Barclays PLC
BCSBarclays PLC is printing record margins on a fuller multiple. From here the earnings must do all the lifting.
Biggest watch item: the net margin is the best this company has ever printed — every ratio flatters at record profitability, so the whole story leans on the net margin holding.
The price is in a confirmed uptrend (11 weeks in) while the P/BV sits at the 70th percentile of its own 5-year range. Underneath, the last four quarters read improving — profit +3.8% year on year, with the the net margin at 72.7%. What settles it: the next one or two quarters of delivery.
Price story Before the numbers, the tape. A stock price moves through four repeating seasons: a flat base (stage 1), an advance (2), a top (3), a decline (4). Where the price sits in that cycle frames everything below.
Barclays PLC trades at $27.0, in a confirmed uptrend and 11 weeks into that stage. That is +12.4% against its own 200-day average. It sits at 89% of a 52-week range of $19 to $28. On relative strength it has been ahead of the S&P 500 on a trailing-13-week view for 9 straight weeks.
Today the stock is in a confirmed uptrend — week 11 of stage 2. At $27.0 it trades +12.4% versus its 200-day average and sits at 89% of its 52-week range ($19–$28).
Against the market, two honest reads. Cumulative: over the last 10.1 years the stock moved +269% while the S&P 500 moved +248% — ahead of the index over the full window. Recent form: on a trailing-13-week view the stock has been ahead for 9 straight weeks — the ribbon below is that same metric, week by week.
What would end the trend, mechanically: two Friday closes in a row below the 200-day line. That is the exit rule — no debates.
→ The trend is one thing; the bill is another. Are you paying up for it? Next: the P/BV sits at the 70th percentile of its own range.
Valuation For a bank we price the book, not the earnings: P/BV is what the market pays for each $1 of the bank's net worth. A bank below 1× book is priced below the value of what it owns, net of what it owes.
Barclays PLC trades at 0.9× P/BV, at the pricey end of its own range (70th percentile). Its long-run median P/BV is 0.8×, measured across 5.1 years of weekly readings. This places the multiple against the stock’s own record, and says nothing about what the business is worth.
Today's P/BV of 0.9× is at the pricey end of its own range (70th percentile), against a long-run median of 0.8× measured over 5.1 years of weekly readings. This is a comparison against the stock's own history — not a claim about what it is worth.
The honest context for that discount: a bank earning about 10% on its equity is worth less per dollar of book, and the market has priced that in rather than overlooked it. The discount closes only if the returns themselves improve.
Why the multiple sits where it does: over the past year book value grew while the price moved +37.5% — the price ran ahead of the book, pushing the multiple up its own range.
The price move, decomposed: over 5y, of the +22.5%/yr price move, ~+7.4%/yr came from book-value growth and ~+15.1 pp from the multiple (expanding). The split is the honest approximate (price return minus book-value growth); it makes the rally itself visible instead of hiding it behind the percentile.
Put together: the multiple is full against its own past, so the story rests on the book-value line underneath it, not the multiple.
→ Cheap or dear rides on the earnings. Are they actually growing? Next: the fundamental stage — where the business sits in its arc, and how growth has compounded.
Stage: Mixed Every business sits somewhere on a fundamental arc, and this page names the spot before anything else. The last twelve quarters of revenue, profit and EPS growth — plus the return the business earns on its capital — are read as curves: Deteriorating (the curves are falling), Turning around (a trough has just formed and the last few quarters lift off it), Improving (the climb off the trough is sustained), Consistent (steadily positive with healthy returns), Topping out (still high but decelerating from the peak). When the curves genuinely disagree the read is Mixed; too little history is No read. CAGR (compound annual growth rate) is the smooth yearly pace that turns the starting value into the latest one — the fairest way to compare growth across different time spans. Read the columns together: if the 1-year number towers over the 10-year, recent growth is running hotter than the long-run trend. A dash means that window is not held, or the base year was a loss (where a growth rate is not meaningful).
Barclays PLC reads as mixed on its fundamental arc. Mixed — no clean majority across the growth curves, ROE holding at 9.5% — the per-curve reads carry the story. The read is built from 12 quarters across 4 curves, on full evidence.
Why it matters: when the curves disagree, the per-curve reads above matter more than any single verdict.
| 1yr | 3yr | 5yr | 10yr | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | +8.2% | +4.2% | — | — |
| Profit | +13.4% | +6.5% | — | — |
| EPS | +21.6% | +12.4% | — | — |
| Stock price | +37.5% | +50.0% | +22.5% | +12.6% |
→ The stage names the trajectory. Next: the revenue line that produces it, quarter by quarter.
