UNIVERSAL INSURANCE HOLDINGS INC (UVE) Q4 2025 Earnings Call

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Universal's fourth quarter 2025 earnings conference call. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Arash Soleimani, Chief Strategy Officer. Good morning. Thank you for joining us today. Welcome to our quarterly earnings call. On the call with me today are Steve Donaghy, Chief Executive Officer, and Frank Wilcox, Chief Financial Officer. Before we begin, please note today's discussion may contain forward-looking statements and non-GAAP financial measures. Forward-looking statements involve assumptions, risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those statements. For more information, please see the press release on Universal's SEC filings all of which are available on the investor section of our website at universalinsuranceholdings.com and on the SEC's website. A reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures to comparable GAAP measures is included in the quarterly press release and can also be found on Universal's website at universalinsuranceholdings.com. With that, I'll turn the call over to Steve. Thanks, Arash. Good morning, everyone. We had an outstanding quarter with an adjusted return on common equity of over 46%, and results were solid across the board. I'm deeply proud of the progress we made in 2025. We're continuing to see the benefits of Florida's legislative reforms, which have visibly stabilized the market, benefiting all stakeholders. Our capital position is robust, and I believe our reserves are the strongest they've been in our history. We are already well underway negotiating and placing our 2026 reinsurance program with a substantial portion of our first event catastrophe tower already placed a...