LON:LGEN - Legal & General Group Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Legal & General Group trades on the London Stock Exchange (LON) under the ticker symbol "LGEN."

Legal & General Group declared a dividend on Wednesday, March 6th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, April 25th will be given a dividend of GBX 11.82 per share on Thursday, June 6th. This represents a dividend yield of 4.3%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, April 25th. This is a boost from Legal & General Group's previous dividend of $4.60. The official announcement can be seen at this link. View Legal & General Group's Dividend History.

Legal & General Group is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, August 7th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Legal & General Group.

14 brokerages have issued 1 year target prices for Legal & General Group's stock. Their predictions range from GBX 225 to GBX 345. On average, they expect Legal & General Group's share price to reach GBX 299.64 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 15.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Legal & General Group.

14 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Legal & General Group in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 5 hold ratings, 6 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Legal & General Group.

News coverage about LGEN stock has trended somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Legal & General Group earned a media sentiment score of 0.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the financial services provider a news buzz of 7.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Legal & General Group investors own include Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY), BP (BP), National Grid (NG), Berkeley Group (BKG), Prudential (PRU), Barclays (BARC), GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Aviva (AV), Centrica (CNA) and easyJet (EZJ).

Shares of LGEN 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.

One share of LGEN stock can currently be purchased for approximately GBX 258.50.

Legal & General Group has a market capitalization of £15.34 billion and generates £11.36 billion in revenue each year. Legal & General Group employs 7,981 workers across the globe.

The official website for Legal & General Group is http://www.legalandgeneralgroup.com/.

Legal & General Group's mailing address is 1 Coleman Street, LONDON, EC2R 5AA, United Kingdom. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at +44-20-31243000.