4-Factor Sector Score
36.9/100 — rank 16 of 18 in Banks - Diversified · 62% evidence confidence
Barclays PLC scores 36.9 out of 100 against the 18 companies it is compared with in Banks - Diversified, ranking 16. Balanced evidence: keep at normal research priority and require another comparable period before raising conviction.
The four contributions add to the total exactly: 12.1 + 10.1 + 8.6 + 6.1 = 36.9. This is the SAME number shown on the sector comparison — it is computed once, for the whole peer set, and read here.
What would change it: The read weakens if ROA rolls over or gross NPA rises while sector-relative strength deteriorates.
Revenue For a bank, revenue is everything the franchise earns — interest on the loan book plus fees from its businesses.
Barclays PLC reported $3.0 B of income in the Mar 26 quarter, −57.3% year on year. Over 4 years it has compounded at −12.0% a year. The last full year, FY25, came in at $26.9 B. The last four reported quarters add to $27.9 B.
Barclays PLC reported $3.0 B of income in the Mar 26 quarter, −57.3% year on year. Over 4 years it has compounded at −12.0% a year. The last full year, FY25, came in at $26.9 B. The last four reported quarters add to $27.9 B.
FY25 revenue came in at $26.9 B (+8.2% on the year), capping 4 years at −12.0% compound. The latest quarter (Mar 26) printed $3.0 B, −57.3% year on year.
Pace check: the last four quarters averaged −22.9% growth against the decade's −12.0% — the current year is running slower than its own long-run rate.
Acceleration check: trailing-twelve-month revenue grew −21.0% over the last 4 quarters against −11.4%/yr over the last 8 — rolling over; TTM profit +9.8% vs +19.7%/yr — rolling over.
→ Revenue slipped — did the net margin hold as it scaled? Next: 72.7% this quarter (+42.8 pp YoY).
Net margin Net margin — what the bank keeps of every $100 of revenue after every cost, provision and tax. With big fee businesses in the mix, it is the cleanest margin we can read for this bank.
Barclays PLC's net margin is 72.7% in the Mar 26 quarter, +42.8 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. That is the widest this company has ever printed on a full-year basis. Across 5 fiscal years the net margin has ranged 15.8% to 26.8%. The current quarter is running above every full year in that window.
Barclays PLC's net margin is 72.7% in the Mar 26 quarter, +42.8 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. That is the widest this company has ever printed on a full-year basis. Across 5 fiscal years the net margin has ranged 15.8% to 26.8%. The current quarter is running above every full year in that window.
The latest quarter's net margin is 72.7%, +42.8 pp against the same quarter a year ago. Across 5 fiscal years the net margin has ranged 15.8%–26.8%, and FY25's 26.8% is the top of that band — a record year.
Why: the numbers show the net margin move clearly, but the cost lines behind it sit below what we hold — so we state the move without inventing its driver.
Worth repeating from the valuation section: cheap against its own history on record margins is not the same thing as cheap — a record margin flatters every ratio built on top of it.
→ The net margin held — did that reach the bottom line? Next: profit +3.8% in the latest quarter.
Net profit Net profit is what survives every cost, interest and tax — the number EPS, dividends and book value all grow from.
Barclays PLC earned $2.2 B of net profit in the Mar 26 quarter, +3.8% year on year. It is the 2nd consecutive quarter of growth. Full-year FY25 profit was $7.2 B. The 4-year compound rate is 0.5%. That is 72.7% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned $2.1 B.
Barclays PLC earned $2.2 B of net profit in the Mar 26 quarter, +3.8% year on year. It is the 2nd consecutive quarter of growth. Full-year FY25 profit was $7.2 B. The 4-year compound rate is 0.5%. That is 72.7% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned $2.1 B.
Mar 26 profit was $2.2 B, +3.8% year on year — the 2nd consecutive quarter of growth. On the full year, FY25 printed $7.2 B (+13.4%), and the 4-year compound rate is 0.5%.
Why profit moved: revenue contributed −57.3% and the margin +42.8 pp — the quarter was margin-led: most of the profit growth came from keeping more of each sale.
Pace comparison, last four quarters: profit +11.8% vs revenue −22.9%. Profit is growing faster than sales — fixed costs are being spread over a bigger base, and each extra dollar of revenue drops more to the bottom line.
→ Profit is up — how clean is the loan book behind it? Next: we hold no quarterly loan-book numbers — the section says so plainly.
