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Legal & General Group (LGEN) Share Price, News & Analysis

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GBX 243.02 +2.72 (+1.13%)
As of 03/14/2025 12:48 PM Eastern

About Legal & General Group Stock (LON:LGEN)

Key Stats

Today's Range
240
244.90
50-Day Range
220.36
255.03
52-Week Range
211.40
266.20
Volume
14.03 million shs
Average Volume
17.53 million shs
Market Capitalization
£14.24 billion
P/E Ratio
44.86
Dividend Yield
8.64%
Price Target
GBX 267
Consensus Rating
Moderate Buy

Company Overview

Legal & General Group Plc provides various insurance products and services in the United Kingdom, the United States, and internationally. It operates in Legal & General Retirement Institutional (LGRI), Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM), Legal & General Capital (LGC), and Retail segments. The LGRI segment offers annuity contracts with guaranteed income for a specified time; and longevity insurance products. The LGIM segment offers index fund management; active fixed income funds and liquidity funds; active equity management; solution and liability driven investment; multi-asset funds; corporate pension scheme solutions; and real assets. The LGC segment provides investment strategy and implementation, and direct investment and structuring services. The Retail segment offers protection products, such as health, disability, critical illness, and accident; individual term assurance; reinsurance; savings and death benefits; annuities; lifetime mortgages; lifetime care plans; retirement interest only mortgages; and workplace savings scheme that provides corporate pension scheme solutions. It is also involved in the unit trust and institutional fund management, mortgage finance, treasury, building project and modular housing development, general insurance, and open-ended investment businesses. In addition, the company engages in the investment, operation, management, trading, and letting and operation of leased real estate; and construction of commercial buildings, financial intermediation, pension tracing and transfer, insurance agents and brokers, fund general partner, commercial lending, venture capital investing, contractual scheme, investor alternative investment fund, collective asset-management, and investment management activities; and provision of investment advisory, business information consultancy, and technology services. Legal & General Group Plc was founded in 1836 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

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Legal & General Group Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

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30th Percentile Overall Score

LGEN MarketRank™: 

Legal & General Group scored higher than 30% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

  • Consensus Rating

    Legal & General Group has received a consensus rating of Moderate Buy. The company's average rating score is 2.80, and is based on 2 buy ratings, 2 hold ratings, and no sell ratings.

  • Amount of Analyst Coverage

    Legal & General Group has only been the subject of 1 research reports in the past 90 days.

  • Read more about Legal & General Group's stock forecast and price target.
  • Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

    The P/E ratio of Legal & General Group is 44.86, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 23.47.

  • Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

    The P/E ratio of Legal & General Group is 44.86, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the Financial Services sector average P/E ratio of about 15.92.

  • Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

    Legal & General Group has a PEG Ratio of 2.34. PEG Ratios above 1 indicate that a company could be overvalued.

  • Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

    Legal & General Group has a P/B Ratio of 3.90. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

  • Short Interest

    There is no current short interest data available for LGEN.
  • Dividend Leadership

    Legal & General Group is a leading dividend payer. It pays a dividend yield of 8.47%, putting its dividend yield in the top 25% of dividend-paying stocks.

  • Dividend Growth

    Legal & General Group does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

  • Dividend Coverage

    The dividend payout ratio of Legal & General Group is 387.68%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable.

  • Read more about Legal & General Group's dividend.
  • Short Interest

    There is no current short interest data available for LGEN.
  • News Sentiment

    Legal & General Group has a news sentiment score of 0.91. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a higher news sentiment than the 0.65 average news sentiment score of Financial Services companies.
  • News Coverage This Week

    MarketBeat has tracked 18 news articles for Legal & General Group this week, compared to 3 articles on an average week.
  • Search Interest

    7 people have searched for LGEN on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 40% compared to the previous 30 days.
  • MarketBeat Follows

    Only 10 people have added Legal & General Group to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days. This is a decrease of -29% compared to the previous 30 days.
  • Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

    In the past three months, Legal & General Group insiders have bought more of their company's stock than they have sold. Specifically, they have bought £56,429.35 in company stock and sold GBX 0 in company stock.

  • Percentage Held by Insiders

    Only 0.88% of the stock of Legal & General Group is held by insiders.

  • Percentage Held by Institutions

    47.17% of the stock of Legal & General Group is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

  • Read more about Legal & General Group's insider trading history.
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LGEN Stock News Headlines

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Barclays Keeps Their Buy Rating on Legal & General (LGEN)
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LGEN Stock Analysis - Frequently Asked Questions

Legal & General Group's stock was trading at GBX 229.80 at the beginning of the year. Since then, LGEN shares have increased by 5.8% and is now trading at GBX 243.02.
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Legal & General Group Plc (LON:LGEN) posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, March, 12th. The financial services provider reported $2.89 EPS for the quarter. Legal & General Group had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 7.79% and a net margin of 0.67%.

Legal & General Group's Board of Directors initiated a stock buyback plan on Wednesday, March 12th 2025, which permits the company to repurchase 0 outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This permits the company to purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are generally an indication that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

Shares of LGEN stock and other U.K. stocks can be purchased through online brokerage accounts that support trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSX). Some U.K. companies can be purchased through major U.S. brokerages in the form of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), which are placeholder equities held in a trust by a bank that represent shares of a foreign stock.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some other companies that Legal & General Group investors own include Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY), Aviva (AV), Barclays (BARC), BP (BP), GSK (GSK), Vodafone Group Public (VOD) and Meta Platforms (META).

Company Calendar

Last Earnings
3/12/2025
Today
3/15/2025

Industry, Sector and Symbol

Stock Exchange
LON
Industry
Asset Management
Sub-Industry
N/A
Current Symbol
LON:LGEN
CIK
N/A
Fax
N/A
Employees
11,956
Year Founded
N/A

Price Target and Rating

Average Stock Price Target
GBX 267
High Stock Price Target
GBX 295
Low Stock Price Target
GBX 245
Potential Upside/Downside
+9.9%
Consensus Rating
Moderate Buy
Rating Score (0-4)
2.80
Research Coverage
5 Analysts

Profitability

Trailing P/E Ratio
44.86
Forward P/E Ratio
10.03
P/E Growth
2.34
Net Income
£319.08 million
Pretax Margin
N/A

Debt

Sales & Book Value

Annual Sales
£47.90 billion
Cash Flow
GBX 403.23 per share
Price / Cash Flow
0.60
Book Value
GBX 62.31 per share
Price / Book
3.90

Miscellaneous

Outstanding Shares
5,860,673,948
Free Float
N/A
Market Cap
£14.24 billion
Optionable
Not Optionable
Beta
1.31
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This page (LON:LGEN) was last updated on 3/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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