Marsh

MRSH Financial Insurance Brokers

Marsh’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $27.0 billion, up 10.3% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+8.06%
EPS
+11.8%
Free cash flow
−30.5%
Total debt
+3.12%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

207.34 2.09 −1.00%
Market cap
$99.6B
P/E
24.8×
Fwd P/E
23.3×
Dividend yield
1.81%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
n/a
Beneish M
n/a
Dividend safety
n/a

Marsh (MRSH) valuation and DCF model

What the price implies · reverse DCF

At $207.34 the price implies 18.9% a year of dividend growth, at a 9.0% cost of equity.

The dividend a share grew 11.2% a year over the last ten years, 13.2% over the last five. The price asks for about twice its ten-year rate. Return on equity averaged 26.8% over ten years; the price implies 45.5% for good.

In December 2017 the price assumed 19.5% a year; Marsh went on to grow the dividend a share 15.5% a year to FY2025.

Price implies
18.9%
Last 5 years, reported
13.2%
Last 10 years, reported
11.2%

The headline discounts the last twelve months’ the dividend a share at 9.0% for ten years and grows it 2.5% a year after that, the same for every company, so the figure compares across the market (how a reverse DCF works).

The other way round · DCF
The price needs
18.9% a year for ten years
$207.34
today’s price
Its base case
11.2% a year for five years, then 6.7%
$99.50
52.0% below today’s price

Both are growth in the dividend a share, discounted at 9.0%, with 2.5% a year after year ten.

Base case on its own ten-year record Marsh’s own growth, carried forward

Its assumptions

Powerpack lets you start from a scenario and type over any of them.

The base case’s inputs, which Powerpack lets you change
1 · Dividends
the four quarters to September 2026, from the 10-Q and 10-K filings

Yearly growth in the dividend. It usually slows as the company matures.

Today’s price implies the dividend a share growing 18.9% a year for ten years.

2 · Rates

Cost of equity is the yearly return shareholders require, typically 8–11%. Terminal growth is growth forever after year 10, usually near long-run inflation, 2–3%.

3 · Per share

The model is a share’s own: no debt to take off and no shares to divide among.

Advanced inputs

Against Marsh’s own cost of capital: risk-free 4.3% + beta 0.52 × equity premium 4.5% = 6.6% cost of equity; weighted, 6.6%.

Use 6.6%
Base case value per share $99.50 ten years discounted, and what follows
Current price $207.34 market price per share
Below today’s price 52.0% downside at the base case’s assumptions

How we got there$39.94 10 years of dividends+$59.56 terminal value=$99.50 per share

Valuation against its own history

Today’s multiple against its 5- and 10-year averages and the industry median (Insurance Brokers).

Multiple Current 5Y avg 10Y avg vs 10Y avg Industry median vs industry 10Y range
P/E 24.83× 24.94× 26.66× 7% below 22.14× 12% above
P/FCF 23.90× 24.09× 24.22× 1% below 22.32× 7% above
P/B 6.66× 7.13× 6.78× 2% below 3.02× 120% above
EV/EBITDA — 16.21× 16.04× — 3.38× —
EV/Sales — 4.19× 3.80× — 3.90× —
21.85×25.29×28.74×32.18×10Y avg 26.66×2017201820192020202120222023202420252026

MRSH trades at 24.83× P/E, against a 10-year average of 26.66× (range 21.88×–32.29×). That is cheaper than 78% of the last 9 year-end readings; re-rating to the average implies $222.60 per share.

Every growth rate on this page is the business’s — its cash flow, FFO or dividend — never its share price’s. A discounted-cash-flow model is only as good as its assumptions. Figures from the 10-K and 10-Q filings. Not investment advice.