Lancashire Holdings Limited (LON:LRE) Receives GBX 675.17 Average PT from Analysts

Shares of Lancashire Holdings Limited (LON:LRE) have received a consensus recommendation of “Hold” from the six ratings firms that are covering the stock, MarketBeat reports. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell recommendation, two have given a hold recommendation and three have issued a buy recommendation on 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 reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 698 price objective on shares of Lancashire in a report on Thursday, April 30th.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, insider Philip Broadley bought 4,225 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction 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. 5.32% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Lancashire Stock Up 1.0%

LON:LRE opened at GBX 638 on Monday. Lancashire has a 52 week low of GBX 549 and a 52 week high of GBX 700. The stock’s fifty day moving average is GBX 632.75 and its two-hundred day moving average is GBX 619.67. The stock has a market capitalization of £1.55 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 5.45, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.21 and a beta of 0.46. The company has a quick ratio of 1.18, a current ratio of 711.51 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 31.62.

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.