LAND Stock Price: Dividends, Bears, and Downtrend, What’s Next?

LAND Stock Price: Dividends, Bears, and Downtrend, What's Next?

Land Securities Group Plc (LON: LAND) is a real estate investment trust which is listed on the London Stock Exchange. The company specializes in owning, developing, and managing offices, shopping centers, and retail parks. It operates through Central London, Regional Retail, Urban Opportunities, and Subscale Sectors.

Financially, the investment trust’s revenue growth has just turned down to be positive after it crumbled in the pandemic of 2020. The revenue reported as of March 2023 is $791 Million. The firm made an operating income of $456 Million.

The reason behind net losses

This profit is not able to be transferred into shareholders’ accounts, as the company is burning funds for non-operating expenses. However, after an in-depth breakup of the unusual expenses, we found out in reality, the expenses aren’t really ‘unusual’. The major expense was unrealized losses over these years. 

Furthermore, being a REIT, the company is giving regular and fulfilling dividends. In 2022, the management announced a dividend per share of $0.39 and a dividend yield of 4.71%. Land Securities, gives dividends every quarter of a year.

Technical Analysis and Prediction of LAND Stock Price

After breaking the major support level of $703 in August of 2022, the LAND stock price started a downtrend. It went on to its last support level of $500. After this, the stock also deviated to its 52-week low of $492 in September of 2022.

As of this writing, the LAND stock is trading at a level of $610. The bulls have pushed the price to the 200-day EMA level of $624, after bouncing off from the immediate support of $570. Moreover, If the bulls break the resistance level of $644, the LAND stock price will go toward its 2nd resistance of $703. Similarly, if the bears take control, the stock is likely to break past the current support and move toward its second support of $514

The RSI indicator is showing an uptrend after hitting its oversold level of 30 back in the mid-days of August 2023. At present, the RSI line has made a bullish crossover with its simple moving average (SMA) line. the current levels for the RSI and SMA are 56 and 44 respectively. 

However, if the bulls can break past the rejection from the 200-day EMA, it is likely to get into its resistance zone. Suppose that happens, the RSI will move towards its overbought level of 70.

Conclusion

Land Securities Group Plc (LON: LAND) is a real estate investment trust. Since 2022, the LAND stock price has been in a consolidation zone. The price prediction for the stock will be bullish if the stock comes over its 200-day EMA level. Otherwise, it will fall back to its support level. 

Technical Levels

Support: £570 and  £514

Resistance: £644 and £703

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Source: https://www.thecoinrepublic.com/2023/09/21/land-stock-price-dividends-bears-and-downtrend-whats-next/