(Bloomberg) — Aon Plc, the insurance broker that moved its headquarters to London from Chicago, declined the most since May after a measure of revenue growth slowed.
Aon slid $2.29 or 3.7%, to $59 at 4:04 p.m. in New York on Friday, the biggest drop on the 81-company Standard & Poor’s 500 Financials Index. The shares are up 6.1% this year.
Organic revenue growth, a measure of sales that excludes acquisitions and currency fluctuations, was 2% in the period, compared with 4% a year earlier, Aon said today in a statement. Total revenue of $2.92 billion fell short of the average estimate of $2.94 billion in a survey of analysts by Bloomberg.
“We do not find the organic growth numbers particularly encouraging,” Charles Sebaski, an analyst at BMO Capital Markets, wrote today in a research note. “We would expect the shares to trade flat to down.”
Aon is the second-largest insurance broker by market value. No. 1 Marsh & McLennan Cos., based in New York, slipped 0.7% to $37.33.
