Lancashire Holdings Limited (LON:LRE - Get Free Report)'s stock price passed above its two hundred day moving average during trading on Wednesday . The stock has a two hundred day moving average of GBX 599.20 ($8.14) and traded as high as GBX 599.63 ($8.15). Lancashire shares last traded at GBX 590 ($8.02), with a volume of 393,252 shares trading hands.
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades
Separately, Berenberg Bank started coverage on Lancashire in a research report on Thursday, May 29th. They set a "hold" rating and a GBX 670 ($9.11) price target on the stock.
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Lancashire Stock Up 0.3%
The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 31.26, a quick ratio of 1.18 and a current ratio of 33.62. The firm's 50 day moving average price is GBX 586.31 and its two-hundred day moving average price is GBX 599.20. The company has a market cap of £1.79 billion, a P/E ratio of 11.28, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.21 and a beta of 0.62.
Insiders Place Their Bets
In other news, insider Philip Broadley bought 1,800 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, May 2nd. The shares were acquired at an average price of GBX 583 ($7.92) per share, with a total value of £10,494 ($14,262.03). Also, insider Sally Williams acquired 868 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, June 17th. The stock was acquired at an average price of GBX 575 ($7.81) per share, for a total transaction of £4,991 ($6,783.09). 0.64% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.
About Lancashire
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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.
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