Financial Performance: Delivering Value Over Time

Ultimately, it is the success of our strategy – with all its component parts – that drives our total return to shareholders over time. It is important to remember that we have a well-established track record of managing the company to create value over the long term, through periods of weather volatility; through anticipated and unanticipated developments impacting loss trends; through both foreseeable and unforeseeable economic cycles; and through any number of more extreme economic, geopolitical and other conditions. With that in mind, the graph below compares our returns since the 2008 financial crisis to the returns for the S&P 500, the S&P 500 Financials and the Dow 30.

Total return to shareholders¹

¹Represents the change in stock price plus the cumulative amount of dividends, assuming dividend reinvestment. For each year on the chart, total return is calculated with January 1, 2008, as the starting point and December 31 of the relevant year as the ending point. ©Bloomberg Finance L.P. Used with permission of Bloomberg.

Our total return reflects the successful execution of our long-term strategy. We provide our shareholders with industry-leading returns, low volatility and high credit quality. The success of this long-term strategy is evident in the strong performance of our stock over time, which has been remarkably consistent relative to many others in the P&C industry. Viewing our performance through this long-term lens, we are as confident as ever that executing on our long-term financial strategy, managing Travelers with an over-time discipline, and continuing to invest in our competitive advantages through our ambitious and focused innovation agenda is the right approach for building on Travelers’ outstanding record.