BEZ vs. LRE, HSX, MNG, PHNX, PCT, FCIT, HL, ATST, INVP, and EMG
Should you be buying Beazley stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Beazley include Lancashire (LRE), Hiscox (HSX), M&G (MNG), Phoenix Group (PHNX), Polar Capital Technology (PCT), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), Alliance Trust (ATST), Investec Group (INVP), and Man Group (EMG). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Lancashire (LON:LRE) and Beazley (LON:BEZ) are both financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
Lancashire presently has a consensus price target of GBX 768, indicating a potential upside of 29.84%. Beazley has a consensus price target of GBX 820, indicating a potential upside of 22.57%. Given Beazley's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Lancashire is more favorable than Beazley.
Lancashire has a net margin of 26.70% compared to Lancashire's net margin of 20.14%. Lancashire's return on equity of 30.04% beat Beazley's return on equity.
Lancashire pays an annual dividend of GBX 16 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Beazley pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. 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 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 has a beta of 0.58, meaning that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Beazley has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
In the previous week, Beazley had 1 more articles in the media than Lancashire. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Beazley and 0 mentions for Lancashire. Lancashire's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Beazley's score of -0.68 indicating that Beazley is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Beazley received 349 more outperform votes than Lancashire when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.73% of users gave Beazley an outperform vote while only 44.37% of users gave Lancashire an outperform vote.
54.9% of Lancashire shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.4% of Beazley shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Lancashire shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Beazley shares are owned 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.
Summary
Beazley beats Lancashire on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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