LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P chart

Last update: 2022-12-30
Key statistics and financials
Revenue per share -0.11
Dividend & Yield0.30£ (3.99%)
Beta 0.99
Market capitalization 934.1M
Operating cash flow 31.69M
ESG Scores 23.6

Company description

The Law Debenture Corporation p.l.c., an investment trust, provides independent professional services. The company operates in two segments, Investment portfolio and Independent Professional Services. It provides corporate trust services, including bond/security trustee, escrow agent, facility agent, and bespoke trust solutions; governance services, such as pension trustee services comprising independent trustees, trustee chair, and sole corporate trustee; independent outsourced pensions executive services, including pensions management, scheme secretarial, and specialist support services to pension scheme trustees and corporates; and whistleblowing services. The company also offers corporate services, such as provision of corporate directors and officers; company secretarial comprising corporate administration, registrar, registered office, aircraft TUE, share trustee, and regulatory services and filings; and entity management, accounting and tax, facility agent and loan administration, process agent, and investor reporting services. It serves companies, agencies, organizations, and individuals worldwide. The company was incorporated in 1889 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.

Sector: Financial Services - Industry: Asset Management

Financial Ratios
Quick Ratio1.62
Working Capital6.15
Return On Equity0.17
Debt To Equity0.19
Fixed Asset Ratio0
Fixed Interest Cover29.43

Financial data

Financial Statements

Cashflow Statement 2018-12-31 2019-12-31 2020-12-31 2021-12-31
Change To Liabilities -138k 1.3M 14.93M 1.92M
Total Cashflows From Investing Activities -11.41M -60.26M -8.56M -78.94M
Net Borrowings -1.18M -1.18M -1.16M 49.63M
Total Cash From Financing Activities -27.98M -29.62M -52.51M 40.48M
Change To Operating Activities
Issuance Of Stock 185k 245k 132k 32.81M
Net Income -59.79M 129.94M 2.95M 148.83M
Change In Cash -9.86M -52.91M -29.47M -5.88M
Effect Of Exchange Rate 1.34M -395k -208k 606k
Total Cash From Operating Activities 28.19M 37.37M 31.8M 31.97M
Depreciation 93k 1.16M 1.22M 1.42M
Change To Account Receivables -1.27M -958k -9.01M -4.42M
Other Cashflows From Financing Activities -7.14M -5.28M -5.28M -5.28M
Change To Netincome 89.22M -94.17M 21.66M -115.93M
Capital Expenditures -70k -21k -1.08M -1.07M

Income Statement 2018-12-31 2019-12-31 2020-12-31 2021-12-31
Research Development
Income Before Tax -58.48M 131.36M 4.13M 150.04M
Net Income -59.79M 129.94M 2.95M 148.83M
Selling General Administrative 23.32M 25.21M 27.09M 34.14M
Gross Profit -30.86M 161.74M 36.38M 189.46M
Ebit -54.18M 136.53M 9.29M 155.32M
Operating Income -54.18M 136.53M 9.29M 155.32M
Interest Expense -4.62M -5.28M -5.28M -5.28M
Income Tax Expense 1.32M 1.42M 1.18M 1.21M
Total Revenue -27.19M 166.76M 40.79M 197.49M
Cost Of Revenue 3.67M 5.03M 4.41M 8.04M
Total Other Income ExpenseNet -4.3M -5.16M -5.16M -5.28M
Net Income From Continuing Ops -59.79M 129.94M 2.95M 148.83M
Net Income Applicable To Common Shares -59.79M 129.94M 2.95M 148.83M

Balance Sheet Statement 2018-12-31 2019-12-31 2020-12-31 2021-12-31
Total Liabilities 134.82M 137.79M 159.53M 213.18M
Total Stockholder Equity 669.36M 775.27M 726.99M 878.84M
Other Current Liabilities 4.2M 6.42M 24.27M 28.35M
Total Assets 804.18M 913.06M 886.52M 1.09B
Common Stock 5.92M 5.92M 5.92M 6.14M
Other Current Assets
Retained Earnings 653.39M 759.63M 711.25M 831.38M
Treasury Stock 1.15M 573k 549k -551k
Cash 124.15M 71.24M 41.76M 35.88M
Total Current Liabilities 16.68M 20.7M 32.87M 38.76M
Other Stockholder Equity 2.12M 1.91M 2.01M 2.66M
Property, Plant, and Equipment 100k 1.12M 6.5M 7.52M
Total Current Assets 136.84M 84.89M 64.42M 62.96M
Net Tangible Assets 667.23M 773.24M 724.46M 856.35M
Net Receivables 12.69M 13.65M 22.44M 25.5M
Accounts Payable 11.89M 13.01M 7.69M 8.53M


