Barclays Share Discussion Threads

[portside1] 06/12/2017 16:55

BERNIE I buy for divs hold loads of barc and now have bought loads of cna but would now like cna to buy back shares to boost the share price I am only 5p down but very happy with my holdings

[bernie37] 06/12/2017 16:44

Stocks with dividend appeal are becoming more attractive to me as inflation rises, which is why I’m focusing on the investment potential of Barclays PLC (LON:BARC) (BARC.L), AstraZeneca plc (LON:AZN) (AZN.L), Unilever plc (LON:ULVR) (ULVR.L), Imperial Brands PLC (LON:IMB) (IMB.L) and Persimmon plc (LON:PSN) (PSN.L).



Barclays may not seem like a very appealing income stock at the moment. However, its dividend payments are forecast to double next year, and this puts the stock on a prospective dividend yield of 3%. With dividend headroom being high, the company could raise them at a fast pace beyond next year, and this may lead to Barclays becoming a more valuable income stock in the long run.

[portside1] 06/12/2017 15:36

I want out , lets have another referendum on the big issues do we want all these migrants do we want to be run by the eu do we want to keep paying billions to the eu


and remember this if we go to the eu we can not get medical cover fact
but all migrants get it free here

I sent 56 e mails to all sorts of mps on this issue they all said the same they should except the nhs card but they would not in my street 3 families have come back from spain they can get no medical at all pensioners told to go home fact

[portside1] 06/12/2017 15:30

diku she a waste of time a complete bimbo

[grahamite2] 06/12/2017 13:23

Mrs Thatcher didn't "rely on her advisers."

[diku] 06/12/2017 12:57

porty...yes she was a bit silent but then with her previous role... life had become too cushy as she was within her comfort zone for so long...so at least one has to admire her for taking on the PM role...she could have easily turned it down and stayed within her comfort zone...Brexit has too many unknown variables which no doubt even she or others don't know...so she is relying on her advisers, consultants, lawyers etc etc...

[johnwise] 06/12/2017 10:37

The real reason for General Mike Flynn’s contacts with the Russians?

" I found the piece below by US commentator, Pat Buchanan, interesting. He suggests that just before the election Obama tried to sabotage a possible Trump presidency by expelling 35 Russian ‘diplomats’ thus causing tensions with the Russians and by backing an anti-Israel, anti-semitic resolution at the UN."

[portside1] 06/12/2017 08:33

diku I disagree with your comment as a right wing con I want some one with some guts and do the job not make bad decisions ever time she opens her mouth .

she is far fro smart or bright .and she was a remoaner and silent

[diku] 06/12/2017 08:26

She is doing her best under the Brexit circumstances thrown at her...Politics in itself is the problem...as for other politicians they are just noise and jockeying positioning for the higher office job...

[johnwise] 05/12/2017 22:43

Mrs May spends most of the time saying nothing and hiding under her desk. When you Yanks have finished with Donald Trump could we Brits borrow him, please?

[bernie37] 05/12/2017 17:57

Is it a good long term opportunitie

[johnwise] 05/12/2017 16:12

Barclays Tests Regulation Technology Under FCA Programme

Barclays is testing technology that ensures the bank implements changes to regulation correctly as part of an innovation drive by the Financial Conduct Authority.

[johnwise] 05/12/2017 09:02

General Election Most Seats Betting Odds

[portside1] 05/12/2017 08:33

CHUCKER THE LABOUR MP IS LYING TO THE PUBLIC TAKING THE VOTERS FOR FOOLS

[johnwise] 05/12/2017 08:27

Trump is doing great, he won with jobs growth, he got the tax reforms, he's got the travel ban, now all he needs to do is BUILD THE WALL and he will have succeeded with his main campaign pledges.

[portside1] 05/12/2017 08:25

two labour remainer mps on the front bench refused to be on tv with him to give out their lies they new he was correct

[portside1] 05/12/2017 08:21

TIM MARTIN on sky news yesterday saying the remainers who run big businesses and mps

are lying about brexit they are just telling lies . about food prices and tariffs

he said is goods will not go up it will make food cheaper

[johnwise] 05/12/2017 07:55

Barclays unveils mobile branch services for armed forces

Barclays is launching a mobile branch at Colchester Garrison, one of the UK’s largest military bases, to overcome the practical difficulties servicemen and women can face getting out of the military base and into a branch to undertake their banking activities.

