Legal & General Share Price (LGEN)

LGEN - Legal & General Investor Summary

The Legal and General Group plc is a British based financial services company which handles many aspects of the financial world, including life, health and general insurance in addition to pensions and investments. It is a member of the FTSE 100 group and trades on the London Stock Exchange. Although based in London, it also has markets in Germany, France, the USA and the Netherlands and employs almost 9,000 workers globally. At present the company offers various products such as providing financial planning, bonds, pensions, ISAs, unit trusts and investment management services. In addition to its direct sales service and brokerage deals with tied agents and independent financial advisers, it also has created deals to sell its products to many major financial institutions including HSBC, Nationwide Building Society, Alliance & Leicester, The Woolwich, Northern Rock, Bank of Ireland and Barclays Bank. On February 1st 2008, the Legal and General Group completed the acquisition of the Nationwide Life Limited and also the Nationwide Unit Trust Managers Limited.

Analysts from the FTSE 100 have recorded a consistent underperformance in the last few years and data from January shows a steady decrease in the worth of shares. This is unsurprising given the current climate as many financial service institutions have seen negative growth. Data from the last year shows that current revenues stand at a deficit of minus 4.54 billion pounds and net income stands at 398 million pounds, with the fifty-two week range showing a fluctuation between 50.30 and 137.80.