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Chubb Limited

NYSE · Financial Services
Chubb Limited
CB · Insurance - Property & Casualty
$325.12
▼ -1.1 (-0.34%)
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Mr. Market is currently offering Chubb Limited at $325.12.
The business passes 5 of 6 of Graham's defensive criteria — adequate but not exceptional.
Overall Grade
B
Defensive
A
Enterprising
Profitability A
Net Income Margin 17.2%
Fin. Health B
Years to Pay Off Debt 1.7 yrs
Valuation F
Margin of Safety 1.9%
Price-to-Book 1.71x
Cash Flow A
Free Cash Flow $12.8B
5/6
Graham Score
Enterprising
Defensive — Graham's strict criteria (P/B, P/E, dividends, stability)  ·  Enterprising — Profitability & cash flow focused, accepts higher valuations for quality
Metric Explanations
What each dimension measures and where the thresholds come from.
Net Income Margin
Bottom-line profit as a percentage of revenue. The ≥20% target reflects Buffett's preference for highly profitable businesses. Financial engineering (buybacks, tax optimisation) can inflate this temporarily — look for consistency across multiple years rather than a single strong result.
Years to Pay Off Debt
Total Debt ÷ Net Income. Lower = stronger balance sheet. Important caveat: utilities, telecoms, REITs, and infrastructure companies carry large structural debt by design — their bond-like cash flows service it comfortably at ratios that would alarm Graham. Compare within sector.
Margin of Safety
How far below the Graham Number the stock trades. Graham required a 33% discount as a buffer against analytical error. However, the Graham Number itself assumes 1960s-era P/E and P/B norms — for modern asset-light businesses it often understates true intrinsic value, making 0% MoS appear misleadingly bad.
Price-to-Book
Market price vs book value per share. Rarely below 1.5x for quality businesses today. Intangible assets (brand, software, patents) don't appear on the balance sheet under accounting rules, making P/B artificially high for asset-light companies. Negative P/B indicates book equity has been reduced by buybacks — common in highly profitable capital-return businesses.
Free Cash Flow
Operating cash flow minus capital expenditures. Buffett's most important metric — cash a business actually generates for its owners after maintaining and growing its asset base. Consistently positive FCF is one of the strongest indicators of a durable, well-run business regardless of accounting profits.
Market Cap $126.1B
Enterprise Value $150.3B
P/E (TTM) 11.50
Dividend Yield 1.19%
Exchange NYSE
Gross Profit N/A
Operating Margin N/A
Net Margin 17.2%
Sector Financial Services
Industry Insurance - Property & Casualty
Employees 45000
Country Switzerland
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Full Graham Analysis

Mr. Market is currently offering Chubb Limited at $325.12.

The business passes 5 of 6 of Graham's defensive criteria — adequate but not exceptional.

At $325.12, the stock trades below its Graham Number of $331.47 — suggesting a margin of safety exists.

Conclusion: This stock is better suited for Graham's Enterprising investor — one willing to devote time and skill to security selection.