Asset quality — the ladder Gross NPA is the slice of the loan book where repayments have stopped. Net NPA is what remains after the money already set aside against those loans. Falling is healing; rising is damage arriving.
Loan-book quality history is not available for Barclays PLC, so this section names the gap rather than estimating a ratio. No gross or net non-performing-asset series is filed in a form this page can read, and none is inferred from the profit line. The income, margin and return sections above carry the evidence this business does report.
We do not hold quarterly loan-book quality numbers for this bank, so this section states that plainly rather than working around it.
Why: loan-book quality is the engine room of a bank, and its drivers — slippages, recoveries, provisioning — sit below what we hold for this name; the sections around it carry the reads we can stand behind.
→ Behind the profits — is the book itself still growing? Next: revenue grew +8.2% in FY25.
The loan book We read the loan book through revenue — when the book and the businesses grow, revenue grows with them. It is a rough proxy, and we say so: rate moves and fee swings can shift it a few points in any one year.
Barclays PLC's revenue grew +8.2% in FY25 to $26.9 B, so the book is growing. The latest quarter ran −57.3% year on year. The net margin on that income is 72.7%, +42.8 percentage points against a year ago. Interest income is a proxy for the book; rate moves can shift it a few points in any one year.
FY25 revenue was $26.9 B, +8.2% on the year, and the latest quarter ran −57.3% year on year. The net margin on that revenue is 72.7% this quarter (+42.8 pp YoY) — growth with a widening margin on it.
The synthesis: a lender compounds when the book grows while the margin holds and the loan book stays clean — with quarterly loan-quality numbers missing here, revenue growth and margin are the two we watch.
→ Does all of this actually earn its keep on equity? Next: ROE is 10%.
Returns on equity and assets Two numbers rate a bank: ROE — what it earns on shareholder money — and ROA — what it earns on everything it deploys. ROE above ~13–15% earns its keep; below that, growth builds book slowly.
Barclays PLC earns a return on equity of 9% in FY25. Its trough over the ladder below was 7% in FY23. On the asset side every $100 of the balance sheet earned about $0.47, which is the return before leverage is applied.
FY25 ROE came in at 9%, recovered from a FY23 trough of 7%. On assets, the latest reading is about 0.47% — every $100 the bank deploys earns roughly $0.47 a year. That return is below the bar a bank must clear to compound book value quickly — which is also the honest reason the stock trades where it does.
Why ROE moved: profit compounded 0.5% a year over 4 years while the equity base grew more slowly — earnings recovering faster than book value builds is what lifts ROE off a trough.
→ Who owns this bank, and are they adding or leaving? Next: short interest is 0.0% of the float.
Dividend A dividend is cash paid out per share. Dividend per share is the declared amount for the period; the trailing twelve-month total is the four most recent quarters added together.
Barclays PLC paid $0.17 per share over the last four reported quarters, up 1.8% on a year ago. The most recent declaration was $0.06 for Dec 25. Against the current price of $27.0 that is a trailing yield of 0.63%, measured on dividends already paid rather than on a forecast.
Barclays PLC paid $0.17 per share over the last four reported quarters, up 1.8% on a year ago. The most recent declaration was $0.06 for Dec 25. Against the current price of $27.0 that is a trailing yield of 0.63%, measured on dividends already paid rather than on a forecast.
Barclays PLC paid $0.17 per share across the last four reported quarters, most recently $0.06 for Dec 25. That is up 1.8% against the same quarter a year earlier. Against the current price of $27.0 the trailing twelve months work out to 0.63% — trailing dividends measured against today's price, not a forward estimate.
→ A payout is cash leaving the business. Next: what the balance sheet looks like behind it.
Debt
For a bank, borrowings are raw material, not a warning sign — solvency is read through the returns and the loan book. A manufacturer’s debt is a claim against its profits, so the debt-to-equity lens that works everywhere else misleads on a lender and is not applied here.
A manufacturer’s debt is a claim against its profits; a bank’s borrowings are its inventory — money taken in to be lent out. The debt lens that works everywhere else misleads here, so this page does not apply it. The solvency questions for a bank — is the loan book sound, is the equity earning — are read through the loan-book and returns sections above.
→ Who owns this, and are they adding or leaving? Next: short interest is 0.0% of the float.
Ownership There is no quarter-by-quarter holder register to read here, so we read the crowd through short interest — the slice of tradable shares currently sold short, positioned for a fall.
0.0% of Barclays PLC's tradable float is currently sold short — the crowd is not positioned against this stock. At typical trading volumes those positions would take about 0.9 days to buy back. There is no quarter-by-quarter holder register to read for this filer, so the crowd is read through short interest instead.
