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Brown & Brown's strong acquisition-led growth, rising commissions and fees, and cash generation support earnings, while debt and expenses weigh on margins.
Zacks Insurance Brokerage players like WTW, AJG, AON and BRO are likely to benefit from increased demand for insurance products, strategic acquisitions and the adoption of technology.
The top five contributors for the quarter were MKS, Amphenol, Arista Networks, Bio-Techne, and Waters. The bottom five detractors for the quarter were Ross Stores, Arch Capital, Copart, Gartner, and Brown & Brown. We purchased shares in Verisk Analytics, the dominant provider of data and analytics to property and casualty insurers in the U.S.
Dimensional Fund Advisors LP trimmed its stake in shares of Brown and Brown, Inc. (NYSE: BRO) by 0.7% during the first quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 1,710,837 shares of the financial services provider's stock after selling 12,552 shares during the quarter.
Brown & Brown NYSE: BRO reported second-quarter revenue of $1.7 billion, up 30.4% from a year earlier, as acquisition activity and higher contingent commissions helped offset pressure from declining catastrophe-property insurance rates.
While the top- and bottom-line numbers for Brown & Brown (BRO) give a sense of how the business performed in the quarter ended June 2026, it could be worth looking at how some of its key metrics compare to Wall Street estimates and year-ago values.