We recently published an article titled Why These 15 Insurance Stocks Are Skyrocketing So Far In 2025. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Globe Life Inc. (NYSE:GL) stands against the other insurance stocks.

Insurance stocks are back in the spotlight after Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder report for 2024. These stocks are not only benefiting from stable cash flows, but they are also benefiting from higher investment yields and premium growth as inflation trends have benefited insurers.

Moreover, AI and tech innovations are starting to spill over into many other industries, which include insurance. It is also benefiting from a demographic tailwind as the growing “silver segment” requires more life and health insurance.

As such, it is worth looking into some of the top performers in this industry. There are good reasons behind each of the stocks’ uptrends.

Insurance house, car and family health live concept. The insurance agent presents the toys that symbolize the coverage.

Methodology

For this article, I screened the top-performing defense stocks year-to-date. Stocks that I have covered recently will be excluded from this list.

I will also mention the number of hedge fund investors in these stocks. Why are we interested in the stocks that hedge funds pile into? The reason is simple: our research has shown that we can outperform the market by imitating the top stock picks of the best hedge funds. Our quarterly newsletter's strategy selects 14 small-cap and large-cap stocks every quarter and has returned 373.4% since May 2014, beating its benchmark by 218 percentage points (see more details here).

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Globe Life Inc. (NYSE:GL)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders In Q4 2024: 43

Globe Life Inc. (NYSE:GL) is an insurance holding company that provides life and supplemental health insurance products and annuities to middle-income families.

The stock is up significantly so far in 2025 after solid Q4 2025 earnings results. It posted net income of $3.01 per diluted share and net operating income of $3.14 per share. Analysts upped their price targets on this stock after its earnings results, especially after it announced a new $1.8 billion share repurchase authorization, replacing the previous $1.3 billion program.

It also announced plans to acquire a 200,000-square-foot office building in McKinney, Texas, with room for future expansion. Globe Life projected net operating income between $13.45 to $14.05 per diluted share for 2025.

The consensus price target of $135.5 implies 10.6% upside.

Globe Life Inc. (NYSE:GL) is up 10.16% year-to-date.

Overall GL ranks 10th on our list of the insurance stocks that are skyrocketing so far in 2025. While we acknowledge the potential of GL as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter time frame. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than GL but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.

 

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Disclosure: None. This article is originally published at Insider Monkey.