Currently, there are 3.60B common shares owned by the public and among those 3.40B shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 4.40% and 14.48% over the past three months. BCS shares are trading 14.22% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 81.36% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $8.29 and touched a high of $15.65 over the same period. BCS has an average intraday trading volume of 14.33 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 1.73%, 7.90%, and 22.37% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Barclays plc ADR (NYSE: BCS) shares accounts for 6.20% of the company’s 3.60B shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $54.61B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.40. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 5.48, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $2.77. The company has a PEG of 0.31 and the debt-to-equity ratio at 2.85. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 1.73% over the week and 1.63% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 18.02%, and 21.15% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of 17.52% over the next five years, compared to 20.33% over the past 5-year period.
Deutsche Bank was of a view on May 09, 2024 that the stock is Buy, while BofA Securities gave the stock Underperform rating on October 26, 2023, issuing a price target of $8.77- $7.31. Morgan Stanley on their part issued Overweight rating on September 26, 2023.
