LGEN.LSE
Legal & General Group PLC
Price history
Key metrics
Legal & General Group PLC has paid a dividend for 34 consecutive years and currently yields 7.28%, below its five year average. Its payout ratio is 267%. Dividend Health rates it Borderline at 56 out of 99, with high confidence.
Data as of 27 Oct 2026
Next dividend
Per share
£0.1567
Frequency
Final
Declared
—
Ex-date
26 Apr 2027
in 181 days
Pay date
7 Jun 2027
estimated
Dividend health
Confidence High · Standard profile · as of 27 Oct 2026
Total return
£10,000 invested is £29,933 today: £4,370 from the share price and £15,563 from dividends reinvested.
Total return +199.33%. Price alone returned +43.70% over the same window.
Assumes every dividend is reinvested on its ex-dividend date, before tax and dealing costs.
How it compares
Where it trades
Volume: median shares per session over the last 20 sessions. Closes as of 26 Oct 2026. Regular trading hours in your time zone.
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.
Annual dividends per share
Dividends paid in GBP · based on LGEN.LSE's fiscal years ending in December
Dividend Policy
The Group’s dividend policy states that we are a long-term business and set our dividend annually, according to agreed principles. The Board’s intention for the future is to maintain its progressive dividend policy, reflecting the Group’s expected medium-term underlying business growth, including measurement of capital generation and adjusted operating profit.
Dividend History
| Ex-Date | Amount | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Aug 272027-08-23 | £0.0624 | Estimated |
| 26 Apr 272027-04-26 | £0.1567 | Estimated |
| 20 Aug 262026-08-20 | £0.0624 | Paid |
| 23 Apr 262026-04-23 | £0.1567 | Paid |
| 21 Aug 252025-08-21 | £0.0612 | Paid |
| 24 Apr 252025-04-24 | £0.1536 | Paid |
| 22 Aug 242024-08-22 | £0.0600 | Paid |
| 25 Apr 242024-04-25 | £0.1463 | Paid |
| 24 Aug 232023-08-24 | £0.0571 | Paid |
| 27 Apr 232023-04-27 | £0.1393 | Paid |
| 18 Aug 222022-08-18 | £0.0544 | Paid |
| 21 Apr 222022-04-21 | £0.1327 | Paid |
| 12 Aug 212021-08-12 | £0.0518 | Paid |
| 15 Apr 212021-04-15 | £0.1264 | Paid |
| 13 Aug 202020-08-13 | £0.0493 | Paid |
| 23 Apr 202020-04-23 | £0.1264 | Paid |
| 15 Aug 192019-08-15 | £0.0493 | Paid |
| 25 Apr 192019-04-25 | £0.1182 | Paid |
| 16 Aug 182018-08-16 | £0.0460 | Paid |
| 26 Apr 182018-04-26 | £0.1105 | Paid |
| 17 Aug 172017-08-17 | £0.0430 | Paid |
| 27 Apr 172017-04-27 | £0.1035 | Paid |
| 18 Aug 162016-08-18 | £0.0400 | Paid |
| 28 Apr 162016-04-28 | £0.0995 | Paid |
| 13 Aug 152015-08-13 | £0.0345 | Paid |
| 23 Apr 152015-04-23 | £0.0835 | Paid |
| 27 Aug 142014-08-27 | £0.0290 | Paid |
| 23 Apr 142014-04-23 | £0.0690 | Paid |
| 28 Aug 132013-08-28 | £0.0240 | Paid |
| 24 Apr 132013-04-24 | £0.0569 | Paid |
| 29 Aug 122012-08-29 | £0.0196 | Paid |
| 18 Apr 122012-04-18 | £0.0474 | Paid |
| 07 Sept 112011-09-07 | £0.0166 | Paid |
| 20 Apr 112011-04-20 | £0.0342 | Paid |
| 01 Sept 102010-09-01 | £0.0133 | Paid |
| 14 Apr 102010-04-14 | £0.0273 | Paid |
| 02 Sept 092009-09-02 | £0.0111 | Paid |
| 15 Apr 092009-04-15 | £0.0205 | Paid |
| 03 Sept 082008-09-03 | £0.0201 | Paid |
| 16 Apr 082008-04-16 | £0.0410 | Paid |
| 05 Sept 072007-09-05 | £0.0187 | Paid |
| 18 Apr 072007-04-18 | £0.0381 | Paid |
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