Don't Take a Position in Barclays PLC Stocks Without Knowing Its Fundamentals!

By Chris Stiles • Thursday, December 21 12:47 • Permanent Link

Barclays PLC logged a 1.0% change during today's afternoon session, and is now trading at a price of $7.75 per share. The S&P 500 index moved 0.0%. BCS's trading volume is 5,387,158 compared to the stock's average volume of 12,863,320.

The one analyst following Barclays PLC has given it a rating of underperform and a target price of $7.31 per share. Now, the company is currently trading 6.02% away from its target price.

Anyone interested in buying BCS should be aware of the facts below:

Barclays PLC has moved -0.3% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 22.9%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 1.72, Barclays PLC has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 4.5 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
BCS has a forward P/E ratio of 7.0 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $1.11 per share
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 2.11 compared to its sector average of 1.58
Barclays PLC provides various financial services in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
Based in London, the company has 87,400 full time employees and a market cap of $29.32 Billion. Barclays PLC currently returns an annual dividend yield of 1.0%.

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