LRE vs. RQIH, HL, FCIT, PHNX, MNG, BEZ, HSX, PCT, ATST, and INVP
Should you be buying Lancashire stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lancashire include R&Q Insurance (RQIH), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Phoenix Group (PHNX), M&G (MNG), Beazley (BEZ), Hiscox (HSX), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Alliance Trust (ATST), and Investec Group (INVP). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Lancashire (LON:LRE) and R&Q Insurance (LON:RQIH) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.
Lancashire received 215 more outperform votes than R&Q Insurance when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.00% of users gave R&Q Insurance an outperform vote while only 44.46% of users gave Lancashire an outperform vote.
Lancashire has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, R&Q Insurance has a beta of 0.48, suggesting that its stock price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Lancashire had 1 more articles in the media than R&Q Insurance. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Lancashire and 1 mentions for R&Q Insurance. R&Q Insurance's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Lancashire's score of 0.65 indicating that R&Q Insurance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
56.5% of Lancashire shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.2% of R&Q Insurance shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Lancashire shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 24.3% of R&Q Insurance shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Lancashire has higher revenue and earnings than R&Q Insurance. R&Q Insurance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lancashire, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lancashire pays an annual dividend of GBX 16 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. R&Q Insurance pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 140.6%. Lancashire pays out 1,584.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. R&Q Insurance pays out -243.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. R&Q Insurance is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Lancashire has a net margin of 26.70% compared to R&Q Insurance's net margin of -118.70%. Lancashire's return on equity of 22.69% beat R&Q Insurance's return on equity.
Lancashire presently has a consensus target price of GBX 781, indicating a potential upside of 28.03%. Given Lancashire's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Lancashire is more favorable than R&Q Insurance.
Summary
Lancashire beats R&Q Insurance on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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