American Financial Group filings document the regulatory record of a specialty property and casualty insurance holding company. Its 8-K reports include operating and financial results, investor supplements, dividend declarations, share repurchase authorization, executive compensation plan matters and debt-related capital-structure disclosures.
AFG's proxy materials cover board elections, auditor ratification and advisory executive compensation votes. Its securities disclosures identify NYSE-listed common stock under AFG and listed subordinated debentures, while material-event filings describe senior note and debenture obligations, governance actions and other corporate finance matters.
American Financial Group senior executive reports share disposition
Mark A. Weiss, Sr. VP & General Counsel of American Financial Group, reported a tax-withholding disposition of 658 shares of common stock on February 23, 2026 at $129.8475 per share. After this transaction, he directly owned 8,715 shares. A related trust held 9,461 shares indirectly following the reported changes.
American Financial Group senior vice president and CFO Brian S. Hertzman reported a tax-related share disposition and updated his plan holdings. On February 22, 2026, he disposed of 727 shares of common stock at $129.8475 per share to satisfy tax obligations, leaving 10,573 directly held shares.
The filing also updates indirect holdings in the company’s employee stock purchase plan, dividend reinvestment plan, and retirement plan as of December 31, 2025, reflecting ongoing participation in these programs rather than new market purchases or sales.
American Financial Group, Inc. approved a new 2026 Senior Executive Long-Term Incentive Compensation Plan to replace its prior plan from 2016. The program is designed to support long-term success by offering senior executives competitive, performance-based cash bonuses tied to pre-established criteria set by the Compensation Committee.
The new plan is described as substantially similar to the former long-term incentive plan, and no awards have yet been granted under it. The full plan document is available as an exhibit, providing detailed terms and conditions for future executive incentive awards.
American Financial Group filed a Form 13F reporting its institutional holdings as managed through Great American Insurance Group. The report lists 81 holdings with a combined reported market value of $275,814,997. The filing was signed by Robert A. Dee on 02-12-2026.
American Financial Group, Inc. reported that it has released its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2025 and the full year ended December 31, 2025 through a press release and an Investor Supplement available on its website. These materials, attached as exhibits, provide detailed operating and financial information for the period.
In the same announcement, the Board of Directors declared a special, one-time cash dividend of $1.50 per share on the company’s common stock. This dividend will be paid on February 25, 2026 to shareholders who are on record as of February 16, 2026, providing an additional cash return beyond any regular dividends.
The Vanguard Group has filed an amended Schedule 13G reporting its beneficial ownership of American Financial Group common stock. Vanguard reports beneficial ownership of 7,297,408 shares, representing 8.74% of the outstanding common stock as of 12/31/2025.
Vanguard has shared voting power over 514,751 shares and shared dispositive power over 7,297,408 shares, with no sole voting or dispositive power. The shares are held for clients, who have rights to dividends and sale proceeds, and no other single client exceeds 5% of the class.
Vanguard states the position was acquired and is held in the ordinary course of business and not to change or influence control of American Financial Group. The filing notes an internal realignment at Vanguard on January 12, 2026, after which certain subsidiaries are expected to report beneficial ownership separately.
American Financial Group director Stephen Craig Lindner Jr. reported gift-related movements in indirect holdings of the company’s common stock on January 28, 2026. The transactions involved 276, 441, and 147 shares at a price of $0 per share, all classified as indirect ownership.
After these transactions, trusts associated with him held 326,535 and 53,620 shares, while 10,327 shares were held indirectly through his spouse. In addition, he indirectly held 4,212.01 common-share equivalents through the company retirement plan as of December 31, 2025.
American Financial Group Inc. senior vice president Michelle A. Gillis reported an insider stock transaction dated 12/29/2025. The filing shows a transaction in 542 shares of common stock with transaction code "G" at a reported price of $0, leaving 11,454 shares of common stock held as "Indirect #2" afterward. In addition, she holds 13,100 shares of common stock directly and 29,790.074 shares indirectly as "Indirect #1".
The report also lists 3,249.7158 shares owned through the issuer's Employee Stock Purchase Plan based on a plan statement dated as of 12/31/2024, and 11.0597 ESPP DRIP shares held as of 12/31/2024. The filing is made as a Form 4 by one reporting person.
American Financial Group Inc. director and Co-CEO reports stock gift
Carl H. Lindner III, a director and Co‑CEO of American Financial Group Inc. (AFG), reported a transaction in company common stock dated 12/16/2025. The filing shows a disposition of 403 shares of common stock coded "G", indicating a bona fide gift at a reported price of $0 per share.
After this transaction, Lindner reports indirect beneficial ownership of 3,142,584 AFG shares through "Indirect #1", and additional indirect holdings of 343,162, 838,480, 525,043, 493,602, and 103,131 shares through various trusts and entities described in the footnotes. No derivative securities positions are reported in this filing.
American Financial Group Inc. director S. Craig Lindner Jr. reported a small stock gift. On 12/18/2025, an indirect account labeled "Indirect #1" disposed of 44 shares of common stock in a transaction coded "G," which indicates a gift, at a stated price of $0. After this transaction, Lindner Jr. indirectly beneficially owned 326,388 shares of common stock through trusts for which he has voting and dispositive power, 53,179 shares through another indirect account labeled "Indirect #2" held for the benefit of his children, and 10,180 shares through his spouse.