Axa launches $2B share buyback, plans another in 2022
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(Reuters) – French insurer Axa SA announced the launch of a share buyback program for up to 1.7 billion euros ($2 billion) on Thursday and said it was planning another next year.
Europe's second-biggest insurer, after Germany's Allianz SE, said the share buyback to be launched in 2022 would amount to up to 500 million euros as Axa seeks to compensate for earnings dilution from assets disposals.
In a separate statement, Axa reported a 4% rise in nine-month revenue and said it expected its company-focused XL unit to pay about 400 million euros in claims for damages due to Hurricane Ida that hit the United States in August.
Chief Financial Officer Alban de Mailly Nesle told reporters the target of a 1.2 billion euro underlying result for its XL unit this year remained in place.
In the first nine months of the year, Axa's revenue grew by 1% in its property and casualty businesses and by 8% in its life and savings activities.
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