NASDAQ:GLRE Greenlight Capital Re Q1 2024 Earnings Report $13.14 +0.06 (+0.46%) Closing price 04/28/2025 04:00 PM EasternExtended Trading$13.16 +0.02 (+0.19%) As of 04/28/2025 04:05 PM Eastern Extended trading is trading that happens on electronic markets outside of regular trading hours. This is a fair market value extended hours price provided by Polygon.io. Learn more. Earnings History Greenlight Capital Re EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.78Consensus EPS N/ABeat/MissN/AOne Year Ago EPSN/AGreenlight Capital Re Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$182.89 millionExpected RevenueN/ABeat/MissN/AYoY Revenue GrowthN/AGreenlight Capital Re Announcement DetailsQuarterQ1 2024Date5/8/2024TimeN/AConference Call DateThursday, May 9, 2024Conference Call Time9:00AM ETUpcoming EarningsGreenlight Capital Re's Q1 2025 earnings is scheduled for Tuesday, May 6, 2025, with a conference call scheduled on Thursday, May 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM ET. Check back for transcripts, audio, and key financial metrics as they become available.Conference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfilePowered by Greenlight Capital Re Q1 2024 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrMay 9, 2024 ShareLink copied to clipboard.There are 5 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Thank you for joining the Greenlight Capital Re Ltd. First Quarter 20 24 Earnings Conference. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. Operator00:00:20It is now my pleasure to turn the call over to David Sigman, Greenlight Re's General Counsel. You may begin. Speaker 100:00:27Thank you, and good morning. I would like to remind you that this conference call is being recorded and will be available for replay following the conclusion of the event. An audio replay will also be available under the Investors section of the company's website at www.greenlightre.com. Joining us on the call today will be our Chief Executive Officer, Greg Richardson Chairman of the Board, David Einhorn and Chief Financial Officer, Balmars Romer. On behalf of the company, I'd like to remind you that forward looking statements may be made during this call and are intended to be covered by the Safe Harbor provisions of the federal securities laws. Speaker 100:01:10These forward looking statements reflect the company's current expectations, estimates and predictions about future results and are subject to risks and uncertainties. As a result, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied. For more information on the risks and other factors that may impact future performance, investors should review the periodic reports that are filed by the company with the SEC from time to time. Additionally, management may refer to certain non GAAP financial measures. The reconciliations to these measures can be found in the company's filings with the SEC, including the company's recently filed Form 10Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2024. Speaker 100:01:59The company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward looking statements. With that, it is now my pleasure to turn the call over to Greg. Speaker 200:02:11Thanks, David. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. Greenlight Re had a strong first quarter with gross written premium up 16.5% compared to the Q1 of 2023. We delivered net income of $27,000,000 which equates to 3.9% growth in fully diluted book value per share during the quarter or 16.5% on an annualized basis. We reported a combined ratio of 98% for the quarter, our 6th consecutive quarter of underwriting profitability. Speaker 200:02:49Our underwriting result includes a $10,100,000 loss net of recoveries and reinstatement premiums from the tragic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. This equates to 6.3% combined ratio points for the quarter. Our exposure to this loss is predominantly driven by our specialty book, where we reinsure a number of ceded to provide cover to the international group. Based on an industry loss estimate of approximately $3,000,000,000 we have assumed a full limit loss to Discover. Our net loss position benefits from excess of loss outwards reinsurance protection with additional protection still available if the industry loss estimate deteriorates. Speaker 200:03:35Accordingly, we expect limited variability in our loss reserve from this event. Our underwriting portfolio favors shorter tail specialty classes such as marine. So a loss of this magnitude falls within our range of expectations despite the Baltimore Bridge loss perhaps being the largest marine loss in history. We were able to absorb it during the quarter while still delivering a small underwriting profit. Moreover, we expect the marine market rates to harden as a result of this significant