Markel forward PE MKL

Share price divided by analysts' consensus earnings for the next twelve months, since 1996.

Today, Oct 23, 2026: 16.2×
10-year median: 21.9×
Against its 10-year history: 3rd; percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
10-year range: 15.0× to 394×
Peer median: 15.3×

Markel's forward PE is 16.2× as of Oct 23, 2026.

That is below its ten-year median of 21.9×, lower than on 97% of days in the last ten years.

Over that time it ranged from 15.0× in Sep 2026 to 394× in Mar 2017.

The median for 10 property and casualty insurers of a similar size is 15.3×.

Forward PE over time

median 21.9×

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	16.2×	15.0×	19.0×
2025	19.4×	17.3×	21.7×
2024	20.5×	17.5×	23.9×
2023	22.9×	19.3×	26.2×
2022	18.4×	16.5×	21.8×
2021	18.5×	18.1×	22.9×
2020	22.5×	20.4×	47.5×
2019	40.8×	27.7×	42.7×
2018	33.5×	32.2×	40.2×
2017	35.2×	32.8×	394×
2016	36.5×	31.0×	41.9×
2015	32.9×	28.8×	34.6×
2014	29.5×	24.2×	30.5×
2013	25.9×	20.6×	31.7×
2012	28.4×	25.7×	51.9×
2011	26.6×	23.5×	30.1×
2010	26.9×	20.1×	27.0×
2009	21.1×	11.6×	21.3×
2008	14.6×	12.8×	25.1×
2007	18.1×	14.7×	18.2×

Against its peers

Companies in Insurance - Property & Casualty nearest Markel's size, closest first, today.

Company	Forward PE
MKLMarkel	16.2×
LLoews	n/m
CINFCincinnati Financial	19.8×
WRBW. R. Berkley	15.3×
EGEverest	n/m
RNRRenaissancere	n/m
CNACNA Financial	n/m
AFGAmerican Financial	n/m
ALLAllstate	8.8×
KNSLKinsale Capital	n/m
THGHanover Insurance	n/m
Peer median	15.3×

Where Markel ranks

#44of 69Financial stocks with the lowest forward PE

What the forward PE tells you

Price divided by what analysts expect the company to earn over the next twelve months. It answers "what am I paying for next year" instead of last year.

Estimates are opinions. When forward PE is far below trailing PE, analysts expect a big jump in earnings. If that jump slips, the stock was not as cheap as it looked.

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