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Helvetia Baloise Holding AGHBAN.SWCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

Switzerland · CHF·Financials›Multi-Line Insurance

Newly merged Swiss insurer (Helvetia + Baloise, completed Dec 2025) offering life, non-life and property insurance across Europe.

≈ Switzerland's newest insurance giant, like a merged Allstate plus a life insurerMomentum neutral 56
Mkt cap
$27.0B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
77%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$27.5M
20-day average traded
P/B
1.80×
price to book
ROE
4.0%
delivered
Implied ROE
4.8%
what the price asks
Next earnings
124 days
10 Mar 2027
Close · CHFCHF 222.00
1D-2.0%
1W+1.4%
1M+8.4%
3M+3.4%
6M+5.0%
YTD+6.1%
1Yn/a
ATR %1.6%
52w lowhigh3.0% off high

What Helvetia Baloise does

Newly merged Swiss insurer (Helvetia + Baloise, completed Dec 2025) offering life, non-life and property insurance across Europe.

Earns premiums on life, pension and non-life cover and investment income on the money it holds, with Switzerland the core market and several neighbouring European countries also important. The merger of Helvetia and Baloise, finalized in December 2025, aims to give it a size in its home market that neither had alone.

In one line: Switzerland's newest insurance giant, like a merged Allstate plus a life insurer.

Products and services

  • Life & pensions
  • Non-life/property-casualty
  • Asset management
  • Banking (Baloise Bank)

Customers

  • Retail and SME policyholders in Switzerland, Germa

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Financial services
  • Insurance
  • Multi-line (life & non-life)

What could go right

  • Merger cost/revenue synergies
  • Larger scale in Swiss home market

What could go wrong

  • Merger integration execution risk
  • Interest-rate/guarantee exposure on the life book

Moat: narrow (scale, distribution, brand). Combined entity is Switzerland's largest multi-line insurer, with about 20% home-market share.

Headquarters: St. Gallen, Switzerland · Founded: 2025 · Employees: 21,138

Named competitors

Helvetia Baloise at a glance

Size Helvetia Baloise (HBAN.SW) is a Switzerland Financials company (Multi-Line Insurance) with a market value of $27.0B, the 20th largest of 158 Switzerland companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at CHF 222.00 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 5.0%, against +14.2% for the median peer and +11.6% for the Switzerland market (cap-weighted) — 8th lowest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 53.7% over the last twelve months (peer median +8.2%); the operating margin is 3.7% (peer median 16.8%).

Valuation It trades at 1.80× book value against a peer median of 1.60× (8th most expensive of 21).

Price implies The share price implies a return on equity of about 4.8%; Helvetia Baloise delivers 4.0%, so the price asks more than the business earns today.

Next results Next results expected around 10 Mar 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

10011011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026Peer median 114HBAN.SW 105
Six months, rebased to 100: Helvetia Baloise against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Helvetia Baloise financials

Reported figures in CHF; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
RevenueCHF 16.9BCHF 11.0BCHF 11.5BCHF 10.5BCHF 8.30B
Revenue growth—-5%+10%+26%—
Net incomeCHF 314MCHF 546MCHF 475MCHF 277MCHF 425M
Free cash flowCHF 226MCHF 1.15B-CHF 149MCHF 498MCHF 669M
Capital expenditureCHF 109MCHF 76.7MCHF 161MCHF 108MCHF 116M
Total debtn/aCHF 6.22BCHF 2.83BCHF 2.77BCHF 2.86B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Helvetia Baloise 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

-20%0%+20%0%+10%WRBCINFAVUNI2378PUKLGEN601336ACGL8630SLFAIGPOWASRNL26018725601319BNTSUNHBAN.SW6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Helvetia Baloise is the large dot.

Fundamentals: return on equity against price-to-book

5%10%15%20%10×20×30×WRBCINFAVUNI2378PUKLGEN6013368630SLFAIGPOWASRNL26018725601319PZUBNTSUNHBAN.SWReturn 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. Helvetia Baloise is the large dot.

Capital: ROE delivered against the ROE the price implies

5%10%15%20%25%10%20%WRBCINFAVUNI2378PUKLGEN601336ACGL8630SLFAIGPOWASRNL8725601319PZUBNTSUNHBAN.SWROE delivered →ROE the price implies →
Above the diagonal = the price asks for a higher return on equity than the business earns today. Helvetia Baloise is the large dot.

