BEZ vs. LRE, HSX, HL, MNG, PHNX, FCIT, PCT, ATST, INVP, and 3IN
Should you be buying Beazley stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Beazley include Lancashire (LRE), Hiscox (HSX), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), M&G (MNG), Phoenix Group (PHNX), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Alliance Trust (ATST), Investec Group (INVP), and 3i Infrastructure (3IN). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Beazley (LON:BEZ) and Lancashire (LON:LRE) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.
71.4% of Beazley shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.0% of Lancashire shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Beazley shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Lancashire shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Beazley pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Lancashire pays an annual dividend of GBX 16 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Beazley pays out 1,166.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Lancashire pays out 1,523.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Beazley presently has a consensus target price of GBX 906, indicating a potential upside of 43.92%. Lancashire has a consensus target price of GBX 792, indicating a potential upside of 32.89%. Given Beazley's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Beazley is more favorable than Lancashire.
In the previous week, Beazley and Beazley both had 7 articles in the media. Beazley's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Lancashire's score of 0.01 indicating that Beazley is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lancashire has a net margin of 26.70% compared to Beazley's net margin of 20.14%. Beazley's return on equity of 30.04% beat Lancashire's return on equity.
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.
Beazley has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lancashire has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Beazley received 351 more outperform votes than Lancashire when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.83% of users gave Beazley an outperform vote while only 44.39% of users gave Lancashire an outperform vote.
Summary
Beazley beats Lancashire on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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