1. AM Best upgraded GLRE's Financial Strength Rating to A from A-. 2. GLRE's operating performance has improved steadily in recent years. 3. Record underwriting results in 2025 reflect strategic efforts. 4. AM Best assesses GLRE's balance sheet strength as very strong. 5. Investment results are stabilizing and contributing positively to net income.
The upgrades from AM Best signal a positive outlook for GLRE, historically strong ratings lead to increased investor confidence and potential price appreciation. Similar upgrades in financial sectors have often resulted in favorable stock price movements.
The positive ratings upgrade directly impacts GLRE's financial health perception, enhancing its appeal to investors and potentially driving stock price higher.
Immediate effects are likely as the market reacts to the ratings upgrade, historically, stock prices of financial institutions often respond quickly to positive credit rating changes.
AM Best has upgraded the Financial Strength Rating to A (Excellent) from A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICR) to "a" (Excellent) from "a-" (Excellent) of Greenlight Reinsurance, Ltd. (Cayman Islands) and Greenlight Reinsurance Ireland, Designated Activity Company (Ireland). Concurrently, AM Best has upgraded the Long-Term ICR to "bbb" (Good) from "bbb-" (Good) of Greenlight Capital Re, Ltd. (Cayman Islands) (GLRE) (NASDAQ:GLRE), the ultimate holding company. The outlooks of these Credit Ratings (ratings) have been revised to stable from positive.
The ratings reflect GLRE's balance sheet strength, which AM Best assesses as very strong, as well as its adequate operating performance, neutral business profile and appropriate enterprise risk management (ERM).
The upgrades reflect AM Best's view of GLRE's operating performance, which has steadily improved in recent years. In addition, investment results have stabilized and been accretive to net income and underwriting results have been more profitable, as the first nine months of 2025 produced some of the strongest underwriting results in GLRE's history. Overall, return metrics continue to be more favorable than prior years and are reflective of the group's strategic efforts.
AM Best views GLRE's business profile as neutral. The company was incorporated in the Cayman Islands in 2004 and is one of the longest-tenured total return reinsurers. Through its operating subsidiaries, GLRE provides property/casualty reinsurance on a global scale. GLRE has taken steps to diversify its platforms, including significant investments in its innovation-related operations, and the 2022 launch of the Greenlight Re Innovations Syndicate 3456 at Lloyd's. Additionally, GLRE's ERM is deemed appropriate for the company's business complexity and overall risk profile.
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