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Essent Group Ltd.

FinancialsInsurance
Ticker ESNTHAMILTON, D0Fiscal year ends DecemberBook value per share $60.45Diluted shares 91.9M

Essent Group Ltd. (NYSE: ESNT) provides private mortgage insurance and reinsurance, title insurance, and settlement services to mortgage lenders, borrowers, and investors. Its Mortgage Insurance segment insures U.S. residential first-lien mortgages, primarily low-down-payment loans, and offers credit risk management… From the company’s description.

Over the twelve months to Sep 30, 2026, Essent Group Ltd. reported revenue of $1.39B, up 9.6% from a year earlier, and net income of $679.87M. Its operating margin was 61.7%, and operations generated $857.24M in cash. In fiscal 2025, it reported revenue of $1.26B, up 1.5% from fiscal 2024, and net income of $689.97M.

Fiscal year 2025 · ends 12-31Changes are against fiscal 2024The amber dot is the latest twelve months, to 2026-09-30
Sales & profitability
$1.26BFY2025
+1.5% year over year
Last 12 mo $1.39B
67.84%FY2025
−4 percentage points
Last 12 mo 61.74%
$689.97MFY2025
−5.4% year over year
Last 12 mo $679.87M
11.99%FY2025
−1 percentage points
Last 12 mo 12.24%
Cash & financing
$856.05MFY2025
−0.6% year over year
Last 12 mo $857.24M
$848.69MFY2025
−0.7% year over year
Last 12 mo $853.15M
0.09FY2025
Was 0.09× a year earlier
Last 12 mo 0.09
100.0MFY2025
−6.1% year over year
Last 12 mo 91.9M

Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure. is shown separately from the annual figures.

What Essent Group Ltd. does

In the company’s own words

Essent Group Ltd. (NYSE: ESNT) provides private mortgage insurance and reinsurance, title insurance, and settlement services to mortgage lenders, borrowers, and investors. Its Mortgage Insurance segment insures U.S. residential first-lien mortgages, primarily low-down-payment loans, and offers credit risk management services, including contract underwriting. Its Reinsurance segment reinsures U.S. mortgage risk, including through credit risk transfer transactions, and provides underwriting consulting to third-party reinsurers. Title insurance and settlement services, offered directly and through agents, are included in Corporate and Other. Essent operates through subsidiaries including Essent Guaranty, Essent Re, and Essent Title; its title business expanded through acquisitions in 2023. As of December 31, 2025, the company had approximately $248.4 billion of mortgage insurance in force, and Essent Re covered approximately $2.3 billion of risk. During 2025, it wrote approximately $46.6 billion of new private mortgage insurance. Its website is www.essentgroup.com.

Company details
Sector
Financials
Industry (SIC)
Insurance
Headquarters
HAMILTON, D0
Fiscal year end
December
CIK
1448893
SIC
6351

Financial performance, year by year

Fiscal 2014–2025 · USD
$-138.53M$277.07M$692.67M$1.11B$1.52B201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025Last 12 moLast 12 monthsLast 12 months

The full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.

Ownership

Who owns Essent Group Ltd. — and what changed

Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30

145
funds hold it
0 of 35
superinvestors hold it
$1.26B
held by funds, at market
22.9%
of shares held by funds
1
bond issues held by funds

Largest fund holders · Essent Group Ltd.’s weight in each

VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND
VTI · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.01%of fund net assets
VANGUARD EQUITY INCOME FUND
VEIPX · VANGUARD FENWAY FUNDS
0.20%of fund net assets
VANGUARD SMALL-CAP INDEX FUND
VB · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.07%of fund net assets
Avantis U.S. Small Cap Value ETF
AVUV · American Century ETF Trust
—of fund net assets
VANGUARD SMALL-CAP VALUE INDEX FUND
VBR · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.12%of fund net assets

Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.

Essent Group Ltd.’s bonds, as funds hold them

Funds report holding 1 issues of Essent Group Ltd.’s debt, $163.95M at market value — what funds hold, not the company’s total debt. Weighted-average coupon 6.25%, maturing 2029 to 2029.

Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.

Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.

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