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Lancashire Holdings (LSE:LRE) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 4.49 (As of Apr. 27, 2025)


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What is Lancashire Holdings 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Lancashire Holdings's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was 4.49.


The historical rank and industry rank for Lancashire Holdings's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % or its related term are showing as below:

LSE:LRE' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.83   Med: 2.57   Max: 4.76
Current: 4.49


During the past 13 years, Lancashire Holdings's highest Yield on Cost was 4.76. The lowest was 1.83. And the median was 2.57.


LSE:LRE's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked better than
50.61% of 409 companies
in the Insurance industry
Industry Median: 4.44 vs LSE:LRE: 4.49

Competitive Comparison of Lancashire Holdings's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Insurance - Specialty subindustry, Lancashire Holdings's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %, along with its competitors' market caps and 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Lancashire Holdings's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Insurance Industry

For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, Lancashire Holdings's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Lancashire Holdings's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.


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Lancashire Holdings 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Calculation

Dividend Yield % and dividend growth of a stock is an important factor for income investors. But if company A raises its dividend constantly faster than company B, company A's future dividend yield might be much higher than Company B's even if their yields are the same now and their stock prices do not change.

Yield on Cost assumes that you buy and the stock today, and hold it for 5 years. If the company raises it dividends at the same rate as it did over the past 5 years, the dividends investors receive annually in 5 years relative to the stock price today.

Therefore, Yield-on-Cost of Lancashire Holdings is calculated as

Yield-on-Cost=Dividend Yield %*(1+Dividend Growth Rate)^5

Lancashire Holdings  (LSE:LRE) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Explanation

Of course the risk here is that the company may not raise its dividends as it did before. The key is to select the companies that can consistently raise its dividends. Usually companies with long history of raising dividends tend to do so.


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Lancashire Holdings Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
7 Par-la-Ville Road, Power House, Hamilton, BMU, HM 11
Lancashire Holdings Ltd is a provider of specialty reinsurance products with operations in London, Bermuda, the United States, and Australia. The company has two principal segments: reinsurance and insurance. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the Insurance segment. The Group's reinsurance segment comprises property reinsurance, specialty reinsurance, and casualty reinsurance. The insurance segment is usually written on a direct or facultative basis and comprises aviation insurance, casualty insurance, energy and marine insurance, property insurance, and specialty insurance. Geographically, the company generates the majority of its revenue from the United States and Canada.