So far in 2025, the Nigerian insurance sector, tracked by the NGX Insurance Index, has delivered an impressive year-to-date gain of 74.18%, ranking as the second-best performing sector after consumer goods at 86.11%.
The index, which opened the year at 719.9, has ridden on a hefty market volume of over 19 billion shares, smashing through the 1,100-point mark and now sitting firmly at 1,250.6.
Much of this surge has come in the third quarter, after a moderate second quarter and a bearish first quarter in which the sector fell 2.71% to 698.5 as price activity in some stocks stalled.
In August alone, the NGX Insurance Index is up over 40%, a surge that has briefly made it the market’s top performer earlier in the month.
That being said, here are the top 10 insurance stocks that have led the sector’s bullish run in 2025, among many others also posting gains this year.
NEM Insurance Plc comes in 2nd with a stellar 201.37% year-to-date gain.
It started at N10.95 and ended each month higher, climbing to N17.90 by the end of Q2 before surging 84% in Q3 to reach N33 in August.
Its H1 financials revealed premiums up to N96.8 billion from N66 billion, claims more than doubling to N20.5 billion from N9.1 billion, and insurance revenue soaring 65.86% to N75.4 billion.
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