The latest reading: 0.0% of the float is sold short, and at typical trading volumes it would take about 0.9 days to buy those positions back. The crowd is not positioned against this stock. This is a single point-in-time reading — we do not yet hold its history, so we show no trend chart.
Why it sits there: who is doing the shorting, and why, does not travel with the number — the level is shown without inventing its story.
→ One last check: does the safety math agree? Next: the balance-sheet safety line.
Safety line The Z-score estimates how far a company sits from balance-sheet distress — above roughly 3 is safe, below roughly 1.8 is the danger zone. It was built for manufacturers, so it is not applied to banks and lenders.
Barclays PLC: the Z-score is omitted — it was built for manufacturers, not banks, and applying it here would be theatre. The Z-score was built for manufacturers and is not applied to banks and lenders, so solvency here is read from the capital and asset-quality lines instead.
The safety line in one sentence: the Z-score is omitted — it was built for manufacturers, not banks, and applying it here would be theatre.
| Company | P/BV | Mkt cap | Revenue | EPS | ROE | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barclays PLC this page | 0.9× | $91B | Mixed | |||
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 2.7× | $950B | Turning around | |||
| Bank of America Corporation | 1.6× | $439B | Improving | |||
| HSBC Holdings plc | 1.8× | $353B | Turning around | |||
| Royal Bank of Canada | 2.8× | $292B | Consistent | |||
| Wells Fargo & Company | 1.6× | $263B | Mixed | |||
| Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. | 1.9× | $252B | Mixed | |||
| Citigroup Inc. | 1.2× | $222B | Mixed | |||
| The Toronto-Dominion Bank | 2.2× | $199B | Topping out | |||
| Banco Santander, S.A. | 1.5× | $199B | Improving | |||
| UBS Group AG | 1.7× | $161B | Improving | |||
| Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. | 1.4× | $161B | Turning around | |||
| Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. | 2.1× | $147B | Mixed | |||
| Bank of Montreal | 2.0× | $127B | Mixed | |||
| The Bank of Nova Scotia | 1.7× | $109B | Mixed | |||
| Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce | 2.2× | $108B | Consistent | |||
| The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation | 2.7× | $106B | Mixed | |||
| ING Groep N.V. | 1.6× | $95B | Improving | |||
| The Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Limited | 2.1× | $2B | Improving | |||
| Forbright, Inc. | 1.0× | $1B | — | — | — | — |
Frequently asked questions
What is Barclays PLC's stock price today?
Barclays PLC trades at $27.0, +37.5% over the past year. The company is valued at $91.0 B. The stock sits at 89% of its 52-week range of $19–$28, +12.4% versus its 200-day average. On the tape, the price is in a confirmed uptrend, 11 weeks in. — as of 29 July 2026.
What were Barclays PLC's latest quarterly results?
Barclays PLC reported total income of $3.0 B and net profit of $2.2 B for the Mar 26 quarter. Income fell 57.3% and profit rose 3.8% year on year. Earnings per share were $0.56. The net margin was 72.7%, 42.8 pp higher than a year earlier. — as of 29 July 2026.
What is Barclays PLC's revenue?
Barclays PLC reported revenue of $3.0 B in the Mar 26 quarter, −57.3% year on year. For the full FY25 fiscal year, revenue was $26.9 B (+8.2%). Over the last 4 years revenue compounded at −12.0% a year. — as of 29 July 2026.
What is Barclays PLC's profit?
Barclays PLC earned $2.2 B of net profit in the Mar 26 quarter, +3.8% year on year — the 2nd straight quarter of growth. Full-year FY25 profit was $7.2 B. The net margin ran 72.7% in the latest quarter. — as of 29 July 2026.
What is Barclays PLC's market cap?
Barclays PLC's market capitalisation is $91.0 B at a stock price of $27.0. Market cap is the share price multiplied by shares outstanding, so it is restated whenever the price moves. — as of 29 July 2026.
What is Barclays PLC's P/BV ratio?
Barclays PLC trades at a P/BV of 0.9×, at the 70th percentile of its own 5-year range, against a long-run median of 0.8×. This is a comparison with the stock's own history, not a value call — as of 29 July 2026.
Does Barclays PLC pay a dividend?
Yes — Barclays PLC declared $0.06 per share for Dec 25, and $0.17 per share across the last four reported quarters. The latest quarter is up 1.8% on the same quarter a year earlier. — as of 29 July 2026.
What is Barclays PLC's dividend per share?
