Fidelis Insurance Holdings Limi FIHL

Competitive advantage analysis · financial-services

Insurance & Reinsurance
Overall moat score
32/100
Developing

About Fidelis Insurance Holdings Limi

Fidelis Insurance Holdings Limited provides insurance and reinsurance solutions in Bermuda, the Republic of Ireland, and the United Kingdom. It operates in two segments: Insurance and Reinsurance. The Insurance segment offers property, marine, asset backed finance and portfolio credit, aviation and aerospace, political risk, violence and terror, energy, cyber, and other insurance products. The Reinsurance segment provides property, retrocession, and … Full FIHL analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key risks

  • Below-Peer Float Returns Float return signal is weak (score 0.35), indicating below-peer investment yields limiting overall profitability.
  • Below-Peer Return on Equity ROE signal is weak (score 0.23), with ROE at 9.3% trailing peers — raising capital efficiency concerns.

The dashed ring is the peer median. Defense scores are percentile ranks against peers, so 50 is roughly the typical company in this group.

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Underwriting Discipline

Developing
46

Where FIHL ranks in Insurance - Diversified

Fidelis Insurance Holdings Limi ranks #12 of 17 scored companies in Insurance - Diversified by moat score — the top 71%. The widest moat in the group is Arch Capital Group Ltd. (ACGL) at 81/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near FIHL in Insurance - Diversified
# Company Moat score Rating
8 Aegon Ltd. New York Registry Sh AEG 43/100 Developing
9 Sun Life Financial Inc. SLF 40/100 Developing
10 Berkshire Hathaway Inc. New BRK-B 39/100 Developing
11 Brookfield Wealth Solutions Ltd BNT 39/100 Developing
12 Fidelis Insurance Holdings Limi FIHL 32/100 Developing
13 Enstar Group Limited ESGR 0/100 Weak
14 Enstar Group Limited - Deposito ESGRO 0/100 Weak
15 Enstar Group Limited - Deposita ESGRP 0/100 Weak
16 Fundamental Global Inc. FGF 0/100 Weak

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How FIHL scores on the Insurance & Reinsurance defenses

Underwriting Discipline

Score 46 · 25% of the moat score

Underwriting discipline is the core insurance moat, and it consists mostly of the willingness to lose business.

Float Investment Quality

Score 23 · 20% of the moat score

Float is the money an insurer holds between collecting premiums and paying claims — capital it invests but does not own.

Pricing Power

Score 36 · 18% of the moat score

For an insurer, pricing power is the ability to push rate ahead of claims inflation and keep the policyholders anyway.

Capital Strength & Solvency

Score 13 · 17% of the moat score

Capital is what lets an insurer credibly promise to pay a claim that has not happened yet, and it is scrutinised by regulators and rating agencies alike.

Operational Efficiency

Score 36 · 12% of the moat score

The expense ratio — what it costs to acquire and administer a policy — is the half of the combined ratio management fully controls.

Scale & Diversification

Score 37 · 8% of the moat score

Diversification is a real economic advantage in insurance rather than a portfolio preference: risks spread across perils, geographies and lines are less likely to arrive at once, so the same capital supports more premium.

How each Insurance & Reinsurance defense is measured, in full →

Understanding FIHL's moat

What is Fidelis Insurance Holdings Limi's moat score?

Fidelis Insurance Holdings Limi (FIHL) scores 32 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #12 of 17 scored companies in Insurance - Diversified, the top 71%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 17 companies in Insurance - Diversified. Its strongest defense is Underwriting Discipline (46/100) and its weakest is Capital Strength & Solvency (13/100).

How does Fidelis Insurance Holdings Limi compare with other Insurance - Diversified companies?

Fidelis Insurance Holdings Limi ranks #12 of 17 scored companies in Insurance - Diversified by moat score. The widest moat in Insurance - Diversified is Arch Capital Group Ltd. (ACGL) at 81/100. The companies ranked closest are Brookfield Wealth Solutions Ltd (BNT) at 39 just above it and Enstar Group Limited (ESGR) at 0 just below it.

How is the moat score calculated?

Each company is scored with an industry-specific template — Insurance & Reinsurance in this case, chosen because the defenses that matter to a bank are not the ones that matter to a software company. Every defense combines several financial signals, and each signal is measured as a percentile against a peer group of 17 companies in Insurance - Diversified. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Fidelis Insurance Holdings Limi scored with the Insurance & Reinsurance template?

An insurer is paid before it knows what its product cost, and invests the money in the meantime. Profit therefore comes from two sources that must both work: pricing risk better than rivals, and earning a return on the float those premiums create. The Insurance template scores that pair, along with the capital that lets a company survive the year in which the losses arrive together.

Which competitive defenses are measured for Fidelis Insurance Holdings Limi?

The Insurance & Reinsurance template measures 6 defenses, and FIHL scores: Underwriting Discipline (46), Float Investment Quality (23), Pricing Power (36), Capital Strength & Solvency (13), Operational Efficiency (36), Scale & Diversification (37). Each is scored independently as a percentile against peers, so a company can be strong on one and weak on another — the overall score reflects how those defenses are weighted for this industry.

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