MKL Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Markel Group | NYSE:MKL)

Markel's primary business is property and casualty insurance. The company focuses primarily on specialty lines, ranging from areas such as executive liability to commercial equine insurance. The acquisition of Alterra in 2013 added substantial reinsurance operations, which now account for a little over 10% of premiums. The company uses capital generated by its insurance operations to buy noninsurance operations in diverse areas, such as bakery equipment manufacturing and residential homebuilding.

Markel Group trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol MKL.

As of January 30, 2026, MKL stock price climbed to $2,040.64 with 42,101 million shares trading.

MKL has a beta of 0.53, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. MKL has a correlation of 0.16 to the broad based SPY ETF.

MKL has a market cap of $25.73 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Markel Group reported $4 billion in Revenue and $59.25 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $168 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $35.88.

In the last 3 years, MKL traded as high as $2,207.59 and as low as $1,186.56.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that MKL belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VO, VXF, VTV, VOT.

MKL has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +11.4% while the SPY ETF gained +15.6%. However, in the short term, MKL had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +5.3% vs +2.1% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, MKL shares have been beat by the market, returning -0.9% compared to an SPY return of 0.0%.

MKL support price is $1,997.33 and resistance is $2,043.91 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that MKL shares will trade within this expected range on the day.