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Erie IndemnityERIECompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Financials›Property/Casualty Insurance

Manages and services the Erie Insurance Exchange (not underwriting risk itself), earning a management fee on premiums.

Momentum leader 87
Mkt cap
$12.7B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
54%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$57.0M
20-day average traded
P/B
4.98×
price to book
ROE
23.7%
delivered
Implied ROE
19.7%
what the price asks
Next earnings
115 days
1 Mar 2027
Close · USD$273.07
1D-4.4%
1W+4.5%
1M+20.5%
3M+8.2%
6M+26.5%
YTD-3.7%
1Y-4.2%
ATR %3.5%
Beta-0.36
52w lowhigh8.5% off high

What Erie Indemnity does

Manages and services the Erie Insurance Exchange (not underwriting risk itself), earning a management fee on premiums.

Collects a management fee set as a share of the premiums the Erie Insurance Exchange writes, plus fees for related services, while the Exchange, which policyholders own, carries the insurance risk. Pennsylvania insurance regulators cap the share the company may take.

Products and services

  • Policy issuance/service management
  • Claims-handling services
  • Sales/marketing support

Customers

  • Erie Insurance Exchange (the reciprocal it manages
  • Independent insurance agents

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Financials
  • Insurance services
  • Attorney-in-fact management for a…

What could go right

  • Growth in premiums written by the Erie Exchange (fee base)
  • Independent-agent channel expansion into new states

What could go wrong

  • Fee revenue tied entirely to the Exchange's premium growth
  • Regulatory limits on the management fee percentage

Moat: wide (regulatory licence, switching costs, installed base). Exclusive, long-term management contract with the Erie Insurance Exchange is essentially impossible for a rival to displace.

Headquarters: Erie, Pennsylvania, United States · Founded: 1925 · Employees: 6,667

Named competitors

Erie Indemnity at a glance

Size Erie Indemnity (ERIE) is a United States Financials company (Property/Casualty Insurance) with a market value of $12.7B, the 669th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $273.07 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 26.5%, against +17.3% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 5th highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 2.0% over the last twelve months (peer median +3.1%); the operating margin is 17.7% (peer median 14.0%).

Valuation It trades at 4.98× book value against a peer median of 2.04× (4th most expensive of 21).

Price implies The share price implies a return on equity of about 19.7%; Erie Indemnity delivers 23.7%, so the price asks less than the business earns today.

Short interest Short interest is 5.4% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 1 Mar 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

10012011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026ERIE 126Peer median 117
Six months, rebased to 100: Erie Indemnity against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Erie Indemnity financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$4.12B$4.07B$3.79B$3.26B$2.82B
Revenue growth—+7%+16%+15%—
Gross profit$735M$718M$676M$511M$360M
EBITDA$811M$796M$744M$568M$401M
Net income$576M$559M$600M$446M$299M
Free cash flow$554M$571M$486M$289M$299M
Capital expenditure$138M$116M$125M$92.6M$67.2M
Total debt$0$0$0$0$0

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Erie Indemnity competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

0%+10%+20%+30%0%+10%+20%AFGRNRIAGAIZADM000810THGLSCRMKLDFYHGTYSIGIMTGQBESAMPOMCYHIGARXERIE6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Erie Indemnity is the large dot.

Fundamentals: return on equity against price-to-book

10%20%30%40%2.50×50×7.50×AFGRNRIAGAIZEGADM000810THGLSCRDFYHGTYSIGIQBESAMPOMCYARXERIEReturn on equity →Price / book →
A bank or insurer earning more on its equity usually trades at a higher multiple of book; points far above the trend are priced for more. Erie Indemnity is the large dot.

Capital: ROE delivered against the ROE the price implies

-400%-300%-200%-100%0%-400%-200%0%RNRIAGADMHGTYARXERIEROE delivered →ROE the price implies →
Above the diagonal = the price asks for a higher return on equity than the business earns today. Erie Indemnity is the large dot.

