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With many investors looking for income as well as capital gains, we now publish the top ten yielding stocks in certain industries each week. This week we look at Property Insurance (see below for other industries). These stocks have been selected from a screening program. They are not recommendations to buy or sell. If you have an interest in any of them, please investigate them completely before taking any action.
Updated 08/19/10 INDUSTRY: Property Insurance Company | Symbol | Div/Yield | EPS | | Universal Insurance * | UVE | 9.50% | $0.65 | | 21st Century Holding * | TCHC | 6.72% | -$1.84 | | Mercury General Corp. * | MCY | 6.19% | $4.91 | | Bancinsurance Corp. | BCIS | 6.12% | $1.55 | | Scor | SCRYY | 6.00% | -$0.54 | | | Cincinnati Financial | CINF | 5.92% | $3.13 | | OneBeacon Insurance | OB | 5.78% | $1.99 | | National Security Group | NSEC | 4.92% | $2.17 | | Safety Insurance Group | SAFT | 4.83% | $3.64 | | Harleysville Group | HGIC | 4.64% | $2.65 | |
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UVE: a vertically integrated insurance holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, is engaged in insurance underwriting, distribution and claims. UPCIC generates revenue from the collection and investment of premiums. The Company's agency operations, which include Universal Florida Insurance Agency and Coastal Homeowners Insurance Specialists, Inc., generate income from commissions. Universal Risk Advisors, Inc., the Company's managing general agent, generates revenue through policy fee income and other administrative fees from the marketing of UPCIC's insurance products through the Company's distribution network. The Company's primary product is homeowners' insurance. UPCIC's portfolio as of December 31, 2009 includes approximately 531,000 policies with coverage for wind risks and 10,000 policies without wind risks. TCHC: an insurance holding company, which, through its subsidiaries and its contractual relationships with its independent agents and general agents, controls all aspects of the insurance underwriting, distribution and claims processes. The Company is authorized to underwrite homeowners' multi-peril, commercial general liability, personal and commercial automobile, fire, allied lines, surety, commercial multi-peril and inland marine in various states on behalf of its wholly owned subsidiaries, Federated National Insurance Company (Federated National) and American Vehicle Insurance Company (American Vehicle) and other insurance carriers. It markets and distributes its own and third-party insurers' products and its other services through contractual relationships with a network of approximately 4,200 independent agents, of which approximately 300 actively sell and service its products. MCY: primarily engaged in writing automobile insurance in a number of states, principally California. It also writes homeowners, mechanical breakdown, fire, umbrella, and commercial automobile and property insurance. It offers automobile policyholders various types of coverage, such as bodily injury (BI) liability, underinsured and uninsured motorist, personal injury protection (PIP), property damage liability, comprehensive, collision and other hazards. The Company sells its policies through approximately 5,100 independent agents and brokers, of which over 1,000 are located in each of California and Florida. The remaining agents and brokers are located in Georgia, Illinois, Texas, Oklahoma, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, and Michigan.. |
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DISCLAIMER: Dividend yields will differ from these tables due to pricing considerations. The table is generated from data that is not as of the close last Friday. Therefore, when you investigate one of these stocks, expect to see a lower or higher yield. Also, not all stocks are included in this list. There may be more in this industry that have a higher yield but due to the methodology of the screening program, they are not listed.
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