Losses for insurance sector

Lately most stocks of the insurance sector are under selling pressure. Over the past 3 months the sector is 3 percent lower. Investors who bought the average share of the sector in 2000 now have a very huge profit of around 380 percent. Since 2012 the sector trades 179 percent higher. On average the sector pays investors a moderate dividend yield of 1 percent.

Returns insurance sector

In terms of their price/earnings ratios the European insurers are cheaper than the US ones. Per European share investors pay now less the for the expected earnings per share. So it seems the markets expect less growth of them. The whole sector trades now on a quite huge CAPE-ratio of 32. Shares with the higher CAPE-ratios are ProLogis , Kingstone Companies Inc and Nmi Holdings Inc. Aflac , Aegon are Munchener Rue among the ones with the lower CAPE-ratios.

Further we see that the European insurance sector has a CAPE of 4 and the US sector of . ,

Winners and losers insurance sector

The EU stocks in this sector are around 4 percent higher and the US's are percent higher.

The European insurers now deliver more dividends then the US ones. These in Europe now yield 1,85 percent and these in US 0,3 percent. 0, 0 and 0 have now the highest dividend returns (in case the dividends per share are unchanged).

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