About Chubb Limited

Chubb Limited provides insurance and reinsurance products worldwide. It operates in six segments: North America Commercial Property and Casualty (P&C) Insurance, North America Personal P&C Insurance, North America Agricultural Insurance, Overseas General Insurance, Global Reinsurance, and Life Insurance. The company offers property and general liability, workers' compensation, and umbrella; professional and management liability; environmental, health, and international coverages; and claims and risk management products and services, loss control, and engineering and complex claims management. It also provides homeowners, automobile and collector cars, valuable articles, and personal and excess liability insurance. In addition, the company offers multiple peril crop insurance and crop-hail insurance for farm, ranch, specialty (P&C), and commercial agriculture products; product and employer liability, business interruption, and specialty risk; property insurance products, including traditional commercial fire coverage, energy industry-related, marine, construction, and other technical coverages; personal accident and supplemental medical coverages, such as accidental death, business/holiday travel, specified disease, disability, medical and hospital indemnity, and income protection; and directors and officers, professional indemnity, cyber, surety, aviation, political risk, and specialty personal lines products. Further, it provides property catastrophe reinsurance; traditional and specialty P&C reinsurance; and protection and savings products, which includes individual and group term life, dental, critical illness, dementia, hospital cash, credit life, group employee benefits, whole life, universal life, unit linked contracts, endowment plans, and annuities. The company was formerly known as ACE Limited and changed its name to Chubb Limited in January 2016. Chubb Limited was incorporated in 1985 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Showing Key Metrics
Income Highlights
Metric 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
Gross Profit % N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Operating Margin % N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Net Income % 17.2% 16.6% 18.1% 12.2% N/A
Diluted EPS 25.68 22.51 21.80 12.55 N/A
Balance Sheet Highlights
Metric 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
Total Assets $272.3B $246.5B $230.7B $199.0B N/A
Total Debt $17.2B $15.2B $14.5B $14.9B N/A
Working Capital N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Years to Pay Debt 1.67 1.64 1.61 2.84 N/A
Cash Flow Highlights
Metric 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
Free Cash Flow $12.8B $16.2B $12.6B $11.3B N/A
Owner Earnings N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
CapEx % of Net Income N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
These metrics estimate what Chubb Limited is worth based on its fundamentals — independent of what the market currently prices it at. Graham's Fair Value and NCAV are conservative floors rooted in 1930s–60s principles. EPV assumes zero growth. None are price targets — they are reference points for judging whether the current price offers a margin of safety.
Graham's Fair Value
$331.47
Margin of Safety
1.9%
Market Cap ÷ Company Value
1.12