Insider Transactions

Here are the insider transactions of stock shares related to LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P:

Filer Name Transaction Text Ownership Date Filer Relation Shares
Jackson (Dennis C)Bought at price 8.94 per share.D2022-07-11130
Houston (Trish)D2022-07-0766
Jackson (Dennis C)D2022-07-07409
Houston (Trish)Bought at price 9.41 per share.D2022-06-29637
Jackson (Dennis C)Bought at price 10.62 per share.D2022-04-2034
Jackson (Dennis C)D2022-04-14438
Law Debenture Corporation Plc Employee Share Ownership TrustBought at price 10.52 per share.D2022-04-144.91k
Houston (Trish)D2022-04-1470
Houston (Trish)Bought at price 10.58 per share.D2022-04-07666
Jackson (Dennis C)Bought at price 10.58 per share.D2022-04-07667
Jackson (Dennis C)D2022-03-1115.14k
Jackson (Dennis C)Sold at price 9.87 per share.D2022-03-118.34k
Bridgeman (Mark George Orlando)Bought at price 9.88 per share.D2022-03-0415k
Bridgeman (Mark George Orlando)D2022-02-24
Hingley (Robert)D2022-02-24
Laing (Robert John)D2022-02-24
Jackson (Dennis C)Bought at price 10.92 per share.D2022-02-0128
Jackson (Dennis C)D2022-01-28423
Laing (Robert John)D2021-12-31
Bridgeman (Mark George Orlando)D2021-12-31
Hingley (Robert)D2021-12-31
Jackson (Dennis C)Bought at price 10.62 per share.D2021-11-0129
Jackson (Dennis C)D2021-10-28434
Law Debenture Corporation Plc Employee Share Ownership TrustBought at price 10.66 per share.D2021-10-284.3k
Jackson (Dennis C)Bought at price 10.62 per share.D2021-07-0929
Jackson (Dennis C)D2021-07-07428
Law Debenture Corporation Plc Employee Share Ownership TrustBought at price 10.68 per share.D2021-07-073.03k
Jackson (Dennis C)D2021-04-15511
Jackson (Dennis C)Bought at price 10.21 per share.D2021-04-06729
Houston (Trish)Bought at price 10.21 per share.D2021-04-06730
Houston (Trish)Sold at price 9.66 per share.D2021-03-24763
Bridgeman (Mark George Orlando)D2021-02-25
Hingley (Robert)D2021-02-25
Laing (Robert John)D2021-02-25
Jackson (Dennis C)D2021-01-28387
Law Debenture Corporation Plc Employee Share Ownership TrustBought at price 0.08 per share.D2021-01-282.69k
Laing (Robert John)D2020-12-31
Bridgeman (Mark George Orlando)D2020-12-31
Hingley (Robert)D2020-12-31
Houston (Trish)Bought at price 8.55 per share.D2020-12-151.56k
Jackson (Dennis C)D2020-10-28484

Insider transaction explanations

Insider buying is the legal purchase of shares by a senior executive or director of a company. "Filer Name" corresponds to the name of the stock buyer or seller. "Transaction Text" describes the transaction. "Ownership" gives information about the transaction type. "Date" is the reported transaction date. "Filer Relation" gives the role of the insider in the company. "Shares" is the value of the transaction. You will find the complete description of the General Transaction Codes on the SEC dedicated page


Investment strategy backtesting

These are the result of three automatic investment systems applied to LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P. You will find the performance of an systematic investment system, a momentum strategy, and a buy the dip trading strategy.


Systematic investment results on LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P

Here is the result of two systematic investment strategies applied to LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P. The first strategy automatically buys the first day of the month, and the second strategy buys the fifteenth day of the month.

Systematic investment equity curve on LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P

The following chart shows the equity curve of the two systematic investment strategies applied to LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P:

LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P automated entries

The systematic investment strategy that buys the first day of the month would give a performance of 27.55% on the backtest period.

Performance at glance

Performance

27.55 %

Latent gain

1367.0 £

Invested capital

4961.0 £

Annualized return

6.69 %
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Momentum strategy results on LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P

This is the result of two momentum investment strategies applied to LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P. The first strategy uses a momentum signal calculated on one quarter, and the second uses a momentum signal calculated on two quarters.