event. Speaker 200:04:12The 16.5% growth in 1st quarter gross written premium was primarily driven by growth in our casualty and specialty books as we took advantage of the strong rate environment. We were pleased to grow these classes of business in an environment where signings were competitive. During the Q1, we non renewed a homeowners quota share contract due to its exposure to U. S. Convective storm risk. Speaker 200:04:40Excluding this contract, we also grew our property book during the quarter since we believe property cat pricing continues to be attractive. Moving to April 1, 2024 renewal season, we saw similar trends to January 1 renewals with some premium growth year on year. The rating environment is broadly flat to down a few points, but in general market discipline remains strong. We write a small Japanese property cat book at April 1, 2024. Consistent with overall market conditions, rates were very modestly down, but there was significant pressure on signings. Speaker 200:05:23The nearly 50% strengthening of the U. S. Dollar versus the yen since the beginning of 2021, no doubt affects the overall supply demand balance for Japanese catastrophe reinsurance. A key personal focus has been to meet with our innovations portfolio companies. Our Head of Innovations, Brian O'Reilly and I met with the leaders of a number of our portfolio companies during the quarter, having a chance to understand their unique value propositions and their potential for profitable growth. Speaker 200:05:58I'm impressed with the quality of these opportunities and the excellent work our team performs in identifying, selecting, guiding and nurturing these innovative new businesses. Finally, in our March call, I provided some initial impressions of Greenlight Re and noted that Greenlight Re is in good shape and has exciting prospects. I would like to reiterate that impression. Now I'll turn the call over to David Eineland. Speaker 300:06:30Great. Thanks, Greg, and good morning, everyone. The solid glass fund returned 5.2% in the Q1. Our long portfolio added 4.4%, the short portfolio was flat and macro added 1.8%. During the quarter, the S and P 500 Index advanced 10.6%. Speaker 300:06:50The largest positive contributors were long investments in Green Brick Partners and Tenet Healthcare and interest rate related position and gold. The largest detractors were long positions in console energy and Penn Entertainment and a single name short position. Green Brick Partners advanced 16% after the company announced strong 4th quarter results. The company continues to perform well in its core markets and appears well positioned for another strong year in 2024. Tenet Healthcare rose 39%, benefiting from ongoing strength in healthcare utilization and the sale of additional hospitals at premium multiples. Speaker 300:07:28Early in the quarter, we established a new macro position by selling December 24 SOFR Futures. At the time, the market expected the Federal Reserve to cut short term interest rates between 6 and 7 times this year. The position benefited as the market came around to our view by the end of the quarter with only about 2 to 3 25 basis point cuts priced in for 2024. We trimmed the position to take some profits. Gold was also a significant contributor as the price advanced more than 8% during the quarter. Speaker 300:08:02CONSOL Energy shares fell 17% due to moderately lower coal pricing early in the quarter and the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge Baltimore Harbor later in the quarter. The bridge collapse will prevent CONSOL from exporting coal from its local terminal in the near term, but we do not believe this to have a long term relevance for this investment. I will note this is the first time in many years where we saw risk aggregation on both sides of the balance sheet, which is a rare occurrence. On the other hand, console has insurance for the interruption and should be able to recoup much of its loss. We established a long position in Penn Entertainment, an operator of land based casinos and ESPN Bet, its new online gaming business. Speaker 300:08:48The shares declined 30% during the Q1 as the market appears to be concerned about the amount of marketing spend the company undertook to acquire customers, while launching ESPN VET. We believe the launch was successful and the company acquired 1,000,000 customers in less than 2 months and guided to profitability a year earlier than previous guidance. Last quarter, we referred to a new large position we were building in an undisclosed materials company. We unveiled this position as Solvay, a Belgian Chemicals company at an investment conference in early April After undergoing a corporate restructuring, which spun out a specialty chemicals division as ScienceGo, The new Solvay's key products are soda ash and bicar as