies are risk-bearing and focus their underwriting activities on providing insurance and/or reinsurance in the following lines of business: Diversified financial products; Group life, accident and health; Aviation; London market account and other specialty lines. The Company's underwriting agencies underwrite on behalf of its insurance companies and in certain situations for other unaffiliated insurance companies. The agencies specialize in the following types of business: contingency; directors' and officers' liability; individual disability; kidnap and ransom; employment practices liability; errors and omissions liability; public entity; various financial products

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