Octave Specialty (OSG) Earnings Call Transcript

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Tue, February 24, 2026 astatine 8:48 AM CST 19 min read

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Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026 astatine 8:30 a.m. ET

• President & Chief Executive Officer — Claude L. LeBlanc

• Chief Financial Officer — David Trick

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Claude L. LeBlanc: Thank you, Karen, and bully morning, everyone. As we adjacent retired 2025, the 4th fourth marks the archetypal afloat play successful which Octave Specialty Group, Inc. operated arsenic a standalone specialty security platform, a milestone that reflects the culmination of a multiyear strategical transformation. Our security organisation platform, inclusive of Octave Partners and Octave Ventures, is good established and uniquely positioned successful the specialty programme sector, with aligned underwriting capacity, a scalable information and exertion infrastructure, and a wide way for sustained integrated maturation and meaningful borderline expansion. Our exemplary has allowed america to pull and spouse with apical underwriting talent, organisation partners, and starring superior and capableness providers.

The civilization we person built is 1 of entrepreneurship, collaboration, specialization, and partnership, supported by a centralized and scalable operating model.

As we determination guardant successful 2026 and beyond, we are starting from a presumption of strength. Despite an progressively challenging marketplace successful 2025, Octave Specialty Group, Inc. was capable to turn its security organisation concern gross by 65% implicit 2024, fueled by 14% integrated growth. This fig excludes 8 months of Octave Ventures, formerly known arsenic BEAT, and does not see our caller acquisition Armodicare. David volition locomotion done the elaborate fiscal results for the 4th fourth shortly.

As we look ahead, our well-diversified, high-growth, and rapidly scaling level is supported by beardown tailwinds including the following. One, embedded growth. Nine of our full 22 MGAs were launched successful 2024 and 2025. With implicit 40% of our full MGA portfolio successful aboriginal maturation stages, and immoderate already delivering beardown top-line and aboriginal bottom-line growth, we judge this unchangeable of MGAs volition correspond a important information of our aboriginal integrated maturation and net arsenic they proceed to standard implicit the adjacent 2 to 4 years. Looking astatine Octave Ventures connected a standalone basis, we saw integrated gross maturation of astir 18% successful 2024, expanding to astir 47% successful 2025.

The Ventures incubator level has a beardown pipeline of aboriginal MGA opportunities it is evaluating, with peculiar absorption connected the U.S. E&S and SME segments. Two, geographic and merchandise diversification. Our MGAs are geographically spread, with 9 of our full MGAs based successful London and Bermuda, with the remaining 13 successful the United States. This provides america with a competitory vantage supporting maturation and managing done marketplace cycles. Our Lloyd’s marketplace MGAs thin to determination to profitability faster than U.S. MGAs and besides determination faster done pricing cycles, which creates much predominant opportunities to deploy superior opportunistically. Our U.S. marketplace MGAs, by contrast, connection greater complaint stableness and much predictable underwriting conditions, which supports accordant borderline management.