well as peroxides, silicas, fluorine, earth formulations and solvents. We expect Solvay to earn near €7 per share in 20.28 and we acquired our position for less than 4 times those earnings. Speaker 300:09:47All while the company plans to pay us an annual dividend of nearly 10% per year on our investment. Addition to Penn and Solvay, we had a productive quarter and found a number of other promising long investments. We established a medium a new medium sized long position in HP Inc. And a macro position to benefit from higher copper prices, well as the small long positions in Roy Vent Sciences and the Class A shares of Liberty Global. The Solace Glass portfolio returned 1 at the end of April. Speaker 300:10:29Greg has now been with us for just over 4 months and the management transition has been very smooth. He's a prolific manager and leader, and we just had a fantastic Board meeting in Cayman, where I've observed an energized team with a shared strategy and vision. Now I'd like to turn the call over to FarMarge to discuss the financial results. Speaker 400:10:50Thank you, David, and good morning, everyone. During the Q1 of 2024, we generated earnings of $27,000,000 or $0.78 per diluted share compared to $5,900,000 or $0.17 per diluted share in Q1 2023. The underwriting book generated a $3,400,000 profit after underwriting related G and A expenses, which equates to a combined ratio of 98.0 percent. Current period catastrophe losses accounted for $12,400,000 or 7.7 combined ratio points, mainly related to the Baltimore Bridge incident as well as losses from satellite failures. As Greg stated, we have booked the bridge loss at the full limit of our share of the underlying international group cover. Speaker 400:11:43Adverse loss development in the quarter primarily related to 2023 events, including an oil platform fire, Hurricane Otis and U. S. Convective storms, as well as reserve strengthening on a general liability program relating the 2015 to 2017 years. The adverse development was partially offset by reserve releases on the fall 2021 year of account and matured specialty excess of loss contracts. While none of these individually were significant, we generally tend to lean into adverse information quicker and wait for more clarity on favorable developments. Speaker 400:12:23The net adverse development of $5,400,000 accounted for 3.3 combined ratio points during the Q1 of 2024. The rest of the current in force book performed in line with our expectations. During the Q1, our net premiums written increased by $18,800,000 or 10.7 percent to $194,100,000 compared to the same quarter in 2023. The growth was split between our casualty and specialty books, while the property book offset some of the increases. The net premiums earned were $161,500,000 an increase of $18,900,000 or 13.2 percent compared to the same quarter in 2023. Speaker 400:13:13Turning to our casualty book, net premiums written increased by $12,300,000 or 14.1 percent during the Q1, primarily related to multi line contracts, which is mostly composed of the Lloyd's syndicate business. The composite ratio for the casualty business improved to 91% in the Q1 compared to 100 and 3.8% during the comparable period in 2023. Moving to our specialty book, net premiums written increased by $11,600,000 or 18.7 percent during the Q1 mainly classes. The composite ratio for the specialty business increased to 110.7% in the Q1 compared to 75.8% during the comparable period in 2023. While the Baltimore Bridge incident accounted for much of the increase, adverse development related to the 2023 oil platform explosion also contributed to the higher composite ratio this quarter. Speaker 400:14:24Within our property book, net premiums written decreased by $5,000,000 or 19% during the Q1, driven primarily by a non renewed homeowners contract that Greg mentioned earlier. Excluding this contract, our net premiums written for the property book increased by $3,800,000 or 22%. The composite ratio for the property book business was 71% for the Q1 compared to 113% during that had impacted the homeowners contract in the Q1 of 2023. Total general and administrative expenses increased by $800,000 during the Q1 to $10,700,000 compared to $9,900,000 in the Q1 of 2023. We have been successful in recruiting talented individuals across the organization as we grow in all three jurisdictions in which we operate. Speaker 400:15:32We reported total net investment income of $26,400,000 during the Q1 of 2024 compared to $5,200,000 in 2023. Our investment in the Solasglas Fund reported a gain of $18,200,000 or 5.2 percent, while our innovations investments reported a small loss in the Q1. We earned $8,600,000 of interest income on our restricted cash and cash equivalents and on our funds deposited at Lloyd's. At the end of the Q1, our fully diluted book value per share was $17.39 an increase of 3.9 percent from December 31, 2023. 