KINS News & Events

Meryl Golden, President and Chief Executive Officer of Kingstone, stated, "Our most profitable quarter in history closed out our most profitable year in history. I'm pleased to report that our preliminary results for the full year outperformed the 2025 guidance that we issued during the third quarter of 2025. Our direct written premium growth for the fourth quarter and full year of 2025 of 14% and 15%, respectively, coupled with our exceptional underwriting profit both for the quarter and for the full year of 2025 demonstrates the durability of the platform we have built."

Kingstone Companies announced the appointment of Randy Patten as CFO, effective August 25, 2025. Patten joins Kingstone Companies, Inc. from NEXT Insurance, where he played a key role in NEXT Insurance's recent acquisition by ERGO Group AG, a subsidiary of MunichRe, for $2.6 billion. At NEXT Insurance, Mr. Patten most recently served as Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer, and Treasurer. As Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Patten will lead Kingstone's finance organization and his responsibilities will span GAAP and Statutory accounting, financial planning and analysis, capital management, compliance, close coordination with the legal team for SEC filings, tax, investor relations, investments and treasury functions.

Kingstone Companies announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend on its common stock for the first time since the third quarter of 2022. The Company will pay a dividend of $0.05 per share of its common stock, payable on August 26, 2025, to stockholders of record at the close of business on August 11, 2025. Moving forward, Kingstone expects to continue to pay a quarterly dividend to its stockholders.

Kingstone Companies has been added as a member of the broad-market Russell 3000 Index, with automatic inclusion in the small-cap Russell 2000 Index, effective after the U.S. market opens on Monday, June 30, 2025, as part of the 2025 Russell indexes reconstitution.