Lancashire Holdings Limited (LON:LRE) Given Average Rating of “Hold” by Analysts

Shares of Lancashire Holdings Limited (LON:LRE) have received a consensus rating of “Hold” from the seven brokerages that are presently covering the firm, Marketbeat.com reports. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have assigned a hold rating and three have given a buy rating to the company. The average 1-year price target among brokerages that have issued a report on 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 Stock Performance

Shares of Lancashire stock opened at GBX 596.75 on Friday. The company has a market cap of £1.45 billion, a PE ratio of 5.10, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.21 and a beta of 0.44. Lancashire has a 52 week low of GBX 549 and a 52 week high of GBX 700. The business has a 50 day moving average price of GBX 601.66 and a 200-day moving average price of GBX 610.74. The company has a quick ratio of 1.18, a current ratio of 711.51 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 31.62.

Insider Activity at Lancashire

In other Lancashire news, insider Philip Broadley purchased 4,225 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, April 30th. The stock was bought at an average cost of GBX 566 per share, with a total value of £23,913.50. Insiders own 4.62% of the company’s stock.

About Lancashire

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.