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Loews Corporation: what the price is pricing in

There is no current earnings reading for Loews Corporation: its latest is from December 31, 2025. Switch lens below to see the other readings and how trading the gap would have done.

What growth in earnings is the price paying for?

No current reading. The latest is from December 31, 2025: the figures this lens needs have not been filed recently enough (or no longer apply), so there is no position this quarter.

Quarters with a position1210 long, 2 short, since September 30, 2016
Beat the S&P 5007 of 1258.3% of quarters held
Strategy against the index−11.1%cumulative; worst fall -28.1%
$10,000 became$23,589S&P 500 bought and held: $24,723

Over time

The earnings growth the price-to-earnings ratio requires, against the growth our model assumes. Net income is already after interest, so it is valued at the return shareholders require, plus spare cash (none for banks and insurers, whose cash is funded by deposits and policies), with no debt subtracted.

-8%14%36%59%81% 20162018202020222024 $33.1$58.9$84.7$111 Short from 2016-09-30Short from 2016-12-31Long from 2020-03-31Long from 2021-09-30Long from 2021-12-31Long from 2022-03-31Long from 2022-06-30Long from 2023-12-31Long from 2024-03-31Long from 2024-06-30Long from 2024-09-30Long from 2024-12-31
Growth our model assumes Growth the P/E implies Long quarter Short quarter. Lower panel: the share price at each quarter end, adjusted for later share splits and spin-offs (the table below gives the price as traded).

$10,000 trading the gap vs the S&P 500

$0$10.0k$20.0k 201620182020202220242026 $24.7k$23.6k
StrategyS&P 500, buy and hold Hypothetical, before costs. The strategy holds the S&P 500 and only changes on a signal: it switches into L in long quarters and adds a short of L in short quarters. The gap between the lines is what the signal added or lost.

Skill or luck?

In plain English: Across 12 quarters with a position, this lens beat the S&P 500 in 7, by −0.4% a quarter on average. That could easily be chance. One company is a small sample: the results across all companies are the better guide.

PositionsQuartersBeat the S&P 500Average vs S&P 500, a quarterTypical (median), a quarterA yearConfidence (t)Evidence
Longs 10 60.0% −0.1% +1.2% −2.7% -0.02 No reliable evidence
Shorts 2 50.0% −2.1% −2.1% −9.2% — Too few quarters
All positions 12 58.3% −0.4% +1.2% −3.8% -0.12 No reliable evidence

Each position is measured against the S&P 500 over the same quarter: a long earns the stock's return minus the index's, a short the index's minus the stock's. "A year" compounds the per-quarter results. Evidence: strong at a t-statistic of 2 or more, some from 1.5; "worse" when the result is that far below zero; one company's history is a small sample, so read these alongside the results across all companies.

Every quarter (33)
FromPrice paidGrowth the P/E impliesGrowth our model assumesPositionLS&P 500
December 31, 2025 $105.31 0.3% 7.8% No position +1.4% −4.4%
September 30, 2025 $100.39 0.9% 8.8% No position +5.0% +2.7%
June 30, 2025 $91.66 -0.1% 7.9% No position +9.6% +8.1%
March 31, 2025 $91.91 -0.8% 8.1% No position −0.2% +10.8%
December 31, 2024 $84.69 -4.9% 8.5% Long +8.6% −4.3%
September 30, 2024 $79.05 -4.3% 7.8% Long +7.2% +2.5%
June 30, 2024 $74.74 -5.1% 10.5% Long +5.8% +5.8%
March 31, 2024 $78.29 -3.3% 10.7% Long −4.5% +4.4%
December 31, 2023 $69.59 -4.0% 8.8% Long +12.6% +10.4%
September 30, 2023 $63.31 -1.6% 6.6% No position +10.0% +11.6%
June 30, 2023 $59.38 1.2% 2.0% No position +6.7% −3.2%
March 31, 2023 $58.02 2.2% 2.0% No position +2.5% +8.7%
December 31, 2022 $58.33 3.1% 2.0% No position −0.4% +7.5%
September 30, 2022 $49.84 -3.8% 2.0% No position +17.2% +7.6%
June 30, 2022 $59.26 -8.4% 5.3% Long −15.8% −4.9%
March 31, 2022 $64.82 -5.9% 7.5% Long −8.5% −16.1%
December 31, 2021 $57.76 -8.3% 8.1% Long +12.3% −4.6%
September 30, 2021 $53.93 -8.2% 7.7% Long +7.2% +11.1%
March 31, 2020 $34.83 -5.0% 5.3% Long −1.4% +20.2%
December 31, 2019 $52.49 11.8% 2.0% No position −33.6% −19.4%
September 30, 2019 $51.48 5.9% 2.0% No position +2.1% +9.0%
June 30, 2019 $54.67 7.7% 2.2% No position −5.7% +1.8%
March 31, 2019 $47.93 8.2% 2.0% No position +14.2% +4.2%
December 31, 2018 $45.52 -4.7% 3.9% No position +5.4% +13.5%
September 30, 2018 $50.23 -1.1% 4.0% No position −9.3% −13.5%
June 30, 2018 $48.28 -1.4% 2.9% No position +4.2% +7.7%
March 31, 2018 $49.73 -0.5% 2.0% No position −2.8% +3.5%
December 31, 2017 $50.03 2.8% 2.0% No position −0.5% −1.0%
September 30, 2017 $47.86 -0.8% 2.0% No position +4.7% +6.8%
June 30, 2017 $46.81 4.0% 2.0% No position +2.4% +4.4%
March 31, 2017 $46.77 8.6% 2.0% No position +0.2% +3.1%
December 31, 2016 $46.83 34.7% 2.0% Short +0.0% +5.9%
September 30, 2016 $41.15 81.2% 2.0% Short +14.0% +4.0%

Price paid: the closing price that day as traded, before any later share split.

How the test works

At each quarter end since March 2010 we rebuild the models from Loews Corporation's quarters ending at least 90 days earlier (and no more than 200 days before that), using the figures as later filed, including any restatement, and value them at that day's close, adjusted for later share splits and spin-offs so that price and share count are on the same basis. A wide enough gap is a long or a short for one quarter (growth 10 points; margin and return on equity 5 points; a PEG under 0.75 or over 3), measured on total return against the S&P 500. The rules were set before the test. No trading or borrowing costs; today's list of companies. Not investment advice. All companies and the results across them.

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Figures from Loews Corporation's SEC filings (10-K and 10-Q), retrieved November 2, 2026. How we read and check them: methodology and data sources. Not investment advice. Back to Loews Corporation.