Erie Indemnity competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (ERIE vs PGR vs ALL vs TRV)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthROEPrice / bookImplied ROE
Erie Indemnity ERIE$12.7B+26%+2%24%4.98×19.7%
Progressive PGR$132B+17%+8%33%3.82×15.8%
Allstate ALL$64.4B+20%+6%46%2.04×9.9%
Travelers Companies (The) TRV$81.0B+33%+1%28%2.79×13.9%
Cincinnati Financial CINF$28.5B+15%+10%17%1.76×10.6%
Hanover Insurance THG$8.35B+28%+5%22%2.43×11.2%

How Erie Indemnity compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Erie Indemnity against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureERIEPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+20.5%+9.3%2nd highest of 21
6-month return+26.5%+17.3%5th highest of 21
Return on equity23.7%14.4%4th highest of 21
Price / book4.98×2.04×4th most expensive of 21
Trailing P/E25.0×12.6×2nd most expensive of 19
ROE the price implies19.7%11.2%4th most demanding of 21
ROE delivered23.7%14.0%4th highest of 20

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthROEPrice / bookImplied ROEDelivered ROE
Erie Indemnity ERIEUnited States$12.7B+26%+2%24%4.98×19.7%23.7%
American Financial AFGUnited States$12.8B+18%+3%18%2.67×15.1%n/a
RenaissanceRe RNRUnited States$14.0B+16%-21%13%1.34×7.5%13.4%
Insurance Australia IAG.AXAustralia$14.4B+17%+9%14%2.87×13.1%14.0%
Assurant AIZUnited States$15.1B+29%+9%44%2.60×14.6%44.2%
Everest EGUnited States$15.2B+18%-9%13%1.08×6.6%12.8%
Admiral ADM.LUnited Kingdom$16.1B+23%0%46%8.04×33.5%45.6%
SamsungF&MIns 000810.KSSouth Korea$17.2B+31%+5%8%0.71×4.8%8.1%
Hanover Insurance THGUnited States$8.35B+28%+5%22%2.43×11.2%21.8%
Loews LUnited States$22.2B+5%+3%8%1.22×8.3%8.1%
Scor SCR.PAFrance$6.96B+10%-4%19%1.44×9.8%18.8%
Markel MKLUnited States$23.7B+7%-1%10%1.28×9.2%9.6%
Definity Financial DFY.TOCanada$6.47B+14%+35%12%2.13×7.6%11.7%
Hagerty HGTYUnited States$6.18B+79%+1%5%8.42×53.7%4.6%
Selective Insurance SIGIUnited States$5.87B+17%+4%15%1.81×9.1%14.7%
MGIC Investment MTGUnited States$5.87B+7%-2%14%1.18×8.9%13.9%
QBE Insurance QBE.AXAustralia$27.7B+19%+3%19%2.37×11.3%19.1%
Sampo SAMPO.HEFinland$29.1B+10%+2%16%3.60×11.3%16.5%
Mercury General MCYUnited States$4.58B-17%+5%26%1.63×13.7%25.5%
Hartford (The) HIGUnited States$35.8B+1%+4%23%1.94×11.3%22.7%
Accelerant ARXUnited States$4.32B+19%+55%-380%6.01×23.2%-380.1%

Questions

Who are Erie Indemnity's main competitors?
Named competitors: State Farm (mutual, private) (private or unlisted), Nationwide (mutual, private) (private or unlisted), Progressive (PGR), Allstate (ALL), Travelers (TRV), Cincinnati Financial (CINF). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes American Financial (AFG), RenaissanceRe (RNR), Insurance Australia (IAG.AX), Assurant (AIZ), Everest (EG), Admiral (ADM.L).
Is Erie Indemnity expensive compared with its peers?
On price / book it trades at 4.98× against a peer median of 2.04×, 4th most expensive of 21 in its peer set. The share price implies a return on equity of about 19.7%; Erie Indemnity delivers 23.7%, so the price asks less than the business earns today.
How has Erie Indemnity stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +26.5% against +17.3% for the median peer; over one year -4.2%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.