In today’s recent session, 2.77 million shares of the Barclays plc ADR (NYSE:BCS) have been traded, and its beta is 1.11. Most recently the company’s share price was $17.64, and it changed around -$0.27 or -1.51% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $62.95B. BCS at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $17.96, offering almost -1.81% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $10.17, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 42.35% since then. We note from Barclays plc ADR’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 15.01 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 17.73 million.
Barclays plc ADR stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.67. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 2 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 0 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 1 recommended BCS as a Hold, whereas 1 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight.
Barclays plc ADR (NYSE:BCS) trade information
Instantly BCS has been showing red trend so far today with a performance of -1.51% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the red territory. The rise to weekly highs of 17.96 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 1.78%. The company’s shares are currently up 32.73% year-to-date, but still down -1.18% over the last five days. On the other hand, Barclays plc ADR (NYSE:BCS) is 10.46% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 14.49 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 0.96 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $29, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 39.17% from its current value. Analyst projections state that BCS is forecast to be at a low of $29 and a high of $29.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 20.33%. Barclays plc ADR earnings are expected to increase by 21.55% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 19.70% per year for the next five years.
BCS Dividends
Barclays plc ADR’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-Apr-29. The annual dividend yield of the stock is 2.48 percent and its annual dividend per share was 0.44. It is important to note, however, that the 2.48% dividend yield ratio should be regarded as a guide only, as many other factors should be taken into consideration before making any investment decision. The average dividend yield for the past five years averaged 2.97 per year.
Barclays plc ADR (NYSE:BCS)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 0.01% of Barclays plc ADR shares, and 7.99% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 7.99%. Barclays plc ADR stock is held by 476.0 institutions, with ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 0.201% of the shares, which is about 29.98 million shares worth $321.09 million.
ACADIAN ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC, with 0.132% or 19.68 million shares worth $210.76 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
DFA INVESTMENT TRUST CO-THE DFA INTERNATIONAL VALUE SERIES and Dimensional ETF Trust-Dimensional International Value ETF were the top two Mutual Funds as of Jan 31, 2025 . The former held 3.59 shares worth $63.33 million, making up 0.10% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, Dimensional ETF Trust-Dimensional International Value ETF held roughly 3.24 shares worth around $57.22 million, which represents about 0.09% of the total shares outstanding.
