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American Financial Group Inc. AFG

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$8.2B
▼ 1.8% YoY
$842.0M
▼ 5.1% YoY
In brief

What this company does

Through the operations of Great American Insurance Group, AFG is engaged in property and casualty insurance, focusing on specialized commercial products for businesses. Its property and casualty insurance operations provide a wide range of commercial coverages through 36 insurance businesses that, as of December 31, 2025, made up the Great American Insurance Group. As of December 31, 2025, the Company had approximately 8,500 employees, including approximately 7,700 employed at Great American Insurance Group. In 2025, its property and casualty insurance operations reported net written premiums of $2,771 million from Property and Transportation, $3,247 million from Specialty Casualty and $1,092 million from Specialty Financial. The members of Great American Insurance Group have been in business for over 150 years.

Written from the business description in AMERICAN FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 25 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 8.2B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 8.2 · Net income 0.8
4B8B2008201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
+5.1%
+7.2%
+2.9%
+4.1%
−2.1%
+2.8%
+9.1%
+3.8%
−1.4%
+4.2%
+9.8%
+5.7%
−20.2%
+13.6%
+13.6%
+18.4%
−17.0%
+2.1%
+11.1%
+5.2%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +7.2% a year over five years — but profit grew slower: net income at +2.8%, earnings per share at +4.2%.

The share count fell from 0.09B to 0.08B — the buyback concentrates the same profit into fewer slices.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability
10 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 13.1% · Net 10.3%
10%20%30%2008201120142017202020232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 18.1%
10%20%30%2008201120142017202020232025

Each USD of equity produced 18 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 693.0M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Net buybacks $B Dividends $B
FY2025 · Dividends 0.6 · Net buybacks 0.1
1B2BDividendsNet buybacks2008201120142017202020232025

USD 606.0M in dividends and USD 87.0M in buybacks — 82% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 32.6B
EquityUSD 4.8B
CashUSD 1.7B
Gross debtUSD 1.8B
Net debtUSD 93.0M

Net debt stands at 2% of equity.

The 18-year record
18 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008
Revenue $B8.28.37.87.06.65.86.27.26.96.56.15.75.15.04.64.54.34.3
Operating income $B1.11.11.11.11.30.30.60.60.70.80.60.60.70.50.60.70.80.3
EBITDA $B1.21.21.21.21.50.60.90.80.80.90.70.80.80.80.70.91.00.5
Income tax $B0.20.20.20.20.30.00.10.10.20.10.20.20.20.10.20.30.30.1
Net income $B0.80.90.90.92.00.70.90.50.50.60.40.50.50.50.30.50.50.2
EPS, diluted $10.0810.5710.0510.5323.308.209.855.855.287.333.944.975.165.093.324.364.451.67
Dividend / sh $7.289.438.1014.3128.063.854.954.454.792.152.031.911.800.970.660.570.520.50
Payout %72898013511946497488295037341820131226
ROE %18.120.320.519.833.811.216.010.39.313.77.49.510.310.97.711.713.7·
Shares out B0.080.080.080.090.080.090.090.090.090.090.090.090.090.090.100.110.11·

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 53 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of 19 fiscal years. 4 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityFire, Marine & Casualty Insurance
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inOhio
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2008

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