ASSURANT, INC.

AIZdata completeness 88%19 fiscal years on file
The thesis, from the filings

ASSURANT, INC. earns about 21% on invested capital, far above its ~9% cost of capital, and has bought back 15% of its shares over 5 years — the marks of a durable business run for its owners. The estimate methods put fair value between $154.2 and $1,333.41 a share.Whether it’s worth owning at today’s price is the last question — and yours to answer, below.

i. The business — what you’d actually own
FigureFY 2021FY 2022FY 2023FY 2024FY 2025
Revenue$10.2B1$10.2B2$11.1B3$11.9B3$12.8B3
Net income$1.36B4$276.6M5$642.5M6$760.2M6$872.7M6
Operating cash flow$781.7M7$596.9M8$1.14B9$1.33B9$1.83B9
Capital expenditure$187.4M10$186.3M11$202.5M12$221.3M12$235.5M12
Free cash flow (derived)$594.3M7$410.6M8$935.6M9$1.11B9$1.6B9
Total debt
Cash & equivalents$2.04B13$1.54B14$1.63B15$1.81B16$1.83B16
Diluted shares60.1M54.8M53.2M52.1M51.1M

Superscripts are receipts. Each links to the SEC filing the number came from (full list at the bottom).

ii. Your slice — ownership made literal
If you owned
shares
Net assets behind them
$1,149.34
your share of equity
Profit it earned you last year
$170.83
Free cash flow it threw off
$312.88
Debt you’d be carrying

10 shares is a claim on $1,149.34 of net worth that earned you $170.83 and generated $312.88 of cash last year.

iii. Is this a good business?
Moat signal · return on invested capital
21% avg · 5y
FY21 20%FY22 13%FY23 23%FY24 26%FY25 24%

It earned about 21% on invested capital, year after year, against a ~9% cost of capital — the footprint of real pricing power. Competition usually drags returns like this back down; here it hasn't.

seeing a moat in the numbers →
Management signal · capital allocation
−15% shares · 5y

Share count is down 15% over 5 years — management has been buying back stock, quietly handing owners a bigger slice.

reading capital allocation →

Signals, not verdicts — read from the filings above. Numbers don’t prove a moat; they show its footprint. You decide.

iv. What it’s worth — engine v0.1.0

The 3 estimate methods that apply put fair value between $154.2 and $1,333.41 a share. They rest on different assumptions, so where they diverge is the story; the Graham Number is a stricter floor, not a target.

DCF · Growth Exit 10Y
$1,333.41
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears10
  • fcfGrowth20.0%
  • fcfBase$1.11B
DCF · Growth Exit 5Y
$745.2
assumptions (10)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • terminalGrowth2.5%
  • projectionYears5
  • fcfGrowth20.0%
  • fcfBase$1.11B
Earnings Power Value
$154.2
assumptions (8)
  • riskFreeRate4.7%
  • equityRiskPremium5.0%
  • beta100.0%
  • equityWeight85.0%
  • costOfDebtSpread1.5%
  • taxRate21.0%
  • normalizedEarnings$760.2M
  • growthAssumed0.0%
Graham Number
$209.24
assumptions (1)
  • grahamMultiplier2250.0%

Different models answer different questions — which to trust when →

v. The price question — last, on purpose
Is today’s price fair?
See live price ↗
Type a price. The ledger answers.
Or set your own belief
FCF growth, next 5 years20.0%
Discount rate (WACC)8.93%
Terminal growth2.5%
At your growth, a share is worth $745.2
The three cases
Bear0.0%$346.73
Base20.0%$745.2
Bull20.0%$745.2

Bear/base/bull growth = 0% / filed history / history + 5pp. Type a price to see the return each case implies.

Default growth 20.0%= this company’s own filed history (median-to-median FCF CAGR, clamped 0–20%). Your adjustments are recorded anonymously. They become the “what do owners actually believe” dataset.

Sources — the receipts
  1. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001267238-24-000008 (Revenues)
  2. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001267238-25-000008 (Revenues)
  3. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001267238-26-000010 (Revenues)
  4. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001267238-24-000008 (NetIncomeLoss)
  5. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001267238-25-000008 (NetIncomeLoss)
  6. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001267238-26-000010 (NetIncomeLoss)
  7. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001267238-24-000008 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  8. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001267238-25-000008 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  9. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001267238-26-000010 (NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities)
  10. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001267238-24-000008 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  11. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001267238-25-000008 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  12. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001267238-26-000010 (PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment)
  13. 10-K · period ending 2021-12-31 · accession 0001267238-23-000007 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  14. 10-K · period ending 2022-12-31 · accession 0001267238-24-000008 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  15. 10-K · period ending 2023-12-31 · accession 0001267238-25-000008 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)
  16. 10-K · period ending 2024-12-31 · accession 0001267238-26-000010 (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue)