TORONTO, Aug. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Trisura Group Ltd. (“Trisura” or “Trisura Group”) (TSX: TSU), a leading specialty insurance provider, today announced financial results for the second quarter of 2026.

David Clare, President and CEO of Trisura, stated,

“Book value surpassed $1.0 billion in the quarter, an important milestone that reflects years of consistent, profitable growth, with BVPS increasing 20.2% year-over-year to $21.19. This was driven by strong earnings, including Operating net income of $36.8 million, or $0.76 per share, up 10.7% over the prior year, underpinned by a Combined ratio of 84.9% and 18.1% growth in Net investment income. Primary lines, which carry the highest underwriting margins and meaningfully drive profitability, grew Net insurance revenue by 6.6% in the quarter.

We further broadened our US platform, reaching 48 state licenses in our treasury-listed entity, most recently including California. To support this growth, we also further capitalized our US Surety balance sheet in the quarter. With a conservative 16.5% Debt-to-capital ratio, well below our target range, and meaningful capital available for deployment, our strengthened balance sheet provides the flexibility and capacity to continue growing accretively."

Highlights

• Balance sheet strength continued to build with Book Value exceeding our $1.0 billion 2027 objective ahead of schedule. BVPS⁽¹⁾ increased 20.2% from last year to $21.19, supported by strong earnings generation and disciplined capital management. Our Debt-to-capital ratio remained conservatively positioned at 16.5%.

• Operating ROE⁽¹⁾ of 16.7% was robust, reflecting strong profitability from core operations (ROE⁽¹⁾ was 16.9%) which was impacted by pre-funding of the US Surety balance sheet in anticipation of growth.

• Combined ratio⁽¹⁾ for the quarter was 84.9%, reflecting continued strong underlying performance across the portfolio.

• Primary lines⁽²⁾ Net insurance revenue⁽¹⁾ growth of 6.6% reflected continued momentum in the quarter. Growth was moderated by a particularly strong prior year comparison in US Surety, which experienced higher-than-normal activity in Q2 2025.

• Operating EPS⁽¹⁾ of $0.76 in the quarter increased 10.1% and was underpinned by solid Underwriting and strong Net investment income. EPS of $0.89 was greater than the prior year by 17.1%.
  
  

Q2 Consolidated Performance

• Net insurance revenue of $198.4 million increased modestly in the quarter and YTD period, reflecting continued growth across Primary lines and US Programs, partially offset by contraction in Canadian Fronting. Primary lines growth of 6.6% in the quarter was moderated by a particularly strong prior year comparison in Surety due to timing effects. Primary lines grew 8.8% in the YTD period.
• Underwriting income of $30.0 million increased in the quarter and YTD period, driven by net insurance revenue growth and a strong Combined ratio in both periods, reflecting disciplined underwriting performance across the portfolio.
• The Loss ratio of 32.8% performed in line with expectations improving in the quarter due to lower claims activity and remained stable in the YTD period.
• The Expense ratio of 52.1% was broadly stable for the quarter and YTD period.
• Net investment income increased 18.1% in the quarter fueled by ongoing cash contributions to the investment portfolio.
• Operating earnings per share of $0.76 (EPS of $0.89) increased by 10.1% in the quarter, driven by higher Net investment income and Underwriting income.
• Operating ROE of 16.7% (ROE 16.9%) was lower than the prior year. Strong profitability from core operations continued, with Operating net income 10.7% higher year-over-year, but this was more than offset by the increase in Shareholders' equity, largely reflecting retained earnings from core operations.
  
  

Capital

• The Company and its regulated specialty insurance subsidiaries are well-capitalized, and we expect to have sufficient capital to exceed both our minimum regulatory and internal capital targets, and to fund our operations.
• The Company's Debt-to-capital ratio of 16.5% as at June 30, 2026 was higher than Q2 2025 due to the issuance of $200 million of senior unsecured notes in Q1 2026 used to refinance existing indebtedness and further strengthen the balance sheet. A portion of the proceeds also supported the capitalization of our treasury-listed US Surety platform in Q2 2026, to support future growth. This was partially offset by the increase to Shareholders' equity from positive Net income.
  
  

Corporate Development

• Further expanded our US Surety licenses in the quarter, reaching 48 state licenses in our treasury-listed entity, adding California, Hawaii and Minnesota.
  
  

Analysts' Estimate

• The average estimate⁽³⁾ of Operating EPS for the quarter among the analysts who follow the Company was $0.76.
  
  

Earnings Conference Call

Trisura will host its Second Quarter Earnings Conference Call to review financial results at 9:00a.m. ET on Friday, August 7^th, 2026.

To listen to the call via live audio webcast, please follow the link below:

https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/zqi2z6on

A replay of the call will be available through the link above.

Investor Day 2027

Trisura will host an Investor Day the week of February 22^nd, 2027, where management will discuss long-term strategy and market conditions. More detail will be provided in the coming months.

About Trisura Group

Trisura Group Ltd. is a specialty insurance provider operating in the Surety, Warranty, Corporate Insurance, Program and Fronting business lines of the market. Trisura has investments in wholly owned subsidiaries through which it conducts insurance operations. Those operations are primarily in Canada and the United States. Trisura Group Ltd. is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol “TSU”.

Further information is available at http://www.trisuragroup.com. Important information may be disseminated exclusively via the website. Investors should consult the site to access this information. Details regarding the operations of Trisura Group Ltd. are also set forth in regulatory filings. A copy of the filings may be obtained on Trisura Group’s SEDAR+ profile at www.sedarplus.ca.

