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The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. (THG) is a U.S.-based insurer offering a wide array of property and casualty coverage through its various ...
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$3.75 per share
Est. EPS $4.39 · Revenue $1.81B · 5 analysts
Est. EPS $5.41 · Revenue $1.56B · 5 analysts
Est. EPS $20.29 · Revenue $6.65B · 5 analysts
$3.75 per share
| Metric | Latest | YoYYoY means Year-over-Year. It compares the latest annual value with the previous annual value to show long-term trend strength. | QoQQoQ means Quarter-over-Quarter. It compares the latest quarter with the immediately previous quarter to show short-term momentum changes. |
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| RevenueThe total money that came through the front door from selling things, before paying a single bill. Think of it as the grand total of every credit card swipe from customers. (YoY compares this year to last year's performance, while QoQ compares the current three months to the previous three). | $6.6B | +6.1% | +1.5% |
| Net IncomeThe absolute bottom line. If the company paid every single supplier, employee, banker, and tax collector, this is the actual money left in their pocket at the end of the day. | $662.5M | +55.5% | +2.6% |
| Gross MarginThe basic markup. If they sell a $100 pair of sneakers, this percentage tells you how much of that price tag is profit right after paying for the rubber and shoelaces, but before paying for things like store rent or TV commercials. | +43.5% | +118.4% | +1.2% |
| Operating MarginThe 'day job' efficiency score. Out of every dollar a customer spends, this shows how many cents the company keeps after making the product AND paying for all the everyday corporate overhead (like salaries, marketing, and keeping the lights on). | +12.8% | +47.8% | +1.7% |
| Net MarginThe final take-home percentage. When you strip away every conceivable cost, tax, and interest payment, this is the exact number of cents the company truly gets to keep from every dollar in sales. | +10.0% | +46.5% | +1.1% |
| Free Cash FlowThe holy grail of corporate cash. It's the spendable, physical money left over after the business pays for its daily operations AND buys the big, expensive upgrades (like new factories or servers) it needs to survive. This is the 'free' money they can use to pay dividends or buy back stock. | $1.2B | +47.0% | +81.6% |
| FCF MarginThe ultimate cash conversion rate. It shows how good the company is at turning regular sales directly into cold, hard, spendable cash. A high percentage means the business is an absolute cash-printing machine. | +17.7% | +38.5% | +79.0% |
| Debt / EquityThe financial risk gauge. It compares how much of the company's empire was built using borrowed money (loans) versus the owners' own money (shareholders). A high number means they are heavily leveraged and playing a riskier game; a low number means they are playing it safe. | 34.1% | +23.6% | -2.8% |
| Current RatioThe 12-month survival check. It simply compares the cash they have right now (plus things they can quickly turn into cash) against the immediate bills they absolutely must pay this year. A score above 1 means they have enough in the wallet to cover the upcoming bills without panicking. | 0.62x | -91.4% | +192.4% |
| Total AssetsThe absolute size of the company's empire. It bundles together absolutely everything of value they own—from the cash in the register and the inventory in the warehouse, to the software patents in the vault and the factories on the ground. | $16.9B | +10.9% | +2.0% |
| Metric | Annual (A vs E) | Annual Surprise | Quarter (A vs E) | Quarter Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EPS Surprise | 18.51 vs 18.37 | +0.8% | 5.28 vs 4.39 | +20.3% |
| Revenue Surprise | $6.6B vs $6.4B | +3.0% | $1.7B vs $1.8B | -4.7% |
| Date | Executive | Title | Security | Side | Shares | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 2026 | Kerrigan Dennis Francis | officer: Executive Vice President | Common Stock | A | 2,104 | $118.54 |
| Aug 20, 2026 | Kerrigan Dennis Francis | officer: Executive Vice President | Common Stock | D | 400 | $220.01 |
| Aug 20, 2026 | Kerrigan Dennis Francis | officer: Executive Vice President | Common Stock | D | 1,704 | $222.97 |
| Aug 20, 2026 | Kerrigan Dennis Francis | officer: Executive Vice President | Common Stock Option (right to buy) | D | 2,104 | $118.54 |
| Aug 19, 2026 | Kerrigan Dennis Francis | officer: Executive Vice President | Common Stock | A | 6,551 | $118.54 |
Operator: Good day, and welcome to the Hanover Insurance Group's Second Quarter Earnings Conference Call. My name is Chris, and I will be your operator for today's call. Please note that today's event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Oksana Lukasheva. Please go ahead. Oksana Lukasheva: Thank you, operator. Good morning, and thank you for joining us for our quarterly conference call. We will begin today's call with prepared remarks from Jack Roche, our President and Chief Executive Officer; and Jeff Farber, our Chief Financial Officer. Available to answer your questions after our prepared remarks are Dick Lavey, our Chief Operating Officer and CEO elect; and Bryan Salvatore, President of Specialty Lines. Before I turn the call over to Jack, let me note that our earnings press release financial supplement and a complete slide presentation for today's call are available in the Investors section of our website at hanover.com. After the presentation, we will answer questions in the Q&A session. Our prepared remarks and responses to your questions today, other than statements of historical fact, include forward-looking statements as defined under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements can relate to, among other things, our outlook guidance, profitability, growth, strategy, capital management, the implementation and use of new technologies the impact of recently revised policy terms and conditions and targeted property actions. Additionally, they can relate to factors that could impact the company's performance and/or cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated, including changes in the demand for our products economic and geopolitical conditions and related effects, including economic and social inflation, tariffs as well as other risks and uncertainties such as severe weather and catastrophes. We caution you with respect to reliance on forward-looking statements, and in this respect, refer you to the forward-looking statements section in our press release, the presentation deck and our filings with the SEC. Today's discussion will also reference certain non-GAAP financial measures such as operating income and accident year loss and combined ratios, excluding catastrophes, among others. A reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to the closest GAAP measure on a historical basis can be found in the press release, the slide presentation or the financial supplement, which are posted on our website. With their comments, I will turn the call over to Jack. John "Jack" C. Roche: Thank you, Oksana, and good morning, everyone. We delivered an outstanding second quarter with results that underscore the resilience of our business and the strength of our execution in a dynamic market environment. Our performance demonstrates that disciplined underwriting and targeted growth can coexist, and this combination is delivering significant returns. We continue to be …
| Name | Title | Compensation | Gender | Year Born | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
John Conner Roche | President, Chief Executive Officer & Director | USD 4,482,991 | Male | 1964 | Active |
Jeffrey Mark Farber | Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer | USD 2,404,371 | Male | 1965 | Active |
Richard William Lavey | Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer | USD 2,124,330 | Male | 1968 | Active |
Bryan James Salvatore | Executive Vice President & President of Specialty | USD 1,970,029 | Male | 1965 | Active |
Dennis Francis Kerrigan Jr. | Executive VP, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary | USD 1,388,334 | Male | 1965 | Active |
Jennifer F. Luisa | Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer | — | Female | — | Active |
Willard Ty-Lunn Lee | Executive VP and Chief Information & Innovation Officer | — | Male | 1970 | Active |
Toni E. Mitchell | President of Technology & Life Sciences Business | — | Female | — | Active |
Oksana Lukasheva | Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance | — | Female | — | Active |
Lindsay France Greenfield | Senior Vice President & Chief investment Officer | — | Female | — | Active |
Patricia Ann Norton-Gatto | Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller & Principal Accounting Officer | — | Female | 1968 | Active |
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