P/B Ratio
1.71
Warren's Owner Earnings
N/A
Latest fiscal year
Graham's 7 Criteria
Defensive Investor Checklist
5/6 — Enterprising Investor
Adequate Size
$59.8B
vs > $1.5B revenue
Earnings Stability
No loss years (4 yrs data)
vs No negative EPS years
Dividend Record
1.19%
vs Uninterrupted dividends
Earnings Growth
+104.6% EPS growth
vs > 33% EPS growth
Moderate P/E Ratio
11.5x
vs P/E ≤ 15.0x
Moderate Price-to-Book
1.71x P/B (P/E×P/B: 19.7)
vs P/B ≤ 1.5x | P/E × P/B ≤ 22.5
Graham's 7 Criteria — Explained
What each criterion measures and why it may or may not apply to modern businesses.
✅ Adequate Size — $59.8B vs > $1.5B revenue
Graham required companies large enough to withstand economic downturns. This threshold ($1.5B) is inflation-adjusted from Graham's original $100M — virtually all S&P 500 companies pass this today.
"The minimum size of an enterprise should be not less than $100 million of annual sales."
✅ Earnings Stability — No loss years (4 yrs data) vs No negative EPS years
Graham required uninterrupted positive earnings. Any loss year is a red flag for defensive investors. Growth companies and cyclicals may show occasional losses during investment cycles or downturns without being fundamentally unsound.
"The company should have shown no deficit in the past ten years."
✅ Dividend Record — 1.19% vs Uninterrupted dividends
Graham valued dividends as evidence of financial discipline and shareholder alignment. Many excellent modern businesses (Alphabet, Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway) pay no dividend, preferring to reinvest cash at high rates of return. Failing this criterion does not indicate a poor business — it may indicate a high-growth one.
"Some current dividend payments — for at least the past 20 years."
✅ Earnings Growth — +104.6% EPS growth vs > 33% EPS growth
EPS grew from $12.55 to $25.68 over 3 years. Graham's 33% threshold was set over a 10-year period. Measured over fewer years (as here), the bar is proportionally lower. Share buybacks can also inflate EPS growth without reflecting underlying business improvement.
"A minimum increase of at least one-third in per-share earnings over ten years."
✅ Moderate P/E Ratio — 11.5x vs P/E ≤ 15.0x
Graham's 15x P/E threshold was calibrated to 1960s market averages when interest rates were higher. Today's lower rate environment structurally supports higher multiples — the S&P 500 long-run average P/E is now closer to 20–25x. A stock trading at 20x is not automatically speculative in the modern context.
"The price-earnings ratio should be no more than 15 times average earnings."
❌ Moderate Price-to-Book — 1.71x P/B (P/E×P/B: 19.7) vs P/B ≤ 1.5x | P/E × P/B ≤ 22.5
Graham's 1.5x P/B threshold made sense when most company value was tangible. Today, intangible assets — brand, software, patents, network effects — rarely appear on the balance sheet. A high P/B in tech, pharma, or consumer brands often reflects intangible value, not overvaluation. P/FCF or EV/EBITDA are more reliable for asset-light businesses.
"The price should not be more than 1½ times book value. P/E × P/B ≤ 22.5."
Net Current Asset Value
N/A
"Buy at two-thirds of net current assets." — Graham
Earnings Power Value
N/A
Per share, no-growth floor. Compare to current price.
Cash Flow Analysis
Metric 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
Capital Expenditure % of Net Income N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Repurchase of Capital Stock -$3.7B -$1.8B -$2.4B -$2.9B N/A
Free Cash Flow $12.8B $16.2B $12.6B $11.3B N/A
Warren's Owner Earnings N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Peers & Industry
No auto-detected peers for Insurance - Property & Casualty. You can manually compare CB against any stock using the Compare tool.
"The management of a business is its most important single factor — more important than market position, patents, or financial structure."
— Benjamin Graham
Capital Allocation & Alignment
Insider Ownership
9.46%
Moderate — some alignment with shareholders
Return on Equity (ROE)
14.0%
Adequate — returns are moderate
Return on Assets (ROA)
3.8%
Fair — average asset utilization
Share Buybacks (Latest Year)
$3.7B
Management is returning capital to shareholders via buybacks
Debt Trend YoY
+13.5% YoY
Debt is growing — management is leveraging up
Leadership Team
Evan Greenberg
Chairman & CEO
Age 70
Pay: $14,330,454
0.139% of net income
John Keogh
Chairman of North America Insurance, President & COO
Age 60
Pay: $6,082,297
0.059% of net income
Peter Enns
Executive VP & CFO
Age 59
Pay: $3,432,728
0.033% of net income
Juan Luis Ortega Guarderas
Executive VP of Chubb Group & President of North America Insurance
Age 50
Pay: $3,609,533
0.035% of net income
Gordon Mackechnie
VP of Chubb Group, Global Head of Tech, Division President of North America Financial Lines & CTO
Top Institutional Holders
Institution % Owned Shares
Vanguard Group Inc 8.65% 35,819,968
Berkshire Hathaway, Inc 8.27% 34,249,183
Blackrock Inc. 6.83% 28,271,799
State Street Corporation 4.07% 16,845,051
Price (T.Rowe) Associates Inc 3.61% 14,947,799
GQG Partners LLC 3.01% 12,481,176
FMR, LLC 2.64% 10,919,650
Capital World Investors 2.40% 9,935,866
⚠️ Current ratio below 1 — liquidity risk
Risk Analysis
Beta (Market Risk)
0.44
Low volatility — more stable than the market
Short Interest
1.0% of float
Low short interest — market is not heavily bearish
Debt-to-Equity
0.31x
Conservative balance sheet — low financial risk
Current Ratio
0.39x
Weak liquidity — current liabilities exceed current assets
52-Week Price Range
Low: $264.10 Current: $325.12 High: $345.67
Currently at 75% of 52-week range

Chubb Limited (CB) fundamental analysis — Overall grade B based on profitability, financial health, valuation and cash flow. Graham's Fair Value: $331.47. Margin of safety: 1.9%. Gross profit margin: N/A. Operating margin: N/A. Net margin: 17.2%. Market cap: $126.1B. Sector: Financial Services. Industry: Insurance - Property & Casualty. Analysis powered by 360investing — free fundamental stock analysis based on Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett principles.

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