M22 Working student at $AIG (+2,3 %)

Currently 350€ savings rate with

• 180€ $ALLW (+0,69 %)
• 120€ $XNAS (+1,52 %)
• 50€ $BTC (+0,88 %)

The other positions should continue to run for the time being. If necessary, take 10-20% profit and put it into the core. Otherwise actually quite satisfied, but at the moment everything is going up anyway.

Do you think the portfolio is too aggressive or would you change something in general? The aim is to accumulate enough equity in the next 5-10 years for the down payment on a home.

Thanks in advance and have a nice weekend :)

🛡️ Skyward Specialty Insurance $SKWD
- The niche king in the insurance sector

Hello my dears,

There have been a lot of great companies featured here lately like from @Shiya with $DCTH (+2,1 %) or$HROW or stock presentations from dear @Tenbagger2024

Many ideas in the health sector or technologies

Today I would like to introduce you to a company, especially in a sector that not many people think about. The insurance sector 😬 and I have my eye 👀 on this small-cap company. small-cap company thrown.

TODAY IT'S ABOUT SKYWARD SPECIALTY INSURANCE $SKWD

$SKWD Skyward Specialty is not a traditional car or household insurer. The company is active in the Specialty Property & Casualty (P&C) where risks are complex, difficult to assess and often underinsured.

1. the business model: "Rule Our Niche" 🎯

The company pursues a clear strategy: Specialization instead of mass.

* Focus: They insure niches such as renewable energies, media criminal law, life sciences, construction and professional liability.

- Technology focus: Skyward makes extensive use of data analytics and AI (partnering with Sixfold) to price risks more accurately than large, sluggish competitors.

Agility: Due to its smaller size compared to giants like $CB (-0,47 %) or $AIG (+2,3 %) they can react more quickly to changes in the market.

- The "Apollo Group Holdings Limited" takeover (January 2026)

For the start of the new year 2026, they have acquired "Apollo Group Holdings Limited" for further growth drivers. Apollo (a Lloyd's of London syndicate) for further growth! This means for $SKWD

- Access to the world's most important marketplace for specialty insurance (Lloyd's).

- An immediate global presence instead of being limited to the US market.

The company offers insurance solutions for complex risks that are often avoided by standard insurers. They operate in eight core areas, including:

🏗️Bauwesen & Energy: Specialized solutions for high-risk industries.

🩺👨‍⚖️👷‍♂️ Professional liability: For doctors, lawyers and architects.

🌾Special programs: Tailor-made packages for very specific industries (e.g. transportation, agriculture).

- Transactional E&S: "Excess & Surplus" lines, i.e. risks that cannot be insured via the regular market.

👤 Management: who pulls the strings?

The success of an insurer stands and falls with discipline in underwriting (risk assessment). This is where the CEO comes into play:

- CEO: Andrew Robinson

- He took the helm in 2020🤝

- Robinson is an industry heavyweight. He previously held senior positions at The Hanover Insurance Group and as a consultant at Oak HC/FT.

- His strategy: He has radically trimmed Skyward for technology and data analytics. His focus is not on "size at any cost", but on profitability in segments that other insurers find too complicated.

2. the key figures📊

- Market capitalization: Approx. USD 2.1 billion.

- Share price: current share price approx. USD 50.00

- P/E ratio (P/E ratio): approx. 13 - 15 (attractively valued for a growth stock in the insurance sector).

- Combined ratio: Is constant at approx. 91-92 %.

- For information: Anything below 100% means that the insurer is operating profitably (premiums > claims & costs). 91 % is an excellent value.

- Growth: Gross sales (written premiums) recently rose by over 50 % year-on-year (Q3 2025).

🟢 Growth turbo (revenue growth): In the last quarter (Q3 2025), gross premiums rose by a whopping 51,6 % compared to the previous year. This is exceptionally high organic growth for an insurer.

🟢 Profitability (combined ratio): With a value of 89,2 % in Q3 2025, Skyward has set a new company record. As a reminder: the lower this value is below 100%, the more profitable the core business is.

🟢Return on equity (ROE): The annualized return on equity currently stands at 19,3 %. This shows that the management is making highly efficient use of shareholders' capital (the benchmark in the sector is often closer to 12-15%).

🟢Increase in book value: The book value per share increased to September 2025 to 23,75 $ - an increase of 20 % since the beginning of 2025.

