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Lancashire (LON:LRE) Stock Crosses Above 200-Day Moving Average - Time to Sell?

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Lancashire Holdings Limited (LON:LRE - Get Free Report)'s share price passed above its 200-day moving average during trading on Wednesday . The stock has a 200-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.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of brokerages recently commented on LRE. Citigroup lowered their target price on shares of Lancashire from GBX 709 ($9.63) to GBX 656 ($8.91) and set a "buy" rating for the company in a research note on Thursday. Berenberg Bank assumed coverage on Lancashire in a report on Thursday, May 29th. They set a "hold" rating and a GBX 670 ($9.10) price target on the stock.

Read Our Latest Stock Analysis on LRE

Lancashire Stock Down 0.5%

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 has a market capitalization of £1.77 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 11.18, a PEG ratio of 0.21 and a beta of 0.62. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of GBX 586.31 and a 200 day moving average price of GBX 599.20.

Insider Activity

In other Lancashire news, insider Philip Broadley purchased 1,800 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Friday, May 2nd. The shares were acquired at an average cost of GBX 583 ($7.92) per share, for a total transaction of £10,494 ($14,256.22). Also, insider Sally Williams purchased 868 shares of the company's stock in a transaction on Tuesday, June 17th. The shares were bought at an average cost of GBX 575 ($7.81) per share, with a total value of £4,991 ($6,780.33). Corporate insiders own 0.64% of the company's stock.

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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