Barclays PLC (BCS)
Financials · NYQ
Price as at 1 Oct 2026, 15:18 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Barclays PLC trades at $23.22, which is 104% below the $47.29 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a valuation model is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 45 out of 100, which is a moat, but not a deep one. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 12.0 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
BCS dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $0.620 | 2 |
| 2025 | $0.434 | 2 |
| 2024 | $0.416 | 2 |
| 2023 | $0.384 | 2 |
| 2022 | $0.325 | 2 |
| 2021 | $0.166 | 2 |
| 2020 | $0.312 | 1 |
| 2019 | $0.354 | 2 |
| 2018 | $0.242 | 2 |
| 2017 | $0.152 | 2 |
| 2016 | $0.248 | 2 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
BCS earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 4 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About Barclays PLC
Barclays PLC provides various financial services in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. The company operates through Barclays UK; Barclays UK Corporate Bank; Barclays Private Bank and Wealth Management; Barclays Investment Bank; and Barclays US Consumer Bank segments. It offers financial services, such as current accounts, savings accounts, mortgages and unsecured lending, such as credit cards and loans retail banking, wholesale banking, investment banking, wealth management, and investment management services, as well as lending products. In addition, the company engages in securities dealing activities and issuing of credit cards. The company was formerly known as Barclays Bank public limited company and changed its name to Barclays PLC in January 1985. Barclays PLC was founded in 1690 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
BCS passes 2 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
14 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Ken Fisher, Fisher Asset Management, LLC$2.52B · 0.8% of book
- Sarah Ketterer, CAUSEWAY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$106.79M · 1.2% of book
- Cliff Asness, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$38.15M · 0.0% of book
- Ken Griffin, CITADEL ADVISORS LLC$30.65M · 0.0% of book
- Arrowstreet Capital, ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$24.23M · 0.0% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
Politician trades in BCS
We hold 10 disclosed trades in BCS by members of Congress and executive-branch officials. The latest 5:
- Alan Armstrong · SenateBuy · $1,001 - $15,000 · traded 30 Mar 2026 · disclosed 21 Jul 2026
- Bruce Westerman · HouseSell · $1,001 - $15,000 · traded 21 Apr 2025 · disclosed 12 May 2025
- Bruce Westerman · HouseBuy · $1,001 - $15,000 · traded 3 Mar 2025 · disclosed 16 Apr 2025
- Daniel Goldman · HouseSell · $15,001 - $50,000 · traded 10 Jul 2023 · disclosed 13 Aug 2023
- Daniel Goldman · HouseSell · $15,001 - $50,000 · traded 31 Mar 2023 · disclosed 17 Apr 2023
A disclosure reports a value band, not an amount, and is due up to 45 days after the trade; some arrive later. Every filer we track, each with their own page, is on the Congress trading tracker.
BCS peers
The largest companies in the same industry (Banks - Diversified), then in the same sector.
- JPM JPMorgan Chase & Co.
- BAC Bank of America Corporation
- HSBA.L HSBC Holdings plc
- RY Royal Bank of Canada
- TD The Toronto-Dominion Bank
- SAN Banco Santander, S.A.
- UBS UBS Group AG
- SMFNF Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc.
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Common questions
Is Barclays PLC (BCS) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $47.29, BCS at $23.22 is 104% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own BCS?
14 of the institutions we track reported a position in BCS in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is BCS's P/E ratio?
BCS trades at 12.0 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Does Barclays PLC (BCS) pay a dividend?
Yes. Barclays PLC yields 1.68% at the current share price. It has paid $0.620 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 39 complete calendar years. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.
Where does SteadyShares get its BCS data?
Fundamentals for BCS come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NYQ; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 1 Oct 2026, 15:18 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 88/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.