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

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.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: 308.90 to 312.80
• 50-Day Range: 266.50 to 314.93
• 52-Week Range: 217.20 to 318.10
• Volume: 32.89 million shs
• Average Volume: 35.17 million shs
• Market Capitalization: £16.99 billion
• P/E Ratio: 31.94
• Dividend Yield: 7.02%
• Price Target: GBX 275.43
• Consensus Rating: Reduce

Legal & General Group Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

Legal & General Group scored higher than 50% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 1.9 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Reduce

Consensus Rating

Legal & General Group has received a consensus rating of Reduce. The company's average rating score is 1.86, and is based on no strong buy ratings, 2 buy ratings, 2 hold ratings, and 3 sell ratings.

Downside Risk

Legal & General Group has a consensus price target of GBX 275.43, representing about 11.5% downside from its current price of GBX 311.12.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

Legal & General Group has been the subject of 5 research reports in the past 90 days, demonstrating strong analyst interest in this stock.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 0.6 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: N/A

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of Legal & General Group is 31.94, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 39.43.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of Legal & General Group is 31.94, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the Finance sector average P/E ratio of about 29.01.

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 4.99. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: N/A
• Short Interest Level: N/A

Short Interest

There is no current short interest data available for LGEN.

Dividend

• Score: 1.7 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Weak

Dividend Leadership

Legal & General Group is a leading dividend payer. It pays a dividend yield of 7.02%, 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 220.53%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable.

News and Social Media

• Score: 4.3 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.93

News Sentiment

Legal & General Group has a news sentiment score of 0.93. 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 0.77 average news sentiment score of Finance companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 27 news articles for Legal & General Group this week, compared to 5 articles on an average week.

Search Interest

5 people have searched for LGEN on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 25% compared to the previous 30 days.

MarketBeat Follows

8 people have added Legal & General Group to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 167% compared to the previous 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 2.9 / 5
• Insider Trading: Acquiring Shares

Cluster Insider Buying

2 insiders have purchased shares of Legal & General Group in the last three months. Multiple insiders buying is a strong bullish signal.

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 £24,447.51 in company stock and sold GBX 0 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

0.61% of the stock of Legal & General Group is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

70.64% 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.

Company Calendar

• Last Earnings: 8/05/2026
• Today: 8/10/2026

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: LON
• Sector: Finance
• Industry: Capital Markets
• Sub-Industry: Asset Management & Custody Banks
• Current Symbol: LON:LGEN
• CIK: N/A
• Web: www.legalandgeneralgroup.com
• Phone: +44-20-31243000
• Fax: N/A
• Employees: 11,956
• Year Founded: N/A

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for Legal & General Group: GBX 275.43
• High Price Target: GBX 385
• Low Price Target: GBX 185
• Potential Upside/Downside: -11.5%
• Consensus Rating: Reduce
• Rating Score (0-4): 1.86
• Research Coverage: 7 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): GBX 9.74
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 31.94
• Forward P/E Ratio: 12.84
• P/E Growth: 2.34
• Net Income: £319.08 million
• Net Margins: 0.91%
• Pretax Margin: N/A
• Return on Equity: 27.28%
• Return on Assets: 0.18%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 1,002.04
• Current Ratio: N/A
• Quick Ratio: 0.50

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: £42.04 billion
• Price / Sales: 0.40
• Cash Flow: GBX 516.21 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 0.60
• Book Value: GBX 62.31 per share
• Price / Book: 4.99

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 5,461,847,000
• Free Float: N/A
• Market Cap: £16.99 billion
• Optionable: Not Optionable
• Beta: 0.80