Lancashire (LRE) Share Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

Lancashire Holdings Limited, together with its subsidiaries, provides specialty insurance and reinsurance products in London, Bermuda, Australia, and the United States. The company operates through two segments, Reinsurance and Insurance. It offers property direct and facultative, property political risk and sovereign risk, and property terrorism and political violence insurance products; and aviation AV52, aviation consortium, airline hull and liability, and satellite insurance products. The company also provides Marine Builders Risk, marine hull, total loss and war, mortgagees interests insurance, mortgagees additional perils, excess protection and indemnity, marine war, and builder's risks; and energy insurance products covering upstream operational, downstream and onshore operational, and upstream construction all risks business. In addition, it offers property reinsurance, specialty and casualty reinsurance, and marine reinsurance; accident and health insurance, as well as consortia arrangements within Lloyd; and general insurance, support, insurance agency, line brokerage, Lloyd's managing agency and service, and insurance mediation services. Lancashire Holdings Limited was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: 621 to 639
• 50-Day Range: 619 to 712
• 52-Week Range: 559 to 721
• Volume: 195,132 shs
• Average Volume: 719,872 shs
• Market Capitalization: £1.52 billion
• P/E Ratio: 561.06
• Dividend Yield: 2.84%
• Price Target: GBX 781
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy

Lancashire Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

Lancashire scored higher than 56% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 2.3 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Moderate Buy

Consensus Rating

Lancashire has received a consensus rating of Moderate Buy. The company's average rating score is 2.60, and is based on 3 buy ratings, 2 hold ratings, and no sell ratings.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

Lancashire has only been the subject of 1 research reports in the past 90 days.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 1.9 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: N/A

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of Lancashire is 561.06, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 128.20.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of Lancashire is 561.06, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the Financial Services sector average P/E ratio of about 412.89.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

Lancashire has a PEG Ratio of 0.21. PEG Ratios below 1 indicate that a company could be undervalued.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

Lancashire has a P/B Ratio of 0.97. P/B Ratios below 1 indicate that a company could be undervalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: N/A
• Short Interest Level: N/A

Short Interest

There is no current short interest data available for LRE.

Dividend

• Score: 0.8 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Weak

Dividend Yield

Lancashire pays a meaningful dividend of 2.70%, higher than the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.

Dividend Growth

Lancashire does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

Dividend Coverage

The dividend payout ratio of Lancashire is 1,592.92%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable.

Sustainability and ESG

• Score: N/A
• Environmental Score: N/A

Short Interest

There is no current short interest data available for LRE.

News and Social Media

• Score: 2.1 / 5
• News Sentiment: N/A

News Sentiment

Lancashire has a news sentiment score of 0.75. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a higher news sentiment than the 0.41 average news sentiment score of Financial Services companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 1 news article for Lancashire this week, compared to 1 article on an average week.

Company Ownership

• Score: 3.3 / 5
• Insider Trading: Acquiring Shares

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, Lancashire insiders have bought more of their company's stock than they have sold. Specifically, they have bought £61,000 in company stock and sold GBX 0 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

Only 0.64% of the stock of Lancashire is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

60.50% of the stock of Lancashire is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

LRE Stock Analysis - Frequently Asked Questions

How have LRE shares performed this year?

Lancashire's stock was trading at GBX 624 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, LRE stock has increased by 1.6% and is now trading at GBX 634.
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How do I buy shares of Lancashire?

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What other stocks do shareholders of Lancashire own?

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some other companies that Lancashire investors own include Centamin (CEY), InterDigital (IDCC), Playtech (PTEC), STAG Industrial (STAG), Tullow Oil (TLW), Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) and Bioventix (BVXP).

Company Calendar

• Ex-Dividend for 9/13 Dividend: 8/15/2024
• Dividend Payable: 9/13/2024
• Today: 11/02/2024

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: LON
• Sector: Financial Services
• Industry: Insurance - Specialty
• Sub-Industry: Construction
• Current Symbol: LON:LRE
• CUSIP: N/A
• CIK: N/A
• Web: www.lancashiregroup.com
• Phone: +44-20-72644000
• Fax: N/A
• Employees: 393
• Year Founded: N/A

Price Target and Rating

• Average Stock Price Target: GBX 781
• High Stock Price Target: GBX 825
• Low Stock Price Target: GBX 740
• Potential Upside/Downside: +23.2%
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.60
• Research Coverage: 5 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year): GBX 1.13
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 561.06
• Forward P/E Ratio: 6.40
• P/E Growth: 0.21
• Net Income: £363.10 million
• Net Margins: 26.72%
• Pretax Margin: N/A
• Return on Equity: 23.96%
• Return on Assets: 6.75%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 30.12
• Current Ratio: 25.01
• Quick Ratio: 1.18

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: £1.36 billion
• Price / Sales: 1.12
• Cash Flow: GBX 292.31 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 2.17
• Book Value: GBX 651 per share
• Price / Book: 0.97

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 240,050,000
• Free Float: N/A
• Market Cap: £1.52 billion
• Optionable: Not Optionable
• Beta: 0.62