Is Barclays plc ADR (NYSE: BCS) Stock An Instant Disaster Or An Incredible Opportunity?

In the latest trading session, 1.12 million Barclays plc ADR (NYSE:BCS) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.42. With the company’s most recent per share price at $12.62 changing hands around $0.01 or 0.07% at last look, the market valuation stands at $45.75B. BCS’s current price is a discount, trading about -2.69% off its 52-week high of $12.96. The share price had its 52-week low at $6.23, which suggests the last value was 50.63% up since then. When we look at Barclays plc ADR’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 9.41 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 13.74 million.

Analysts gave the Barclays plc ADR (BCS) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.71. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 5 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 0 recommended BCS as a Hold, 5 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Barclays plc ADR’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.43.

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Barclays plc ADR (NYSE:BCS) trade information

Instantly BCS is in green as seen in intraday trades today. With action 2.67%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 60.13%, with the 5-day performance at 2.67% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Barclays plc ADR (NYSE:BCS) is 4.89% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 5.02 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 0.3 days.

Barclays plc ADR (BCS) estimates and forecasts

Data shows that the Barclays plc ADR share is performing relatively much better than most of its peers within the same industry. As can be gleaned from the statistics, the company’s share value shot 30.09% over the past 6 months, a 20.29% in annual growth rate that is considerably higher than the industry average of 5.60%. Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 2.70% up from the last financial year.

Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 22.49%. The 2024 estimates are for Barclays plc ADR earnings to increase by 27.01%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 2.10% per year.

BCS Dividends

Barclays plc ADR is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2024-Oct-24. The 3.34% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 0.42. It is important to note, however, that the 3.34% dividend yield ratio should serve as a guide only, as you should also take into consideration many other aspects of a company’s operations and fundamentals before making any investment decision. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 2.97 per year.

Barclays plc ADR (NYSE:BCS)’s Major holders

The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 5.47%. There are 5.47% institutions holding the Barclays plc ADR stock share, with ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 0.2001% of the shares, roughly 29.98 million BCS shares worth $321.09 million.

ACADIAN ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 0.1314% or 19.68 million shares worth $210.76 million as of 2024-06-30.

Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Jul 31, 2024 were DFA International Value Series and Dimensional ETF Tr-Dimensional International Value ETF. With 3.63 shares estimated at $45.75 million under it, the former controlled 0.10% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, Dimensional ETF Tr-Dimensional International Value ETF held about 0.09% of the shares, roughly 3.14 shares worth around $39.56 million.