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Email Address About Greenlight Capital ReGreenlight Capital Re (NASDAQ:GLRE), through its subsidiaries, operates as a property and casualty reinsurance company worldwide. The company offers various property reinsurance products and services, including automobile physical damage, personal lines, and commercial lines. It also provides casualty reinsurance products and services comprising general liability, motor liability, professional liability, and worker's compensation; and accident and health, transactional liability, mortgage insurance, surety, trade credit, marine, and energy, as well as other specialty products, such as aviation, crop, cyber, political, and terrorism products. The company markets its products through reinsurance brokers. 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There are 5 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Thank you for joining the Greenlight Capital Re Ltd. First Quarter 20 24 Earnings Conference. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. Operator00:00:20It is now my pleasure to turn the call over to David Sigman, Greenlight Re's General Counsel. You may begin. Speaker 100:00:27Thank you, and good morning. I would like to remind you that this conference call is being recorded and will be available for replay following the conclusion of the event. An audio replay will also be available under the Investors section of the company's website at www.greenlightre.com. Joining us on the call today will be our Chief Executive Officer, Greg Richardson Chairman of the Board, David Einhorn and Chief Financial Officer, Balmars Romer. On behalf of the company, I'd like to remind you that forward looking statements may be made during this call and are intended to be covered by the Safe Harbor provisions of the federal securities laws. Speaker 100:01:10These forward looking statements reflect the company's current expectations, estimates and predictions about future results and are subject to risks and uncertainties. As a result, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied. For more information on the risks and other factors that may impact future performance, investors should review the periodic reports that are filed by the company with the SEC from time to time. Additionally, management may refer to certain non GAAP financial measures. The reconciliations to these measures can be found in the company's filings with the SEC, including the company's recently filed Form 10Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2024. Speaker 100:01:59The company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward looking statements. With that, it is now my pleasure to turn the call over to Greg. Speaker 200:02:11Thanks, David. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. Greenlight Re had a strong first quarter with gross written premium up 16.5% compared to the Q1 of 2023. We delivered net income of $27,000,000 which equates to 3.9% growth in fully diluted book value per share during the quarter or 16.5% on an annualized basis. We reported a combined ratio of 98% for the quarter, our 6th consecutive quarter of underwriting profitability. Speaker 200:02:49Our underwriting result includes a $10,100,000 loss net of recoveries and reinstatement premiums from the tragic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. This equates to 6.3% combined ratio points for the quarter. Our exposure to this loss is predominantly driven by our specialty book, where we reinsure a number of ceded to provide cover to the international group. Based on an industry loss estimate of approximately $3,000,000,000 we have assumed a full limit loss to Discover. Our net loss position benefits from excess of loss outwards reinsurance protection with additional protection still available if the industry loss estimate deteriorates. Speaker 200:03:35Accordingly, we expect limited variability in our loss reserve from this event. Our underwriting portfolio favors shorter tail specialty classes such as marine. So a loss of this magnitude falls within our range of expectations despite the Baltimore Bridge loss perhaps being the largest marine loss in history. We were able to absorb it during the quarter while still delivering a small underwriting profit. Moreover, we expect the marine market rates to harden as a result of this significant event. Speaker 200:04:12The 16.5% growth in 1st quarter gross written premium was primarily driven by growth in our casualty and specialty books as we took advantage of the strong rate environment. We were pleased to grow these classes of business in an environment where signings were competitive. During the Q1, we non renewed a homeowners quota share contract due