secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Essent Group Ltd. (ESNT)
CIK:        0001448893
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2024-02-09T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001448893-24-000014
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 8.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Essent Group Q4 net income $175.4M ($1.64 EPS); dividend raised to $0.28
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- Q4 2023 net income $175.4M ($1.64 diluted EPS) vs $147.4M ($1.37) a year ago.
- Full-year 2023 net income $696.4M ($6.50 EPS) vs $831.4M ($7.72) in 2022.
- New insurance written Q4 $8.8B; insurance in force $239.1B as of Dec. 31, 2023.
- Quarterly dividend raised to $0.28 per share, payable March 22 to holders of record March 13.
- S&P upgraded Essent Guaranty and Essent Reinsurance to 'A-' from 'BBB+', stable outlook.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1448893/000144889324000014/0001448893-24-000014-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1448893/000144889324000014/esnt-20240209.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001448893-24-000014

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