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Insurance stocks are rising as Hurricane Irma damage is likely to be less than expected (FNF, PGR, FAF, ACGL, CB, ALL, NAVG, SIGI, CINF, KINS)

Hurricane Irma, while massively destructive, was less damaging than expected. Insurance companies are rising on the news.

Hurricane Irma continues to rampage across Florida, knocking out power in much of the state. However, damage caused by the storm is looking to be less than expected, and insurance stocks are rising on the news.

Irma has been downgraded to a tropical storm Monday morning after hitting the Florida keys as a category 4 hurricane. The S&P insurance exchange traded fund is up 2.06% on Monday morning, as reports from the affected areas in Florida roll in.

The ETF was falling in the wake of Hurricane Harvey and in anticipation Irma hit Florida. It fell greater than 2% on more than one occasion last week but actually gained nearly 3% on Friday, just days before Irma made landfall in Florida.

Here is a list of some of the biggest insurance companies and how much they have moved on Monday...

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  • Fidelity National (FNF)
  • Progressive (PGR)
  • First American Financial (FAF)
  • Arch Capital Group (ACGL)
  • Chubb (CB)
  • Allstate (ALL)
  • Navigators Group (NAVG)
  • Selective Insurance Group (SIGI)
  • Cincinnati Financial (CINF)
  • Kingstone Companies (KINS)

Destruction from Hurricane Irma, while less than expected, still devastated parts of the Caribbean and caused heavy destruction in areas of Florida. 5.8 million homes and businesses are currently without power because of the storm, and Irma was the cause for the largest evacuation in history.

Irma is now headed through the northern parts of Florida toward Georgia and Alabama.

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