Markel is a financial holding company. Co.'s main business markets and underwrites specialty insurance products. Co.'s insurance business operations include: Underwriting, which comprised of insurance and reinsurance operations; Insurance-linked securities (ILS), which include insurance and investment fund managers that provides investment products such as ILS and catastrophe bonds; and Program services, which writes insurance products including general liability insurance. Co.'s investing activities are related to its underwriting operations. Through its subsidiary, Markel Ventures, Inc. Co. owns interests in various businesses that operate outside of the specialty insurance marketplace. The MKL stock yearly return is shown above.
The yearly return on the MKL stock yearly return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the annual return over the calendar year 2021 for the given stock.
When performing this calculation it is important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's annual return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon.
One way to factor dividends into the return is simply to count them as cash — we don't do
that here. Instead, our website aims to empower investors
by performing the MKL annual return calculation with any dividends reinvested as applicable (on ex-dates).
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