American International Group Inc. New Common Stock (AIG): valor razonable

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AIG writes commercial property and casualty, life and retirement, and general insurance, with a large footprint in global commercial lines and a retirement business that sells annuities through its Corebridge stake and related platforms. The structural advantage is scale and distribution: a $41.4B market cap insurer with diversified underwriting across commercial and personal lines, where pricing discipline and reserve quality matter more than top-line growth. Revenue growth is essentially flat at 0.5%, so the case rests on margin and capital returns rather than expansion, and the 19.4% operating margin against a 7.2% ROE shows the equity base is heavy relative to earnings. The stock trades at 14.5x trailing and 8.5x forward earnings, a steep drop that the market is pricing as either a peak-earnings call or a sign of doubt about the forecast. Whether that gap closes depends on evidence that underwriting margins hold through the next cycle, and that the company converts its earnings into buybacks instead of retained capital.