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UTGN
56
Insurance - Life · Financial Services
Price
$59.00
+0.00 (+0.00%)
Market Cap
$185.2M
Winston Score
56
Winston is curious
A decent business — some strong pillars, some weaker.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Jun 30, 2026
How the score breaks down
Quality
Exceptional
Growth
Mixed
Cash Flow
Weak
Stability
Good
Valuation
Good

Winston Score History

The full picture

UTG, Inc. is a small insurance holding company based in the United States. It sells life insurance and annuity products to individual customers, primarily in the Midwest and South. The company operates through its main subsidiary, United Home Life Insurance Company, which has been providing basic life coverage to everyday consumers for decades.

UTG earns money by collecting premiums from policyholders and investing those funds to generate returns over time. It is a very small company with a market cap of around $200 million, competing in a crowded life insurance market dominated by much larger players. Its high operating margins suggest lean operations, but its small size and limited scale make it harder to compete for new customers and talent against bigger insurers — and slow organic growth remains the key long-term challenge the business faces.

Share count broadly stable

0.6% over 4y

The share count has stayed roughly flat over this period — little dilution or buyback activity.

Diluted shares outstanding: 3.2M (2021) → 3.2M (2025)

Score breakdown

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Quality

Profit per sale
Gross Margin
81.0%
Premium pricing power — 81.0% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
57.6%
Excellent — 57.6% operating margin
Return on the money invested
ROCE
17.2%
Strong — 17.2% return on capital

ROIC between 15% and 25%. Every dollar invested in the business earns 15 to 25 cents back per year.

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Growth

Sales growth
Sales YoY
-8.1%
Shrinking sales (-8.1% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
-19.3%
Earnings shrinking (-19.3% YoY)

Earnings per share down more than 10%. Either a bad year, or a real decline.

How steady the profit is
EPS Consistency
5/8 quarters
Mixed — about half the quarters showed growth

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash
Cash Conversion
-21%
Weak — only -21% of profit becomes cash
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
-11.4%
Burning cash (-11.4%)

Free cash flow is negative. They are burning cash, not generating it.

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Stability

What it owes vs what it owns
Debt / Equity
N/A
Data not available
Covers its interest
Interest Cover
100.00x
Comfortably covers interest (100.0x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

Price vs profit
P/E Ratio (TTM)
5.2x
Attractive valuation — P/E 5.2

P/E under 10. The price tag is small relative to last year's profit.

Cheaper or dearer next year
P/E vs Forward
N/A
not available
Data not available

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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