LGEN.L LEGAL & GENERAL GROUP PLC ORD 2
Financial Services · Asset Management
2.98
-0.96%
About the company
Legal & General Group Plc provides various insurance products and services in the United Kingdom, the United States, and internationally. It operates through Institutional Retirement, Asset Management, Insurance, and Retail Retirement segments. The Institutional Retirement segment offers annuity contracts with guaranteed income for a specified time; longevity insurance products; and writes assured payment policies (APP). The Asset Management segment provides unit linked institutional pensions, segregated investment management mandates, and collective investment schemes; index fund management; pooled and segregated active fixed income funds; active equity management; solutions for cash management requirements for institutional investors; solutions and liability driven investment; multi-asset funds; private markets strategies for physical real estate, private corporate debts, infrastructure debts, and real estate loans; and direct investment services. The Retail Retirement segment offers protection products, such as health, disability, critical illness, and accident; annuities; lifetime mortgages; lifetime care plans; retirement interest only mortgages; and workplace and retail savings scheme that provides corporate pension scheme solutions. Legal & General Group Plc was founded in 1836 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.
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Dividend deep dive
LEGAL & GENERAL GROUP PLC ORD 2 operates in the Asset Management industry within the Financial Services sector. The company currently offers a dividend yield of 7.38%. This yield falls within its 5-year historical range, which has seen a high of 8.8% and a low of 6.52%, with an average of 7.96%. The dividend safety status for the company is rated as 'at_risk'.
Dividend history
LEGAL & GENERAL GROUP PLC ORD 2 has demonstrated a consistent record of dividend increases, boasting a dividend growth streak of 16 consecutive years. The company is classified as a 'Contender' in the CCC dividend classification system. Over the past three years, the dividend compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) was 4.71%, and over five years, it was 4.10%. The annual dividends per share in GBP were: 9.8p (2014), 11.8p (2015), 13.95p (2016), 14.65p (2017), 15.65p (2018), 16.75p (2019), 17.57p (2020), 17.82p (2021), 18.71p (2022), and 19.64p (2023).
Dividend safety
The company's dividend safety is considered 'at_risk'. A high payout ratio of 275.0% suggests that earnings do not currently cover the dividend. Leverage is notably high, with a debt-to-equity ratio of 2477.336.
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