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Beazley (BEZ) Competitors

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GBX 886.50 -7.00 (-0.78%)
As of 05/2/2025 11:46 AM Eastern

BEZ vs. LRE, JUST, RQIH, PRU, AV, LGEN, AIBG, SMT, BIRG, and ADM

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), Aviva (AV), Legal & General Group (LGEN), AIB Group (AIBG), Scottish Mortgage (SMT), Bank of Ireland Group (BIRG), and Admiral Group (ADM). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.

Beazley vs.

Lancashire (LON:LRE) and Beazley (LON:BEZ) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Lancashire has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Beazley has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Lancashire pays an annual dividend of GBX 18 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Beazley pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Lancashire pays out 34.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Beazley pays out 8.8% 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.

In the previous week, Lancashire had 1 more articles in the media than Beazley. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Lancashire and 1 mentions for Beazley. Lancashire's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Beazley'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Lancashire
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Beazley
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

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.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
LancashireOutperform Votes
334
44.53%
Underperform Votes
416
55.47%
BeazleyOutperform Votes
685
63.90%
Underperform Votes
387
36.10%

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Lancashire£536.12M3.23£199.02M£52.4910.95
Beazley£6.57B1.04£1.50B£159.745.55

Lancashire currently has a consensus target price of GBX 770, suggesting a potential upside of 33.91%. Beazley has a consensus target price of GBX 962.50, suggesting a potential upside of 8.57%. Given Lancashire's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Lancashire is more favorable than Beazley.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Lancashire
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Beazley
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

60.5% of Lancashire shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.5% of Beazley shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Lancashire shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Beazley shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Lancashire37.12% 10.76% 6.75%
Beazley 22.82%32.60%9.50%

Summary

Beazley beats Lancashire on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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BEZ vs. The Competition

MetricBeazleyInsurance IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£6.81B£2.94B£3.89B£2.64B
Dividend Yield1.71%1.22%4.16%4.81%
P/E Ratio5.555.6012.81134.69
Price / Sales1.04120.491,712.66243,619.17
Price / Cash0.502.0450.5128.38
Price / Book1.431.483.434.53
Net Income£1.50B£474.99M£1.18B£5.91B
7 Day Performance-0.02%0.07%1.09%3.28%
1 Month Performance0.11%5.66%9.38%8.75%
1 Year Performance40.83%7.48%12.38%26.51%

Beazley Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BEZ
Beazley
1.0965 of 5 stars
GBX 886.50
-0.8%
GBX 962.50
+8.6%
+40.8%£6.81B£6.57B5.552,324
LRE
Lancashire
3.4227 of 5 stars
GBX 558
-1.6%
GBX 788.75
+41.4%
-3.5%£1.68B£536.12M10.63393News Coverage
JUST
Just Group
2.3204 of 5 stars
GBX 138.40
+2.4%
GBX 170
+22.8%
+31.7%£1.45B£2.66B16.101,181
RQIH
R&Q Insurance
N/AN/AN/AN/A£280,000.00£293.10M-0.09330
PRU
Prudential
2.8688 of 5 stars
GBX 803.60
+0.3%
GBX 1,188
+47.8%
+8.3%£26.44B£10.35B40.1439,900
AV
Aviva
1.6957 of 5 stars
GBX 543.80
+0.9%
GBX 585.67
+7.7%
+20.3%£14.61B£37.44B11.2126,382High Trading Volume
LGEN
Legal & General Group
2.3227 of 5 stars
GBX 237.90
+0.1%
GBX 267
+12.2%
-1.3%£13.94B£47.90B43.9211,956
AIBG
AIB Group
N/AGBX 494
+2.1%
N/A+22.9%£13.80B£5.27B6.7510,551
SMT
Scottish Mortgage
0.7379 of 5 stars
GBX 897.60
-0.6%
N/A+7.5%£10.98B£1.26B9.21N/ANews Coverage
BIRG
Bank of Ireland Group
N/AGBX 10.50
+0.6%
N/A+1.1%£10.53B£406.20B7.1210,845
ADM
Admiral Group
0.7226 of 5 stars
GBX 3,230
+0.7%
N/A+20.6%£9.88B£4.54B24.6542,000

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This page (LON:BEZ) was last updated on 5/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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