LON:LGEN - Legal & General Group Share Price, Forecast & News

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

Legal & General Group declared a dividend on Wednesday, August 7th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, August 15th will be paid a dividend of GBX 4.93 per share on Thursday, September 26th. This represents a dividend yield of 2.03%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, August 15th. The official announcement can be viewed at this link. View Legal & General Group's Dividend History.

Legal & General Group is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, March 4th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Legal & General Group.

12 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for Legal & General Group's stock. Their forecasts range from GBX 210 to GBX 360. On average, they expect Legal & General Group's share price to reach GBX 293.70 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 7.0%. View Analyst Price Targets for Legal & General Group.

12 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, 4 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Legal & General Group.

Headlines about LGEN stock have trended very positive on Friday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group scores the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Legal & General Group earned a coverage optimism score of 3.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the financial services provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Legal & General Group.

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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), Barclays (BARC), Berkeley Group (BKG), GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Aviva (AV), Prudential (PRU), easyJet (EZJ) and Centrica (CNA).

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 315.90.

Legal & General Group has a market capitalization of £18.84 billion and generates £22.44 billion in revenue each year. Legal & General Group employs 7,981 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Legal & General Group.

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.