Independence Holding Company

Independence Holding Company, through its subsidiaries, engages in health, pet, and life insurance businesses. The company's dental portfolio includes indemnity and PPO plans for employer groups of two or more lives, and for individuals; vision plans that offer a flat reimbursement amount for exams and materials; and short-term medical products for people with temporary needs for health coverage. It also provides supplemental products, including hospital indemnity, fixed indemnity limited benefit, critical illness, accident medical coverage, and life insurance products; pet insurance; and occupational accident insurance products, such as accidental death, accident disability, and accident medical benefits for occupational injuries to employees of companies. In addition, the company offers group long-term and short-term disability products to employers; New York short-term disability plan that offers temporary cash payments to replace wages lost; and group term life products, such as group term life, accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D), supplemental life and AD&D, and dependent life products. Further, it provides medicare supplements and advantages; employer group and individual insurance products, including self-funded programs; and affordable care act plans. Independence Holding Company markets its products through general agents, independent brokers, and independent producers. The company was incorporated in 1980 and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.

Independence Holding Company trades as IHC on NYSE. The company is classified in Financial Services / Insurance - Life and reports in USD.

The current profile places the business in Insurance - Life. This section is intended to summarize the operating segments, products, geographies, and main revenue lines from official filings.

Latest available fiscal data shows $443.86M of revenue and $18.88M of net income.

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Independence Holding Company can be compared against peers such as Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd., CrossFirst Bankshares, Inc., Lakeland Bancorp, Inc., MidCap Financial Investment Corporation, Origin Bancorp, Inc., PacWest Bancorp.

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Current signals to investigate include market capitalization of $0, beta of 0.78, and return on equity of +4.0%.

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IHC currently shows total debt of $9.99M and beta of 0.78. Missing data should be treated as a research gap, not as low risk.

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Company website: https://www.ihcgroup.com

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