Essent Group Ltd. 8K

Essent Group Ltd. reported strong but slightly lower 2025 earnings, increased its quarterly dividend to $0.35 per share, expanded reinsurance activities (including a new Lloyd’s-based segment), and returned substantial capital via share repurchases.

Essent Group Ltd. reported its fourth quarter and full year 2025 financial results, showing quarterly net income of $155.0 million ($1.60 per diluted share) and full year net income of $690.0 million ($6.90 per diluted share), slightly below 2024 levels, and announced that its Board of Directors increased the quarterly cash dividend to $0.35 per common share payable March 23, 2026 to shareholders of record on March 13, 2026. The company highlighted stable mortgage insurance production and insurance in force, continued strong capitalization, and significant capital returns to shareholders in 2025 totaling nearly $700 million through dividends and repurchases, including the repurchase of 9.9 million shares for $576 million, while also noting new quota share reinsurance agreements (including 20% coverage of eligible 2027 mortgage insurance policies and property and casualty quota share backed by Funds at Lloyd’s) and the creation of a separate Reinsurance reporting segment as Essent Re enters the Lloyd’s of London market beginning in the first quarter of 2026.

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1448893

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8K

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0001448893-26-000003

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