to its exposure to U. S. Convective storm risk. Speaker 200:04:40Excluding this contract, we also grew our property book during the quarter since we believe property cat pricing continues to be attractive. Moving to April 1, 2024 renewal season, we saw similar trends to January 1 renewals with some premium growth year on year. The rating environment is broadly flat to down a few points, but in general market discipline remains strong. We write a small Japanese property cat book at April 1, 2024. Consistent with overall market conditions, rates were very modestly down, but there was significant pressure on signings. Speaker 200:05:23The nearly 50% strengthening of the U. S. Dollar versus the yen since the beginning of 2021, no doubt affects the overall supply demand balance for Japanese catastrophe reinsurance. A key personal focus has been to meet with our innovations portfolio companies. Our Head of Innovations, Brian O'Reilly and I met with the leaders of a number of our portfolio companies during the quarter, having a chance to understand their unique value propositions and their potential for profitable growth. Speaker 200:05:58I'm impressed with the quality of these opportunities and the excellent work our team performs in identifying, selecting, guiding and nurturing these innovative new businesses. Finally, in our March call, I provided some initial impressions of Greenlight Re and noted that Greenlight Re is in good shape and has exciting prospects. I would like to reiterate that impression. Now I'll turn the call over to David Eineland. Speaker 300:06:30Great. Thanks, Greg, and good morning, everyone. The solid glass fund returned 5.2% in the Q1. Our long portfolio added 4.4%, the short portfolio was flat and macro added 1.8%. During the quarter, the S and P 500 Index advanced 10.6%. Speaker 300:06:50The largest positive contributors were long investments in Green Brick Partners and Tenet Healthcare and interest rate related position and gold. The largest detractors were long positions in console energy and Penn Entertainment and a single name short position. Green Brick Partners advanced 16% after the company announced strong 4th quarter results. The company continues to perform well in its core markets and appears well positioned for another strong year in 2024. Tenet Healthcare rose 39%, benefiting from ongoing strength in healthcare utilization and the sale of additional hospitals at premium multiples. Speaker 300:07:28Early in the quarter, we established a new macro position by selling December 24 SOFR Futures. At the time, the market expected the Federal Reserve to cut short term interest rates between 6 and 7 times this year. The position benefited as the market came around to our view by the end of the quarter with only about 2 to 3 25 basis point cuts priced in for 2024. We trimmed the position to take some profits. Gold was also a significant contributor as the price advanced more than 8% during the quarter. Speaker 300:08:02CONSOL Energy shares fell 17% due to moderately lower coal pricing early in the quarter and the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge Baltimore Harbor later in the quarter. The bridge collapse will prevent CONSOL from exporting coal from its local terminal in the near term, but we do not believe this to have a long term relevance for this investment. I will note this is the first time in many years where we saw risk aggregation on both sides of the balance sheet, which is a rare occurrence. On the other hand, console has insurance for the interruption and should be able to recoup much of its loss. We established a long position in Penn Entertainment, an operator of land based casinos and ESPN Bet, its new online gaming business. Speaker 300:08:48The shares declined 30% during the Q1 as the market appears to be concerned about the amount of marketing spend the company undertook to acquire customers, while launching ESPN VET. We believe the launch was successful and the company acquired 1,000,000 customers in less than 2 months and guided to profitability a year earlier than previous guidance. Last quarter, we referred to a new large position we were building in an undisclosed materials company. We unveiled this position as Solvay, a Belgian Chemicals company at an investment conference in early April After undergoing a corporate restructuring, which spun out a specialty chemicals division as ScienceGo, The new Solvay's key products are soda ash and bicar as well as peroxides, silicas, fluorine, earth formulations and solvents. We expect Solvay to earn near €7 per share in 20.28 and we acquired our position for less than 4 times those earnings. Speaker 300:09:47All while the company plans to pay us an annual dividend of nearly 10% per year on our investment. Addition to Penn and Solvay, we had a productive quarter