Markel Corporation (MKL): Price and Financial Metrics

MKL POWR Grades

• MKL scores best on the Sentiment dimension, with a Sentiment rank ahead of 88.27% of US stocks.
• MKL's strongest trending metric is Momentum; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• MKL ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 4th percentile.

MKL Stock Summary

• With a market capitalization of $20,301,801,550, Markel Corp has a greater market value than 87.72% of US stocks.
• In terms of twelve month growth in earnings before interest and taxes, Markel Corp is reporting a growth rate of 183.32%; that's higher than 88.85% of US stocks.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, MKL is more volatile than only 9.4% of stocks we're observing.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to MKL, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are LUV, WPP, CCEP, VIV, and AEG.
• MKL's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Markel Corp's official web site, go to www.markel.com.

MKL Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Financial Services stock, MKL's price/earnings ratio is 40% lower, now standing at 6.6.
• Over the past 243 months, MKL's EV/EBIT ratio has gone down 77.7.
• MKL's price/sales ratio has moved up 0.1 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for MKL.

MKL Growth Metrics

Its year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 50.64%.
• The 5 year price growth rate now stands at -1.18%.
• Its year over year price growth rate is now at 29.81%.

MKL's revenue has moved up $3,885,480,000 over the prior 15 months.

The table below shows MKL's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	12,846.42	2,274.067	2,389.003
2021-09-30	12,443.97	2,098.441	2,364.773
2021-06-30	12,668.35	2,062.018	2,629.429
2021-03-31	12,299.59	1,990.033	2,777.087
2020-12-31	9,735.066	1,737.587	797.63
2020-09-30	8,960.945	1,823.75	479.835

MKL's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• MKL has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 51.56% of graded US stocks.
• MKL's asset turnover comes in at 0.297 -- ranking 57th of 133 Insurance stocks.
• BRK.B, ORI, and GBLI are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with MKL.

The table below shows MKL's key quality metrics over time.