Lancashire (LRE) Share Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

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. The company also provides Marine Builders Risk, marine hull, total loss and war, mortgagees interests insurance, mortgagees additional perils, excess protection and indemnity, marine war, and builder's risks; and energy insurance products covering upstream operational, downstream and onshore operational, and upstream construction all risks business. In addition, it offers property reinsurance, specialty and casualty reinsurance, and marine reinsurance; accident and health insurance, as well as consortia arrangements within Lloyd; and general insurance, support, insurance agency, line brokerage, Lloyd's managing agency and service, and insurance mediation services. Lancashire Holdings Limited was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: 566 to 576
• 50-Day Range: 567.83 to 670
• 52-Week Range: 549 to 700
• Volume: 1.90 million shs
• Average Volume: 3.00 million shs
• Market Capitalization: £1.38 billion
• P/E Ratio: 4.85
• Dividend Yield: 3.13%
• Price Target: GBX 675.17
• Consensus Rating: Hold

Lancashire Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

Lancashire scored higher than 84% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 2.9 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Hold

Consensus Rating

Lancashire has received a consensus rating of Hold. The company's average rating score is 2.29, and is based on no strong buy ratings, 3 buy ratings, 3 hold ratings, and 1 sell rating.

Upside Potential

Lancashire has a consensus price target of GBX 675.17, representing about 18.9% upside from its current price of GBX 567.83.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

Lancashire has only been the subject of 1 research reports in the past 90 days.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 3.1 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: N/A

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of Lancashire is 4.85, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 38.56.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of Lancashire is 4.85, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Financial Services sector average P/E ratio of about 15.82.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

Lancashire has a PEG Ratio of 0.21. PEG Ratios below 1 indicate that a company could be undervalued.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

Lancashire has a P/B Ratio of 0.93. P/B Ratios below 1 indicate that a company could be undervalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: N/A
• Short Interest Level: N/A

Short Interest

There is no current short interest data available for LRE.

Dividend

• Score: 1.7 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Weak

Dividend Yield

Lancashire pays a meaningful dividend of 3.13%, higher than the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.

Dividend Growth

Lancashire does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

Dividend Coverage

The dividend payout ratio of Lancashire is 20.73%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.

News and Social Media

• Score: 2.3 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.62

News Sentiment

Lancashire has a news sentiment score of 0.62. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This news sentiment score is similar to the average news sentiment of Financial Services companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 10 news articles for Lancashire this week, compared to 0 articles on an average week.

Company Ownership

• Score: 3.0 / 5
• Insider Trading: Acquiring Shares

Net Insider Buying

Over the last three months, insiders have purchased a net £23,913.50 in company stock, which represents 0.0017% of the company's market cap.

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, Lancashire insiders have bought more of their company's stock than they have sold. Specifically, they have bought £23,913.50 in company stock and sold GBX 0 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

4.62% of the stock of Lancashire is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

62.00% of the stock of Lancashire is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

LRE Stock Analysis - Frequently Asked Questions

How have LRE shares performed this year?

Lancashire's stock was trading at GBX 641 at the start of the year. Since then, LRE shares have decreased by 11.4% and is now trading at GBX 567.83.

How do I buy shares of Lancashire?

Shares of LRE stock and other U.K. stocks can be purchased through online brokerage accounts that support trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSX). Some U.K. companies can be purchased through major U.S. brokerages in the form of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), which are placeholder equities held in a trust by a bank that represent shares of a foreign stock.

What other stocks do shareholders of Lancashire own?

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some other companies that Lancashire investors own include Centamin (CEY), InterDigital (IDCC), Playtech (PTEC), Stag Industrial (STAG), Tullow Oil (TLW), Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) and Bioventix (BVXP).

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: LON
• Sector: Financial Services
• Industry: Insurance - Specialty
• Sub-Industry: Construction
• Current Symbol: LON:LRE
• CIK: N/A
• Web: www.lancashiregroup.com
• Phone: +44-20-72644000
• Fax: N/A
• Employees: 393
• Year Founded: N/A

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for Lancashire: GBX 675.17
• High Price Target: GBX 725
• Low Price Target: GBX 625
• Potential Upside/Downside: +18.9%
• Consensus Rating: Hold
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.29
• Research Coverage: 7 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): GBX 117
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 4.85
• Forward P/E Ratio: 5.73
• P/E Growth: 0.21
• Net Income: £199.02 million
• Net Margins: 14.66%
• Pretax Margin: N/A
• Return on Equity: 11.24%
• Return on Assets: 6.75%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 31.62
• Current Ratio: 711.51
• Quick Ratio: 1.18

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: £1.88 billion
• Price / Sales: 0.73
• Cash Flow: GBX 261.80 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 2.17
• Book Value: GBX 613.19 per share
• Price / Book: 0.93

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 242,560,000
• Free Float: N/A
• Market Cap: £1.38 billion
• Optionable: Not Optionable
• Beta: 0.48