NYSE:LYG - Lloyds Banking Group Stock Price, Forecast & News

Lloyds Banking Group trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "LYG."

Lloyds Banking Group announced a semiannual dividend on Friday, March 8th. Shareholders of record on Friday, April 5th will be paid a dividend of $0.1119 per share on Friday, May 31st. This represents a yield of 7.02%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, April 4th. View Lloyds Banking Group's Dividend History.

Lloyds Banking Group is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, December 12th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Lloyds Banking Group.

8 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Lloyds Banking Group in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 3 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Lloyds Banking Group.

Media stories about LYG stock have been trending negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Lloyds Banking Group earned a coverage optimism score of -2.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the financial services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Lloyds Banking Group.

Lloyds Banking Group saw a decrease in short interest in November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totalling 4,510,000 shares, a decrease of 20.0% from the October 31st total of 5,640,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 6,100,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 0.7 days. Currently, 0.0% of the company's shares are short sold. View Lloyds Banking Group's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Lloyds Banking Group include Royal Bank of Canada (RY), HDFC Bank (HDB), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), BNP PARIBAS/S (BNPQY), Banco Santander (SAN), Westpac Banking (WBK), Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Grp (SMFG), Bank of Montreal (BMO), ANZ (ANZBY), ICICI Bank (IBN), ING Groep (ING), Banco Santander Brasil (BSBR), CR AGRICOLE S A/ADR (CRARY) and HANG SENG BK LT/S (HSNGY).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Lloyds Banking Group investors own include Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY), Barclays (BARC), Bank of America (BAC), Gilead Sciences (GILD), Barclays (BCS), General Electric (GE), Citigroup (C), Opko Health (OPK), BP (BP) and AT&T (T).

Lloyds Banking Group's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Cambiar Investors LLC (0.20%), Mondrian Investment Partners LTD (0.12%), Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC (0.07%), Schafer Cullen Capital Management Inc (0.06%), Cowen Investment Management LLC (0.04%) and Crossmark Global Holdings Inc. (0.02%).

LYG stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Cambiar Investors LLC, Barclays PLC, Commonwealth Equity Services LLC, Envestnet Asset Management Inc., SG Americas Securities LLC, Comerica Bank, Quadrant Capital Group LLC and Schafer Cullen Capital Management Inc.

LYG stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Cowen Investment Management LLC, Mondrian Investment Partners LTD, Crossmark Global Holdings Inc., BBVA USA Bancshares Inc., Stifel Financial Corp, FNY Investment Advisers LLC, Oppenheimer Asset Management Inc. and BB&T Corp.

Shares of LYG can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of LYG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $3.18.

Lloyds Banking Group has a market capitalization of $56.03 billion and generates $24.99 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $5.74 billion in net income (profit) each year or $0.33 on an earnings per share basis. Lloyds Banking Group employs 64,928 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Lloyds Banking Group.

The official website for Lloyds Banking Group is http://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/.

Lloyds Banking Group's mailing address is 25 GRESHAM STREET, LONDON X0, EC2V 7HN. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 44-0-20-7626-1500 or via email at [email protected]