BEZ vs. LRE, JUST, RQIH, PRU, AIBG, LGEN, SMT, AV, PSH, and BIRG
Should you be buying Beazley stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Beazley include Lancashire (LRE), Just Group (JUST), R&Q Insurance (RQIH), Prudential (PRU), AIB Group (AIBG), Legal & General Group (LGEN), Scottish Mortgage (SMT), Aviva (AV), Pershing Square (PSH), and Bank of Ireland Group (BIRG). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Beazley vs.
Beazley (LON:BEZ) and Lancashire (LON:LRE) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and media sentiment.
Lancashire has a net margin of 37.12% compared to Beazley's net margin of 22.82%. Beazley's return on equity of 32.60% beat Lancashire's return on equity.
In the previous week, Beazley had 1 more articles in the media than Lancashire. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Beazley and 1 mentions for Lancashire. Beazley's average media sentiment score of 0.15 beat Lancashire's score of -0.99 indicating that Beazley is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Beazley pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Lancashire pays an annual dividend of GBX 18 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Beazley pays out 8.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lancashire pays out 34.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Beazley presently has a consensus target price of GBX 943, indicating a potential upside of 15.21%. Lancashire has a consensus target price of GBX 781, indicating a potential upside of 35.59%. Given Lancashire's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Lancashire is more favorable than Beazley.
Beazley received 351 more outperform votes than Lancashire when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.90% of users gave Beazley an outperform vote while only 44.53% of users gave Lancashire an outperform vote.
Beazley has higher revenue and earnings than Lancashire. Beazley is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lancashire, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
72.5% of Beazley shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.5% of Lancashire shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Beazley shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Lancashire shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Beazley has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lancashire has a beta of 0.62, suggesting that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Beazley beats Lancashire on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:BEZ) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