🟢Earnings per share (EPS) of 1.10 were massively above analysts' estimates (approx. 0.85). The main drivers were:

1. Strong new business in the areas of agriculture, credit insurance and specialty programs.

2. Higher investment income: Due to the interest rate environment, Skyward earned significantly more on its USD 1.6 billion portfolio (primarily bonds).

3. Lower catastrophe losses: Compared to the previous year, there were fewer claims from severe storms.

3. why is the share exciting? 🚀

1. Enormous profit growth: Analysts expect profit growth of over 35% for 2026. The company regularly beats expectations✅

2.Skyward Speciality is currently delivering a rare combination of hyper-growth (premiums +50%) and operational excellence (combined ratio < 90 %) ✅

3.while established players such as $RLI (+0,69 %) or $KNSL (+0,55 %) , $WRB (-1,34 %) are growing moderately (often in the single-digit or low double-digit range), Skyward is growing at +50 % is an absolute outlier. This shows that $SKWD is gaining massive market share.✅

4. High return on equity (ROE): With an ROE of over 17%, Skyward works very efficiently with shareholders' money.✅

5. Interest profit: As an insurer, Skyward holds billions in fixed-interest securities. The higher interest rate level ensures bubbling investment income.✅

6.Acquisition turbo: The integration of Apollo opens up access to the global Lloyd's market.✅

7.experienced management: Andrew Robinson has transformed the company from a problem child to a high performer in just 4 years.✅

4. risks ⚠️

- Inflation risk: Rising costs for repairs or legal proceedings (loss inflation) could squeeze margins.❗️

- Catastrophe risk: Although Skyward occupies niche markets, extreme weather events can weigh on results.❗️

- Interest rate sensitivity: If interest rates fall extremely quickly, investment returns from the portfolio will fall.❗️

5. conclusion & analyst rating 🧐

$SKWD Skyward Specialty is a classic growth growth story in a conservative sector. The share has significantly outperformed the S&P 500 in recent years.

Analysts' price target: The consensus is approx. 63 - 70 USDwhich corresponds to an upside potential of approx. 25-35 % ⬆️entspricht.

My personal conclusion ?

$SKWD is not a dividend payer like e.g. now a $ALV (-1,45 %) or $MUV2 (-0,55 %) but is $SKWD a highly exciting "quality-growth" stock. If you are looking for growth, this small-cap company could be a very interesting candidate.

Despite the sharp rise in the share price, I think the valuation is $SKWD fair to slightly undervalued, which is why I'm toying with the idea of going in with a tranche🤫

But as far as I know, the share is not tradable with many NeoBrokers 😅

What is your opinion of the company?

Would the share be something for your portfolio?

@Tenbagger2024

$UNH (+1,57 %) currently a community favorite, but for what reason?

Probably simply in the hope of a rebound, according to the motto too big not to get healthy again. First of all, I would like to $AIG (+2,3 %) to the heart.

That said, I asked myself: What is the worst-case scenario and how expensive would the share be then?

If you look around, you quickly notice something. The RX business. The RX business is highly controversial and since Donald wants to cut costs, everyone is pointing the finger at it. In short, the PBM sector. And rightly so, but unfortunately for all US insurers, because the business brings in a 4% margin and $6 billion, at least at UNH. If we assume that the business were to disappear completely, even though there is a little more there, the share price would fall significantly again. Short beer calculation. PE 11, RX LTM 6 bn, precautionary measures on transfer we take 5 bn into net profit, the result is 21,296-5=16,296. 16,296*11=179,256 bn market capitalization, that is 20% minus from the present time. If you convert that into euros, it's 25% and €160 per share. Of course the calculation is a beer calculation but be aware of the downside. The upside is not too high for the risk involved.

$LMND (-1,87 %)

History:

$LMND (-1,87 %) is an insurance company that was founded as a public benefit corporation and has its headquarters in New York and its European branch in Amsterdam. Lemonade has been traded as a public company on the New York Stock Exchange since July 2020.

$LMND (-1,87 %) Insurance was founded in 2015 by Daniel Schreiber and Shai Wininger with the goal of revolutionizing the insurance industry through technology. The company started by providing home insurance and relies heavily on artificial intelligence and chatbots for claims processing and customer service.

$LMND (-1,87 %) has experienced rapid expansion, including an IPO in 2020 and expansion into Germany

business model:

Lemonade, Inc. offers renters, homeowners, auto, pet and life insurance.