Momentum entry openings on LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P

The following chart shows all the entries opened by the momentum investment system on LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P:

LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P momentum entries
  • The first momentum investment strategy would give 44.86% of return on LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P. That represents 4409.5£ of latent gain with 9828.5£ of employed capital.
  • The second momentum investment strategy would give 29.13% of return on LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P. That represents 2141.5£ of latent gain with 7350.5£ of employed capital.
Performance at glance (1Q Momentum)

Performance

44.86 %

Latent gain

4409.5 £

Invested capital

9828.5 £

Annualized return

0.0 %
Performance at glance (2Q Momentum)

Performance

29.13 %

Latent gain

2141.5 £

Invested capital

7350.5 £

Annualized return

8.0 %

Momentum equity curve on LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P

The following chart shows the equity curve of the two momentum strategies applied to LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P:

LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P momentum equity

Note: the dividends potentially given by LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P are not integrated into the calculation of the equity curve neither the performance of the strategy. The integration of the dividends will be available soon.


Employed capital on LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P

The following chart shows the employed capital evolution of the two momentum strategies on LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P since the beginning:

LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P

Note: the algorithm buys for a maximum of 250$ per entry. If the stock price is greater than 250£, the system buys only one stock per entry. The investment system stops automatically when the financial exposure reaches 10000£.


Buy the dip strategy result on LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P

Buy the dip entry openings on LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P

LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P

The performance achieved by the robo-advisor on LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P is 0%. That represents 0.0$ of latent gain with 0.0£ of employed capital. The following chart shows LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P stock price with all the entries opened by the automated investment system.

Note: The blue line represents the weekly stock price of LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P, and the green triangles represent the entry openings. The artificall robo-advisor needs at least 100 weeks of trading history to work.

Performance at glance

Performance

0 %

Latent gain

0.0 £

Invested capital

0.0 £

Annualized return

0.0 %

Equity curve of the strategy applied to LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P

The following chart shows the result of the investment strategy applied to LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P:

LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P

Note: the dividends potentially given by LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P are not integrated into the calculation of the equity curve neither the performance of the strategy. The integration of the dividends will be available soon.


Employed capital on LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P

The following chart shows the employed capital evolution since the beginning of the investment strategy on LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P:

LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P

Note: the algorithm buys for a maximum of 250$ per entry. If the stock price is greater than 250$, the system buys only one stock per entry. The investment system stops automatically when the financial exposure reaches 10000$.


Investment strategies comparison on LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P

In this section, I will compare the three previous investment strategies applied to LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P.

Equity curve comparison on LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P

The following chart shows the equity curve of the artificall advisor, the trend folowing and the automatic investment strategies:

LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P investment strategy comparison

Employed capital comparison on LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P

LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P investment comparison

Performance comparison on LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P

Strategy Latent Profit Growth Employed capital CAGR
Automatic investment 27.55% 1367.0£ 4961.0£ 6.69%
Momentum 1 quarter 44.86% 4409.5£ 9828.5£ 11.56%
Momentum 2 quarters 29.13% 2141.5£ 7350.5£ 8.0%
Non-directional 0% 0.0£ 0.0£ 0.0%
Annualized return comparison

Automatic investment

6.69 %

Momentum 1Q

8.0 %

Momentum 2Q

8.0 %

Non-directional

0.0 %

Correlated stocks

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Positive correlations

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Negative correlation

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Note: The algorithm computes the probability of correlation between LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P and the other stocks. There may be false positives or some missing correlated stocks. If the price of LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P does not vary for 36 weeks, the correlation calculation result will be wrong.


Company information

Company name LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P
Country United Kingdom
City London
Address 100 Bishopsgate
Phone 44 20 7606 5451
Website www.lawdebenture.com
FullTime employees 239
Industry Asset Management
Sector Financial Services
Exchange XLON
Ticker LWDB.XLON
Market www.londonstockexchange.com

LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATION PLC ORD 5P ESG Scores

Environment scores

Environment ESG Factors Scores
Environment Score 5.8
Peer Environment Performance 3.9033333333333
Environment Percentile unknown
Palm Oil unknown
Nuclear unknown
Fur Leather unknown
GMO unknown
Coal unknown
Pesticides unknown
Animal Testing unknown

Social scores

Social ESG Factors Scores
Social Score 9.1
Peer Social Performance 7.85
Social Percentile unknown
Highest Controversy unknown
Peer Highest Controversy Performance unknown
Adult unknown
Gambling unknown
Alcoholic unknown
Tobacco unknown
Catholic unknown
Controversial Weapons unknown
Small Arms unknown
Military Contract unknown
Peer Count yes

Related Controversy:


Governance scores

Governance ESG Factors Scores
Governance Score 6.6
Peer Governance Performance 6.54
Governance Percentile unknown

ESG at glance
Total ESG Scores: 23.6
Environment Score: 5.8
Social Score: 9.1
Governance Score: 6.6

ESG Performance: AVG_PERF

Peer Group: EAA CE Global Flex-Cap Equity

Peer Esg Score Performance: 23.86

Rating Year: 2020

Rating Month: 12

Max Age: 86400

Percentile: unknown