and found a number of other promising long investments. We established a medium a new medium sized long position in HP Inc. And a macro position to benefit from higher copper prices, well as the small long positions in Roy Vent Sciences and the Class A shares of Liberty Global. The Solace Glass portfolio returned 1 at the end of April. Speaker 300:10:29Greg has now been with us for just over 4 months and the management transition has been very smooth. He's a prolific manager and leader, and we just had a fantastic Board meeting in Cayman, where I've observed an energized team with a shared strategy and vision. Now I'd like to turn the call over to FarMarge to discuss the financial results. Speaker 400:10:50Thank you, David, and good morning, everyone. During the Q1 of 2024, we generated earnings of $27,000,000 or $0.78 per diluted share compared to $5,900,000 or $0.17 per diluted share in Q1 2023. The underwriting book generated a $3,400,000 profit after underwriting related G and A expenses, which equates to a combined ratio of 98.0 percent. Current period catastrophe losses accounted for $12,400,000 or 7.7 combined ratio points, mainly related to the Baltimore Bridge incident as well as losses from satellite failures. As Greg stated, we have booked the bridge loss at the full limit of our share of the underlying international group cover. Speaker 400:11:43Adverse loss development in the quarter primarily related to 2023 events, including an oil platform fire, Hurricane Otis and U. S. Convective storms, as well as reserve strengthening on a general liability program relating the 2015 to 2017 years. The adverse development was partially offset by reserve releases on the fall 2021 year of account and matured specialty excess of loss contracts. While none of these individually were significant, we generally tend to lean into adverse information quicker and wait for more clarity on favorable developments. Speaker 400:12:23The net adverse development of $5,400,000 accounted for 3.3 combined ratio points during the Q1 of 2024. The rest of the current in force book performed in line with our expectations. During the Q1, our net premiums written increased by $18,800,000 or 10.7 percent to $194,100,000 compared to the same quarter in 2023. The growth was split between our casualty and specialty books, while the property book offset some of the increases. The net premiums earned were $161,500,000 an increase of $18,900,000 or 13.2 percent compared to the same quarter in 2023. Speaker 400:13:13Turning to our casualty book, net premiums written increased by $12,300,000 or 14.1 percent during the Q1, primarily related to multi line contracts, which is mostly composed of the Lloyd's syndicate business. The composite ratio for the casualty business improved to 91% in the Q1 compared to 100 and 3.8% during the comparable period in 2023. Moving to our specialty book, net premiums written increased by $11,600,000 or 18.7 percent during the Q1 mainly classes. The composite ratio for the specialty business increased to 110.7% in the Q1 compared to 75.8% during the comparable period in 2023. While the Baltimore Bridge incident accounted for much of the increase, adverse development related to the 2023 oil platform explosion also contributed to the higher composite ratio this quarter. Speaker 400:14:24Within our property book, net premiums written decreased by $5,000,000 or 19% during the Q1, driven primarily by a non renewed homeowners contract that Greg mentioned earlier. Excluding this contract, our net premiums written for the property book increased by $3,800,000 or 22%. The composite ratio for the property book business was 71% for the Q1 compared to 113% during that had impacted the homeowners contract in the Q1 of 2023. Total general and administrative expenses increased by $800,000 during the Q1 to $10,700,000 compared to $9,900,000 in the Q1 of 2023. We have been successful in recruiting talented individuals across the organization as we grow in all three jurisdictions in which we operate. Speaker 400:15:32We reported total net investment income of $26,400,000 during the Q1 of 2024 compared to $5,200,000 in 2023. Our investment in the Solasglas Fund reported a gain of $18,200,000 or 5.2 percent, while our innovations investments reported a small loss in the Q1. We earned $8,600,000 of interest income on our restricted cash and cash equivalents and on our funds deposited at Lloyd's. At the end of the Q1, our fully diluted book value per share was $17.39 an increase of 3.9 percent from December 31, 2023. I will now hand the call back to the operator to open it up for questions. Operator00:16:27Thank you. We will now be conducting a question and answer Thank you. We've reached the end of our question and answer session. And that does conclude today's teleconferenceRead morePowered by