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Globe Life GL Material Reconciling Items — Policyholder Benefits And Claims Incurred Net

Discontinued — last reported Q4 '17

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Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$1.6B+5.3%
Net income$270.5M+6.3%
EPS (diluted)$3.39+12.6%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$255.2M+9.9%
Total debt$3.2B-1.3%
Total equity$6.1B+12.1%
Total assets$31.0B+4.2%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$420.9M-2.5%
CapEx$24.9M+112%
Free cash flow$396.0M-5.7%

Valuation

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Market cap$13.26B-0.4%
Enterprise value$16.24B-0.8%
P/E11.3×-1.2×
P/S2.2×-0.1×

Profitability

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Net margin19.4%+1.0pp
FCF margin20.2%-3.9pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity20.5%0.0pp
Debt / equity0.5×-0.1×

Where this comes from

Reported directly by Globe Life in its filing.

Tagged under the XBRL concept us-gaap:PolicyholderBenefitsAndClaimsIncurredNet.

The official record: Globe Life’s 10-K, filed February 27, 2018, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

Questions, answered.

What does material reconciling items — policyholder benefits and claims incurred net mean?
Net corporate-level adjustments to insurance claims and benefit expenses that are not allocated to individual business segments.
How do you interpret material reconciling items — policyholder benefits and claims incurred net?
An increase may indicate higher-than-expected corporate-level claims or accounting adjustments, potentially signaling a need for deeper investigation into consolidated loss ratios.
How does material reconciling items — policyholder benefits and claims incurred net compare across companies?
Similar to unallocated corporate insurance reserves or non-segment specific claims adjustments found in other large insurance holding companies.