Business
Essent Group Ltd. Announces First Quarter 2026 Results and Declares Quarterly Dividend
HAMILTON, Bermuda, May 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Essent Group Ltd. (NYSE: ESNT) today reported net income for the quarter ended March 31, 2026 of $171.8 million or $1.82 per diluted share, compared to $175.4 million or $1.69 per diluted share for the quarter ended March 31, 2025. Essent also announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.35 per common share. The dividend is payable on June 10, 2026 to shareholders of record on June 1, 2026. “We are pl
About this update from Essent Group Ltd.
[{"type":"image","alt":"Essent Group","displaySize":"","headline":null,"caption":"Essent Group","className":"","disableSlideshowImg":false,"size":{"original":{"width":300,"height":102,"url":"https://media.zenfs.com/en/globenewswire.com/7ddb291342cd937991acf16479d21eb4"},"resized":{"url":"https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/HzH2bOUMtX4yUBNL9PXjBA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTQyMDtoPTE0Mw--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/globenewswire.com/7ddb291342cd937991acf16479d21eb4","width":300,"height":102},"resize_sm":{"url":"https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/HzH2bOUMtX4yUBNL9PXjBA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTQyMDtoPTE0Mw--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/globenewswire.com/7ddb291342cd937991acf16479d21eb4","width":300,"height":102}},"lazy":false},{"type":"text","content":"HAMILTON, Bermuda, May 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Essent Group Ltd. (NYSE: ESNT) today reported net income for the quarter ended March 31, 2026 of $171.8 million or $1.82 per diluted share, compared to $175.4 million or $1.69 per diluted share for the quarter ended March 31, 2025.","length":283,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"Essent also announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.35 per common share. The dividend is payable on June 10, 2026 to shareholders of record on June 1, 2026.","length":205,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"“We are pleased with our first quarter 2026 financial results, which continued to benefit from favorable credit trends and the impact of interest rates on both persistency and investment income,” said Mark A. Casale, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “The strong cash flow generation from our core mortgage insurance business and the strength of our buy, manage and distribute operating model have enabled us to take a balanced approach to capital management.”","length":464,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"Financial Highlights: ","length":21,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"list","items":[{"val":[{"type":"text","content":"Mortgage new insurance written for the first quarter of 2026 was $11.1 billion, compared to $11.8 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025 and $9.9 billion in the first quarter of 2025.","length":182,"tagName":"p"}]},{"val":[{"type":"text","content":"Mortgage insurance in force as of March 31, 2026 was $247.9 billion, compared to $248.4 billion as of December 31, 2025 and $244.7 billion as of March 31, 2025....