Axis Capital Holdings Ltd
Axis Capital Holdings Ltd (AXS) is listed on NYSE and classified in Insurance - Specialty, part of the Financial Services sector. It is headquartered in Pembroke, Bermuda and has 1,966 employees. The company is worth $7.61B and trades at 7.4x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 13.2x. Revenue was $6.56B in fiscal 2025, up 10.2% from the year before. Net income was $1.01B. The share price is 13.1% below its 52-week high of $119.99. It pays a dividend yielding 1.69%. 7 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $454.37M. In that quarter, 4 of them opened or added to the position and 3 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +100.5% over 5Y.
today you would have $2,151.69▲ +115.2%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 18 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $107.09 | $88.62 | $55.37 | $54.17 | $54.47 | $50.39 | $59.44 | $51.64 | $50.26 | $65.27 | $56.22 | $51.09 | $47.57 | $34.64 | $31.96 | $35.88 | $28.41 | $29.12 |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 15.7% a year plus a 1.7% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 13.2 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 9.0 across this company’s own years on record.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Financial Services, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VLYValley National Bancorp | $13.81 | 11.7x | 1.0x | 3.19% | 8.95% | $7.63B |
| BOKFBok Financial Corp | $129.09 | 11.7x | 1.3x | 1.95% | 10.86% | $7.84B |
| LNCLincoln National Corp | $41.11 | 3.4x | 0.8x | 4.38% | 22.59% | $7.87B |
| HUTHut 8 Corp. | $63.97 |
| P/E | 9.0x | 8.7x | 7.2x | 13.8x | 24.1x | 7.9x | — | 17.8x | — | — | 12.8x | 9.3x | 7.0x | 8.0x | 8.7x | 456.6x | 6.0x | 9.3x | 12.9x |
| P/S | 1.1x | 1.2x | 1.2x | 0.8x | 0.9x | 0.9x | 0.9x | 1.0x | 0.8x | 0.9x | 1.4x | 1.3x | 1.2x | 1.3x | 1.1x | 1.1x | 1.2x | 1.3x | 1.6x |
| P/B | 0.9x | 1.2x | 1.2x | 0.9x | 1.0x | 0.9x | 0.8x | 0.9x | 0.9x | 0.8x | 0.9x | 0.9x | 0.9x | 0.9x | 0.7x | 0.8x | 0.7x | 0.7x | 1.0x |
| EPS | $12.35 | $12.35 | $4.02 | $2.25 | $6.90 | -$1.79 | $3.34 | $0.00 | -$4.94 | $5.08 | $6.04 | $7.29 | $5.93 | $4.00 | $0.07 | $6.02 | $3.07 | $2.26 |
| Dividend yield | 2.75% | 0.82% | 1.99% | 3.18% | 3.19% | 3.10% | 3.27% | 2.71% | 3.04% | 3.04% | 2.19% | 2.17% | 2.15% | 2.14% | 2.80% | 2.91% | 2.40% | 2.85% | 2.59% |
| Payout | 24.49% | 7.13% | 14.25% | 43.78% | 76.89% | 24.49% | — | 48.20% | — | — | 28.15% | 20.20% | 15.09% | 17.20% | 24.25% | 1328.57% | 14.29% | 26.38% | 33.41% |
| Profit margin | 13.30% | 15.37% | 18.16% | 6.67% | 4.34% | 11.62% | -2.49% | 6.25% | 0.85% | -8.04% | 12.82% | 15.53% | 18.65% | 17.34% | 13.94% | 1.22% | 24.12% | 17.69% | 13.78% |
| ROE | 8.87% | 15.87% | 17.77% | 7.15% | 4.81% | 11.43% | -2.27% | 5.83% | 0.86% | -6.91% | 8.18% | 10.94% | 13.93% | 12.50% | 9.47% | 0.85% | 15.23% | 9.05% | 8.68% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
Dividend growing 5.5% a year against a 7.0% required return, from the stock’s beta.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
5 methods answered, across 2 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
+15.4% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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| 5.5x |
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| $7.88B |
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