For more information, please contact:

Bryan Sinclair
Tel: 416 607 2135
Email: bryan.sinclair@trisura.com

Non-IFRS Financial Measures and other Financial Measures

We report certain financial information using non-IFRS financial measures, non-IFRS ratios and supplementary financial measures that we use to measure and evaluate the performance of our business. Non-IFRS financial measures do not have standardized meanings prescribed by IFRS and may not be comparable to similar measures used by other companies in our industry. They are used by management and financial analysts to assess our performance.

Further, they provide users with an enhanced understanding of our results and related trends and increase transparency and clarity into the core results of the business.

These metrics are operating performance measures that highlight trends in our core business or are required ratios used to measure compliance with OSFI and other regulatory standards. Our Company also believes that securities analysts, investors and other interested parties use these operating metrics to compare our Company’s performance against others in the specialty insurance industry. Our Company’s management also uses these operating metrics and other financial measures in order to facilitate operating performance comparisons from period to period. Such operating metrics and other financial measures should not be considered as the sole indicators of our performance and should not be considered in isolation from, or as a substitute for, analysis of our financial statements prepared in accordance with IFRS. For more information about these supplementary financial measures, Non-IFRS financial measures, and Non-IFRS ratios, including definitions and explanations of how these measures provide useful information, refer to Section 6, Other Information in our Q2 2026 MD&A, which is available on our website at http://www.trisuragroup.com and on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca.

Table 1 – Reconciliation of Operating net income to reported Net income and OEPS: reflect Net income, adjusted for certain items to normalize earnings to core operations in order to reflect our North American specialty operations.

Table 2 – Reconciliation of Insurance service result to Underwriting income - Consolidated

Table 3 – ROE and Operating ROE: a measure of the Company’s use of equity.

Table 4 – Reconciliation of Average equity⁽⁵⁾ to LTM average equity, excluding certain items⁽¹⁾: LTM average equity, excluding certain items is used in calculating Operating ROE.

Table 5 – Combined ratio – Consolidated: Combined ratio is used to evaluate underlying profitability relative to Net insurance revenue in a given period.

Footnotes

(1) These are non-IFRS financial measures, non-IFRS ratios, and supplementary financial measures. They are not standardized financial measures under the financial reporting framework used to prepare the financial statements of the Company to which the measure relates and might not be comparable to similar financial measures disclosed by other companies. See Section 6, Other Information in our Q22026 MD&A for details on composition and an explanation of how it provides useful information to an investor.
(2) Primary lines are lines of insurance business such as Surety, Corporate Insurance, and Warranty.
(3) The average Operating EPS estimate is calculated as the average of 9 analyst estimates provided to the Company.
(4) Other non-operating items include miscellaneous items that in the view of management are not part of our core insurance operations.
(5) Average equity is calculated as the sum of opening equity and closing equity over the last twelve months, divided by two.

Cautionary Non-IFRS and Other Financial Measures

Reported results conform to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), in accordance with IFRS. In addition to reported results, our Company also presents certain financial measures, including non-IFRS financial measures that are historical, non-IFRS ratios, and supplementary financial measures, to assess results. Non-IFRS financial measures, such as operating net income, are utilized to assess the Company’s overall performance. To arrive at operating results, our Company adjusts for certain items to normalize earnings to core operations, in order to reflect our North American specialty operations. Non-IFRS ratios include a non-IFRS financial measure as one or more of its components. Examples of non-IFRS ratios include operating diluted earnings per share and operating ROE. The Company believes that non-IFRS financial measures and non-IFRS ratios provide the reader with an enhanced understanding of our results and related trends and increase transparency and clarity into the core results of the business. Non-IFRS financial measures and non-IFRS ratios are not standardized terms under IFRS and, therefore, may not be comparable to similar terms used by other companies. Supplementary financial measures depict the Company’s financial performance and position, and are explained in this document where they first appear, and incorporates information by reference to our Company’s current MD&A, for the three and six months ended June 30, 2026. To access MD&A, see Trisura’s website or SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca. These measures are pursuant to National Instrument 52-112 Non-GAAP and Other Financial Measures Disclosure.

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Many factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated or implied by forward-looking statements including, but not limited to: the impact or unanticipated impact of general economic, political and market factors in the countries in which we do business; the behaviour of financial markets, including fluctuations in interest and foreign exchange rates; global equity and capital markets and the availability of equity and debt financing and refinancing within these markets; insurance risks including pricing risk, concentration risk and exposure to large losses, and risks associated with estimates of loss reserves; strategic actions including dispositions; the ability to complete and effectively integrate acquisitions into existing operations and the ability to attain expected benefits; changes in accounting policies and methods used to report financial condition (including uncertainties associated with critical accounting assumptions and estimates); the ability to appropriately manage human capital; the effect of applying future accounting changes; business competition; operational and reputational risks; technological change; changes in government regulation and legislation within the countries in which we operate; governmental investigations; litigation; changes in tax laws; changes in capital requirements; changes in reinsurance arrangements and availability and cost of reinsurance; ability to collect amounts owed; catastrophic events, such as earthquakes, hurricanes or pandemics; the possible impact of international conflicts and other developments including terrorist acts and cyberterrorism; risks associated with reliance on distribution partners, capacity providers and program administrators; third party risks; risk that models used to manage the business do not function as expected; climate change risk; risk of economic downturn; risk of inflation; risks relating to cyber-security; risks relating to artificial intelligence; risks relating to credit ratings; and other risks and factors detailed in Section 5 - Risk Management in our Q2 MD&A and in our other documents filed with securities regulators in Canada from time to time.

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