NYSE:BCSBarclays Stock Price, Forecast & News

Barclays' stock was trading at $5.87 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, BCS stock has decreased by 1.2% and is now trading at $5.80. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Barclays in the last year. There are currently 7 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Barclays.

Barclays is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, August 6th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Barclays.

Barclays PLC (NYSE:BCS) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, April, 29th. The financial services provider reported $0.18 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.22 by $0.04. The financial services provider earned $8.05 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $6.64 billion. Barclays had a return on equity of 5.47% and a net margin of 9.09%. View Barclays' earnings history.

Barclays announced a semi-annual dividend on Tuesday, February 18th. Shareholders of record on Friday, February 28th will be paid a dividend of $0.3214 per share on Friday, April 3rd. This represents a yield of 4.9%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 27th. View Barclays' dividend history.

Press coverage about BCS stock has been trending very negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group scores the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Barclays earned a media sentiment score of -3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news headlines about the financial services provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term. View the latest news about Barclays.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Barclays investors own include Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY), Barclays (BARC), Boeing (BA), Bank of America (BAC), Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Citigroup (C), Lloyds Banking Group (LYG), AT&T (T) and General Electric (GE).

Barclays trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BCS."

Shares of BCS can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of BCS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $5.80.

Barclays has a market capitalization of $25.14 billion and generates $27.62 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $4.18 billion in net income (profit) each year or $1.25 on an earnings per share basis. Barclays employs 80,800 workers across the globe.

The official website for Barclays is www.home.barclays.

Barclays' mailing address is 1 Churchill Place, London X0, E14 5HP. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 44-0-20-7116-3170 or via email at [email protected]