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Axis Capital Holdings Ltd. AXS

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$6.6B
▲ 10.2% YoY
$1.0B
▼ 6.7% YoY
In brief

What this company does

AXIS Capital Holdings Limited is a global specialty underwriter and provider of insurance and reinsurance solutions with operations in Bermuda, the United States, Europe, Singapore and Canada. At December 31, 2025, the company had common shareholders' equity of $5.8 billion, total capital of $7.7 billion and total assets of $34.5 billion. At December 31, 2025, it had 1,966 employees. Its underwriting operations are organized around two global platforms, AXIS Insurance and AXIS Re, and it has determined that it has two reportable segments, insurance and reinsurance.

Written from the business description in AXIS CAPITAL HOLDINGS LTD's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 27 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 6.6B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 6.6 · Net income 1.0
2.5B5.0B2008201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
+8.5%
+6.3%
+4.7%
+4.2%
+65.4%
+4.6%
+1.1%
+76.4%
+7.4%
+4.9%
+0.6%
+1.3%
+3.7%
+4.9%
+77.5%
+48.7%
+9.2%
+1.6%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +6.3% a year over five years.

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
15 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 18.7% · Net 15.4%
10%20%-5%2008201120142017202020232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 16.2%
5%10%15%-2%-4%-6%2008201120142017202020232025
Gross margin—
Operating margin18.7%
Net margin15.4%
Return on assets3.0%
EBITDA—

Each USD of equity produced 16 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 1.0B
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 142.7 · Net buybacks 887.7
400M800MDividendsNet buybacks2008201120142017202020232025
Dividends paidUSD 142.7M
Net buybacksUSD 887.7M
Share of profit102.1%
Consecutive raises—

USD 142.7M in dividends and USD 887.7M in buybacks — 102% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.

Total assetsUSD 34.5B
EquityUSD 6.4B
CashUSD 820.3M
Gross debtUSD 1.3B
Net debtUSD 496.5M

Net debt stands at 8% 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 $B6.66.05.65.15.34.85.25.14.64.04.14.34.23.93.83.62.82.8
Operating income $B1.21.00.40.20.7−0.10.30.0−0.40.50.60.8·0.60.10.9··
EBITDA $B··················
Income tax $B0.2−0.10.00.00.1−0.00.0−0.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Net income $B1.01.10.40.20.6−0.10.30.0−0.40.50.60.80.70.50.00.90.50.4
EPS, diluted $12.3512.354.022.256.90−1.793.340.00−4.945.086.047.295.934.000.076.023.072.26
Dividend / sh $1.761.761.761.731.691.651.611.571.531.431.221.101.020.970.930.860.810.76
Payout %1414416724−11842310−372618151622446132327
ROE %16.219.17.64.411.6−2.26.10.8−6.48.511.013.912.59.80.815.2··
Shares out B0.070.080.090.080.080.080.080.080.080.090.100.100.110.120.130.110.13·

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 52 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of 19 fiscal years. 5 checks could not be computed.

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

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