Helvetia Baloise competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (HBAN.SW vs ZURN.SW vs SLHN.SW vs ALV.DE)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthROEPrice / bookImplied ROE
Helvetia Baloise HBAN.SW$27.0B+5%+54%4%1.80×4.8%
Zurich Insurance ZURN.SW$114B+16%+19%26%3.67×11.2%
Swiss Life SLHN.SW$33.0B+14%0%20%4.25×15.4%
Allianz ALV.DE$192B+19%+21%21%2.98×16.0%
Axa CS.PA$103B+13%+11%19%2.24×17.8%
Assicurazioni Generali G.MI$73.8B+12%-8%15%2.06×16.5%

How Helvetia Baloise 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.

Helvetia Baloise against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureHBAN.SWPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+8.4%+2.9%5th highest of 21
6-month return+5.0%+14.2%8th lowest of 21
Return on equity4.0%15.6%2nd lowest of 21
Price / book1.80×1.60×8th most expensive of 21
Trailing P/E70.1×10.6×most expensive of 20
ROE the price implies4.8%11.4%least demanding of 21
ROE delivered4.0%15.6%2nd lowest of 21

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthROEPrice / bookImplied ROEDelivered ROE
Helvetia Baloise HBAN.SWSwitzerland$27.0B+5%+54%4%1.80×4.8%4.0%
W. R. Berkley WRBUnited States$27.9B+16%+1%19%2.91×12.8%19.2%
Cincinnati Financial CINFUnited States$28.5B+15%+10%17%1.76×10.6%16.9%
Aviva AV..LUnited Kingdom$29.5B+18%+86%7%2.46×23.8%6.8%
Unipol Assicurazioni UNI.MIItaly$23.8B+13%+7%17%1.62×14.9%16.9%
Prudential 2378.HKHong Kong$30.8B-24%+30%19%1.54×11.3%19.3%
Prudential plc Sponsored ADR PUKUnited States$31.7B-21%+39%19%1.56×11.4%19.2%
Legal & General LGEN.LUnited Kingdom$21.9B+24%+137%26%7.73×70.7%26.2%
New China Life Insurance 601336.SSChina$21.7B-19%+19%22%1.27×13.6%22.4%
Arch Capital ACGLUnited States$36.6B+14%-5%19%1.58×8.3%18.7%
Sompo 8630.TJapan$39.6B+17%+41%15%1.14×6.2%14.6%
Sun Life Financial SLF.TOCanada$40.1B+7%-1%13%2.38×13.7%13.5%
American International AIGUnited States$40.7B+2%+1%8%1.04×7.5%8.2%
Power Corporation of Canada POW.TOCanada$40.7B+16%+10%11%2.42×15.9%11.0%
ASR Nederland ASRNL.ASNetherlands$17.3B+14%+6%13%1.74×8.3%13.1%
China Pacific Insurance (Group) 2601.HKHong Kong$42.5B-22%+9%14%0.69×8.4%14.4%
Ms&ad Ins Gp Hldgs 8725.TJapan$44.4B+22%+21%17%1.07×6.9%16.6%
People's Insurance Co. (Group) of China 601319.SSChina$44.4B+1%+4%10%0.96×6.0%9.7%
Powszechny Zaklad Ubezpieczen Spolka Akcyjna PZU.WAPoland$16.1B+15%+1%20%1.83×19.5%19.5%
Brookfield Wealth Solutions BNT.TOCanada$14.9B-8%-18%1%0.70×9.4%0.7%
Suncorp SUN.AXAustralia$14.9B+21%-3%10%2.08×11.7%9.8%

Questions

Who are Helvetia Baloise's main competitors?
Named competitors: Zurich Insurance Group (ZURN.SW), Swiss Life Holding (SLHN.SW), Allianz (ALV.DE), AXA (CS.PA), Generali (G.MI). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes W. R. Berkley (WRB), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Aviva (AV..L), Unipol Assicurazioni (UNI.MI), Prudential (2378.HK), Prudential plc Sponsored ADR (PUK).
Is Helvetia Baloise expensive compared with its peers?
On price / book it trades at 1.80× against a peer median of 1.60×, 8th most expensive of 21 in its peer set. The share price implies a return on equity of about 4.8%; Helvetia Baloise delivers 4.0%, so the price asks more than the business earns today.
How has Helvetia Baloise stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +5.0% against +14.2% for the median peer.

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.