{"id":1101,"date":"2013-02-05T17:09:59","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T15:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2013-02-05T17:09:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T15:09:59","slug":"markel-reports-2012-financial-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/?p=1101","title":{"rendered":"Markel reports 2012 Financial Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/markel-reports-2012-financial-results-214600986.html\" target=\"_blank\">Markel Corporation (NYSE:MKL) today reported its FY 2012 results!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Diluted net income per share was $25.89 in 2012 compared to $14.60 in 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite hurricane Sandy which cost $107.4 million or five points of underwriting loss in the 4<sup>th<\/sup> quarter, the 2012 combined ratio improved to 97% compared to 102% in 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Book value per common share outstanding , the very important metric in the insurance industry, increased 15% to $403.85 up from $352.10 at the end of 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Let&#8217;s wait for the conference call to possibly get some news about the &#8220;Alterra deal&#8221;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Markel Corporation (NYSE:MKL) today reported its FY 2012 results! Diluted net income per share was $25.89 in 2012 compared to $14.60 in 2011. Despite hurricane Sandy which cost $107.4 million or five points of underwriting loss in the 4th quarter, the 2012 combined ratio improved to 97% compared to 102% in 2011. Book value per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions\/1107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}