Current market capitalization 3 billion

The company's full-stack, artificial intelligence-powered insurance carriers in the United States and European Union replace brokers and bureaucracy with bots and machine learning. The company's digital substrate enables it to integrate marketing and onboarding with underwriting and claims processing, and to collect and utilize data.

Its technology includes Data Advantage,

AI Maya, AI Jim, CX.AI, Forensic Graph, Blender and Cooper.

AI Maya, the onboarding and customer experience bot, uses natural language to assist customers in the onboarding process.

AI Jim, the claims reporting bot, receives the customer's first claim and pays the claimant or rejects the claim without human intervention.

The company offers pet insurance policies that cover diagnoses, procedures, medication, accidents or illnesses. Even the basic pet insurance covers blood tests, urinalysis, laboratory tests and CT scans.

What is the Lemonade $LMND (-1,87 %)
Giveback?

Giveback is at the heart of Lemonade. This core element of the business model enables customers to use their Lemonade insurance policies to support causes that are close to their hearts.

Since 2017, Lemonade has $LMND (-1,87 %) donated over 10 million US dollars to help build new homes, provide clean water, improve education, promote animal rights and much more.

Here's how it works:

When a customer purchases a $LMND (-1,87 %) renters, homeowners, auto or pet insurance, charges a flat fee to cover $LMND (-1,87 %) a flat fee to support and grow the business. A portion of the premiums goes towards claims settlement and the balance goes directly to one of their Giveback Partners - non-profit organizations selected by our customers.

$LMND (-1,87 %) is a non-profit corporation:

$LMND (-1,87 %) is a Public Benefit Corporation and a certified B Corp, which means they are legally committed to making a positive social impact. B Corp certification is awarded to companies that demonstrate that they balance profit and purpose while putting people and the planet at the center.

Every three years, they undergo a comprehensive assessment of their entire organization.

Number of employees: 1 258 (end of 2024)

Profitability:

$LMND (-1,87 %) Approaching a turning point, possibly offering a promising investment opportunity.

Profitability increases with size, as costs do not rise due to additional premiums, as is normally the case with conventional insurance companies.

Management expects EBITDA profitability in 2026 and net profit profitability in 2027.

They see an extremely clear path to profitability:

They also have a clear path to profitability :

- Loss ratio from 92% to 73

- Net profit margin -123% to -20.2%

- Continued increase in sales growth rates

Growth:

Growth is currently still controlled, but the real growth is yet to come, with sales growth rates continuing to rise in the last two quarters.

They have been able to achieve these growth rates without an expansive expansion (both in existing and additional potential states) of automobile insurance, which represents a huge opportunity for $LMND (-1,87 %) represents a huge opportunity.

Car insurance

$LMND (-1,87 %) currently has around 2.3 million customers who use renters, pet and other insurance products. These customers use $LMND (-1,87 %) for one reason: favorable price and convenience.

The share of car insurance is currently still very small and has a lot of room for expansion, so if we were to assume that only 30% of them become car insurance customers with an average annual turnover of USD 1,800, that would be an additional USD 1.24 billion in turnover per year ... just by cross-selling 30% (without any other new customers)

Pet insurance:

The pet insurance market was a $5 billion market in the US last year. It is expected to reach 6 billion dollars in 2025 and 15.7 billion dollars by 2030, growing by 22% annually.

$LMND (-1,87 %) - Total annual premiums recently surpassed the $1 billion mark. So if you were to capture 50% of the pet insurance market, premiums would increase eightfold in just five years (800% assuming the projected growth above)

Trupanion (green line) has a 25% market share today. $LMND (blue line) is around 5%.

However, the search trend will continue to have a positive effect for $LMND (-1,87 %) especially as it is only just beginning to expand further into all states. (This also applies to the other insurance segments)

Opportunities/long-term potential:

I think the future possibilities and opportunities for $LMND (-1,87 %) a supposedly boring industry are enormous.

The insurance market has one of the largest TAMs of all.

The global insurance market was worth around USD 8 trillion in 2024. The USA and China are the largest insurance markets worldwide, with the USA leading the way with a market share of around 45% and China with around 10%.

• Slight international expansion (online)
• Product expansion (additional lines)
• Enormous cross-selling potential
• Decreasing dependence on reinsurance
• Simple and fast premium calculation, conclusion and claims settlement (through AI)
• Already tested/calculated in-house: https://www.lemonade.com
• 10-fold sales opportunity

$ALV (-1,45 %)
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