secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     AMERISAFE INC (AMSF)
CIK:        0001018979
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2024-02-21T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-24-041482
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

AMERISAFE posts $62.1M net income in 2023, Q4 EPS down 7.4% YoY; dividend raised 8.8%
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- Full-year net income $62.1M (diluted EPS $3.23) vs $55.6M ($2.88) in 2022, up 11.7%.
- Q4 net income $19.2M ($1.00 EPS) vs $20.8M ($1.08) prior year, down 7.7% YoY.
- Full-year net combined ratio 85.9% vs 83.6% in 2022; underwriting profit down 15.8% to $37.6M.
- Dividend increased 8.8% to $0.37 per share, payable Mar 22, 2024 to holders of record Mar 8.
- Q4 share repurchases: 46,741 shares at avg $46.45, remaining authorization $10.4M.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018979/000119312524041482/0001193125-24-041482-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018979/000119312524041482/d650208d8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-041482

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