Essent PE ratio ESNT

Share price divided by earnings per share over the last twelve months, since 2015.

Today, Oct 23, 2026: 9.3×
10-year median: 8.8×
Against its 10-year history: 64th; percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
10-year range: 3.8× to 16.4×
Peer median: 9.0×

Essent's PE ratio is 9.3× as of Oct 23, 2026: a share price of $66.80 against $7.17 of earnings per share over the last twelve months.

That is above its ten-year median of 8.8×, close to the middle of its last ten years.

Over that time it ranged from 3.8× in Apr 2020 to 16.4× in Feb 2017.

The median for 5 specialty insurers of a similar size is 9.0×.

PE ratio over time

median 8.8×

The dashed line is the 10-year median and the shaded band the middle half of its days.

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Year by year

Year	End of year	Low	High
2026 so far	9.3×	8.2×	9.8×
2025	9.6×	7.9×	9.6×
2024	7.8×	7.7×	9.5×
2023	8.5×	4.8×	8.5×
2022	4.9×	4.3×	8.9×
2021	8.2×	7.6×	13.6×
2020	10.1×	3.8×	10.7×
2019	9.6×	6.9×	10.4×
2018	6.5×	6.2×	16.4×
2017	14.5×	13.0×	16.4×
2016	14.6×	10.8×	15.1×
2015	14.0×	14.0×	25.2×

Against its peers

Companies in Insurance - Specialty nearest Essent's size, closest first, today.

Company	PE ratio
ESNTEssent	9.3×
MTGMgic Investment	9.0×
RDNRadian	9.2×
ORIOld Republic International	8.5×
NMIHNMI	8.4×
AGOAssured Guaranty	9.3×
Peer median	9.0×

Where Essent ranks

#63of 490Financial stocks with the lowest PE ratio

What the PE ratio tells you

Share price divided by earnings per share over the last twelve months. It is the price tag on a dollar of profit: 20× means you pay $20 for $1 of yearly earnings.

Blank while earnings are negative. A very low PE can mean the market expects profits to fall, so read it with growth and the company's own history.

More on Essent

Valuation data, not investment advice. Prices as of Oct 23, 2026. Reported figures come from the company's filings with the SEC.