Lancashire Holdings Limited (LON:LRE) Receives Consensus Rating of “Hold” from Analysts

Shares of Lancashire Holdings Limited (LON:LRE) have been given an average rating of “Hold” by the six ratings firms that are presently covering the firm, MarketBeat Ratings reports. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell recommendation, two have assigned a hold recommendation and three have given a buy recommendation to the company. The average 1 year price target among analysts that have covered the stock in the last year is GBX 675.17.

Separately, Jefferies Financial Group reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 698 target price on shares of Lancashire in a report on Thursday, April 30th.

Lancashire Trading Up 2.2%

LRE opened at GBX 652.50 on Monday. Lancashire has a 12 month low of GBX 549 and a 12 month high of GBX 700. The stock has a market capitalization of £1.58 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 5.58, a PEG ratio of 0.21 and a beta of 0.46. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 31.62, a current ratio of 711.51 and a quick ratio of 1.18. The business has a fifty day moving average price of GBX 634.30 and a 200 day moving average price of GBX 620.05.

Insider Activity at Lancashire

In other Lancashire news, insider Philip Broadley bought 4,225 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, April 30th. The shares were purchased at an average price of GBX 566 per share, with a total value of £23,913.50. Insiders own 5.32% of the company’s stock.

Lancashire Company Profile

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.