profit from every £100 of sales.
£0£100
Legal & General Group
£3.08+1.18% today
+31.1% in 1 year
1-year low £2.351-year high £3.16
Trading close to its highest price of the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2023 to 2025.
0%20% a year
You pay £27.79 for every £1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
of earnings would pay off all its debt.
No debt5 years
Money in, money out
What Legal & General Group sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from -£94.9 billion in 2022 to £42.0 billion in 2025, with £592 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Legal & General Group handed back 39% of the cash it generated last year.
£1.2B
Free cash flow 2025£4.5B
Bought back its own shares£503M
Paid as dividends£1.2B
Cash vs. debt£17.1B vs. £4.9B
Legal & General Group vs. similar companies
Legal & General Group grows in the middle of these 5 and is priced in the middle for its profits.
| Company | Profit from £100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per £1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal & General Group | 27.8× · Fair price | ||
 BlackRock | 33.8× · Expensive | ||
 Blackstone | 50.7× · Expensive | ||
 Investor | 8.4× · Cheap | ||
 Brookfield | 73.4× · Very expensive |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Legal & General Group's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| -94,939 | 32,689 | 20,613 | 42,039 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 1,261 | – | – | – | |
| 783 | 457 | 191 | 592 | |
| 0.36 | 0.07 | 0.03 | 0.10 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| -0.8% | 1.4% | 0.9% | 1.4% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 513,270 | 522,095 | 544,167 | 582,268 |
| Cash | 35,784 | 20,513 | 16,657 | 17,098 |
| Total debt | 5,557 | 6,120 | 7,699 | 4,898 |
| Total liabilities | 507,737 | 517,311 | 540,656 | 579,956 |
| 5,562 | 4,826 | 3,548 | 2,283 | |
| 6,279 | 6,281 | 5,948 | 6,076 | |
| 7.8% | 2.9% | 3.4% | 10.2% | |
| 14.1% | 9.5% | 5.4% | 25.9% |
Cash flow
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20,464 | -14,244 | -4,446 | 4,548 | |
| 187 | 237 | 95 | 51 | |
| 20,277 | -14,481 | -4,541 | 4,497 | |
| Dividends paid | 1,116 | 1,172 | 1,230 | 1,247 |
| 59 | 0 | 201 | 503 | |
| – | – | – | – |
Valuation
- 27.8×
- –
- 1.77
- 6.5×
- 0.4×
- 3.7×
- –
- 27.3%
- 3.6%
- 7.6%
Profitability
- –
- –
- 1.4%
- –
- 10.2%
- 6.1%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- +13.4%
- +15.7%
- –
- –
- −1.1%
Financial health
- –
- 2.15
- –
- 3.4×
- –
- –
- –
How it ranks in Financial Services
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Top 23%of 843
Bottom 18%of 866
Top 33%of 862
Top 6%of 921
7.6%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$76a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
210.6% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 27.7%
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The seven classic investing rulebooks
0/7Passes 0 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Warren Buffett
35No pass
Benjamin Graham
36No pass
Philip Fisher
49No pass
Peter Lynch
46No pass
Joel Greenblatt
49No pass
Charlie Munger
20No pass
Terry Smith
30No pass
Questions about Legal & General Group
Is Legal & General Group a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers at a fair price. 0 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the Legal & General Group AI analysis
What does Legal & General Group do?
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. It is in Asset Management, based in London, United Kingdom, with 10,500 employees.
Does Legal & General Group pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 7.6% a year, about 211% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out £1.25 billion in dividends.
Is Legal & General Group stock halal?
No. Legal & General Group does not pass our halal screen: its cash and confirmed interest-bearing investments are 104% of its market value, at or above the 33% limit. How we check
How has Legal & General Group stock done over the past year?
Up 31.1% over the past twelve months, to £3.08. It traded between £2.35 and £3.16 and is 2.6% below its high.
Who are Legal & General Group's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are BlackRock, Blackstone, Investor and Brookfield. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Legal & General Group's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 9, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.