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The past year gave good returns for Legal & General investors

The period between December 2015 and December 2016 was a loss-making period for the investors in Legal & General. The stock lost around 8 percent. Over the period 2011-2016 the stock rose a massive 145,7 percent. Legal & General's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were very volatile through the time and moved between 3497,6 billion GBp and 1270,1 billion GBp. Legal & General's net results between 2011 and 2015 were very fluctuating and moved between 72,86 billion GBp and 110,17 billion GBp.

Legal & General's head office is based in Kent. Legal & General's core business is the insurance sector. The period from 2006 till the end of 2016 the international sector gained around 4 percent. Over the past 5 years the sector is 17 percent higher.

Legal & General paid out dividends in the past 5 years. Over the past 5 years the stock delivered an average dividend return of 48 percent. In the period 2011 till 2015 Legal & General paid it's investors each year a higher dividend per share. Based on the yearly higher dividend payments Legal & General is a kind of dividend aristocrat.

Legal & General' balance mostly consists of equity

At the end of 2015 the insurer's balance sheet equaled 39679,9 billion GBp. Of the total balance sheet 39039,5 billion GBp (98,39 percent) was financed by debt. Last year the insurer's price/earnings-ratio (PE) was around 14. So the investors valued the stock at 14 times 2015' earnings per share. Based on the classical stock valuation theories the English stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the insurer's market capitalization (the number of shares times the market price) equaled around 1585,38 billion GBp. At the end of 2015 the English company had around 5,92 billion stocks listed.

All Legal & General's annual reports can be found here. More information about Legal & General can be found it's website. .