Worldscope Database Datatype Definitions Guide

Reinsurance & Adjustment Reserves
Issue 6
Alphabetical List of Field Definitions - R
Supplementary (Expense) Data, Annual Item; Field 01005
Insurance Companies:
REINSURANCE & ADJUSTMENT RESERVES represent the difference between the premiums for the
amount of insurance that the company has transferred (ceded) to another insurance company and the
amount of reinsurance risk that the company has assumed from other insurance companies.
Reinvestment Rate - Per Share
Profitability Ratio, Annual/Interim Item; Field 08651
All Industries:
Annual Time Series:
(Earnings Per Share - Dividends Per Share) / Average of Last Year's and Current Year’s Book Value Per
Share * 100
Interim Time Series:
(Trailing 12 Months Earnings Per Share – Trailing 12 Months Dividends Per Share) / Average of Last
Year's and Current Year’s Book Value Per Share * 100
This calculation uses restated data for last years values where available.
Reinvestment Rate Per Share – Fiscal
Profitability Ratio, Annual Item; Field 08653
All industries
((Current year EPS fiscal – Dividends per share) /Average of Last Year’s and Current Year’s Book Value Per
Share Fiscal) * 100
The calculation is based on Worldscope field 05491 Book Value Per Share-Fiscal, field 05202 Earnings
Per Share-Fiscal and field 05110 Dividends Per Share-Fiscal.
This calculation uses restated data for last years values where available.
This item is also available at the security level and is only available in the annual original time series.
Reinvestment Rate - Per Share - Current
Profitability Ratio, Current Item; Field 08652
All Industries:
(Earnings Per Share-Last 12 Mos. - Dividends Per Share-Last 12 Mos.) / Book Value Per Share a year
ago * 100
Reinvestment Rate - Per Share - 5 Yr Avg
Profitability Ratio, Annual Item; Field 08655
All Industries:
Arithmetic average of the last five years of Reinvestment Rate - Per Share
Reinvestment Rate - Total (%)
Profitability Ratio, Annual Item; Field 08656
All Industries:
(Net Income before Preferred Dividends - Preferred Dividends (Cash) - Common Dividends (Cash) /
Average of Last Year's and Current Year’s Common Equity * 100
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