Barclays PLC's most recently declared dividend is $0.06 per share for Dec 25, giving $0.17 per share over the trailing twelve months. Each figure is the amount declared for that quarter as reported, added across four quarters for the trailing total. — as of 29 July 2026.
What is Barclays PLC's dividend yield?
Barclays PLC's trailing dividend yield is 0.63%: $0.17 declared per share across the last four reported quarters, against a share price of $27.0. Each quarter’s figure is the amount declared for that quarter as reported, added across four quarters and divided by the latest close. — as of 29 July 2026.
Is Barclays PLC overvalued?
On its own history, Barclays PLC looks expensive against its own history: its P/BV of 0.9× sits at the 70th percentile of its 5-year range (long-run median 0.8×). That is a percentile read against the stock's own past, not a price opinion or a direction call. One caveat: the net margin is the best this company has ever printed — cheap on record margins is not the same thing as cheap. — as of 29 July 2026.
Is Barclays PLC growing?
Yes — Barclays PLC is growing: latest-quarter revenue −57.3% year on year, profit +3.8%, and the the net margin +42.8 pp at 72.7%. The 4-year compound rates are −12.0% (revenue) and 0.5% (profit). The earnings engine currently reads: improving — as of 29 July 2026.
How is Barclays PLC performing?
Barclays PLC is in a confirmed uptrend, 11 weeks in. Its latest quarter's income fell 57.3% and profit rose 3.8% year on year. Against the S&P 500 it has been ahead on a trailing-13-week view for 9 weeks. This describes what the data did, not a rating. — as of 29 July 2026.
What stage is Barclays PLC in?
Mixed — no clean majority across the growth curves, ROE holding at 9.5% — the per-curve reads carry the story. The read comes from the last 12 quarters of growth (revenue growth −21.0% latest, profit growth +9.8% latest, eps growth +15.8% latest) plus the ROE curve, classified by deterministic rules — a trajectory read, not a buy or sell call — as of 29 July 2026.
Is Barclays PLC in an uptrend?
Yes — the price is in a confirmed uptrend (week 11 of stage 2), trading +12.4% versus its 200-day average and at 89% of its 52-week range. Price stages cycle base → advance → top → decline, and the stage names where this stock sits in that cycle — as of 29 July 2026.
Is Barclays PLC beating the market?
On recent form, yes — Barclays PLC has been ahead of the S&P 500 on a trailing-13-week view for 9 straight weeks, the same metric the week-by-week ribbon on this page draws. Separately, on the cumulative view: over the last 10.1 years the stock moved +269% against the S&P 500's +248% — ahead of the index over the full window. — as of 29 July 2026.
Will Barclays PLC's stock price go up?
This page publishes no price forecast for Barclays PLC. What it measures instead: the stock price is $27.0, the price is in a confirmed uptrend 11 weeks in. Its P/BV of 0.9× sits at the 70th percentile of its own 5-year range. — as of 29 July 2026.
Is the market betting against Barclays PLC?
No — short interest is 0.0% of Barclays PLC's tradable float, about 0.9 days to cover at typical volumes. That is a low reading: the crowd is not positioned against this stock. With no quarter-by-quarter holder register here, short interest is the cleanest crowd read we hold — as of 29 July 2026.
Is Barclays PLC's loan book healthy?
We do not hold quarterly loan-book quality numbers for Barclays PLC, so this page says that plainly. The cleanest available reads are revenue growth (+8.2% in FY25) and the net margin on it (72.7%) — as of 29 July 2026.
Where is Barclays PLC in its business cycle?
Barclays PLC's FY25 net margin was 26.8%, against a 5-year band of 15.8%–26.8%: the top of the band — a record year. Record profitability is late-cycle territory: every ratio flatters at the top, and the story leans on margins holding. The latest quarter ran 72.7%. Profitability versus a company's own long band is the cleanest cycle clock this page holds — as of 29 July 2026.
What could break the Barclays PLC story?
Biggest watch item: the net margin is the best this company has ever printed — every ratio flatters at record profitability, so the whole story leans on the net margin holding. Mechanically, two Friday closes in a row below the 200-day average would end the price trend — that is the exit rule this page tracks — as of 29 July 2026.
Is Barclays PLC a stock worth studying right now?
This is not investment advice. The machine read: Barclays PLC is printing record margins on a fuller multiple. From here the earnings must do all the lifting. The sharpest open question: the next one or two quarters of delivery. Every number on this page is drawn deterministically from the raw series, with no forecasts and no price opinions — as of 29 July 2026.