Allied plunged 4.3% to $37.04 at 11:06 a.m. in New York. The stock has dropped 1.5% this year, compared with the 7.5% increase of the Russell 1000 Index.
Operating income was 76 cents a share, missing by 8 cents the average estimate of 9 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. Net policy sales fell 4.7% to $553.9 million as a decline at the reinsurance unit overwhelmed gains from the U.S. and international insurance segments, the Zug, Switzerland-based company said in a statement late yesterday.
“In reinsurance they've been shrinking their exposure to catastrophes,” Matt Carletti, an analyst with JMP Securities LLC said in a phone interview. “That segment drove the miss.”
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