[grahamite2] 05/12/2017 07:38

Thanks bernie for the Schroders piece about the stress tests. I have copied it over to the Lloyds thread.

[johnwise] 05/12/2017 07:24

Bitcoin cash machines is being exploited by drug gangs

Up to four in five of those using the new ATMs are suspected drug dealers,

Criminals can launder money – and bypass bank checks – by putting high-denomination notes into the machines to convert them into Bitcoin.

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[neilrich] 04/12/2017 21:53

Whistle-blower investigation equals storm in a tea cup, it shall come to nothing, the more they delay the decision the less chance of this causing any harm.

[bernie37] 04/12/2017 20:10

U.K. regulators investigating Barclays Plc Chief Executive Officer Jes Staley’s attempts to unmask a whistle-blower have pushed back their decision a second time, with the probe now expected to be concluded early 2018, people with knowledge of the process said.

The delay comes as investigators at the Financial Conduct Authority are taking longer than expected to complete their review, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified speaking about a current case. The FCA had originally indicated it was targeting an October verdict, then pushed this back to December, Bloomberg News has previously reported.

Spokesmen for the bank and the FCA declined comment.


The whistle-blowing scandal is one of a series of unresolved issues hanging over the lender and its top executive, who may have to step down if the regulator deems him unfit to lead a financial institution. The British bank is in discussions with the U.S. Justice Department over a potential multi-billion-dollar fine for its role in selling toxic mortgage bonds that contributed to the financial crisis. In the U.K., four former Barclays executives will stand trial in 2019 on allegations they conspired to commit fraud over the bank’s 2008 fundraising with Qatar.

Probes of this nature can take years to complete. While banks usually hire law firms to conduct their own internal investigation into wrongdoing, the FCA can’t accept any report wholesale and must conduct its own inquiries. If the target agrees to settle with the FCA at an early stage, the parties can often take weeks going back and forth on the wording of a penalty notice.

Since the scandal broke, the FCA has interviewed the CEO twice, as well as other officials including Mike Ashley, the board member who supervises whistle-blowing complaints and Chief Operating Officer Paul Compton, Bloomberg News has reported. It’s not known what precisely is causing the repeated extensions of the probe.

Barclays reprimanded Staley in April after discovering he’d repeatedly tried to identify a whistle-blower, even after colleagues said it was inappropriate. The CEO may forfeit his entire 1.3 million-pound ($1.7 million) bonus.

The probe is the first test of the U.K.’s Senior Managers Regime, a set of rules introduced last year to restore personal liability to financial executives for bad or irresponsible behavior. The FCA has also placed an increasing emphasis on the importance of internal complaints, requiring firms to nominate a top executive or board member as a "whistle-blowersR17; champion."

The whistle-blower controversy dates back to June 2016, when Barclays’ board received an anonymous letter raising concerns about one of Staley’s former JPMorgan Chase & Co. colleagues, Tim Main, Bloomberg News previously reported. The letters flagged issues of a personal nature about him and Staley’s role in dealing with those concerns at JPMorgan.

After learning about the letters, Staley made two attempts to discover who wrote them, despite being informed that it was inappropriate for him to do so after his first try. The second attempt was made after he thought the matter had been resolved. Barclays said in April that the board thought Staley “honestly, but mistakenly, believed” his actions were permitted.

[bernie37] 04/12/2017 16:48

Technical analysis of Barclays PLC (BCS) stock is the study of technical indicators and past trends. For technical analysis of stock and trends here we employ the use of tools such as trading volumes, Simple Moving averages, RSI (14), and ATR (14) to determine the future behavior of a stock. Much of this practice involves discovering the overall trend line of a stock’s movement. Technical analysis of stocks and trends has been used by serious traders for decades. Although it does not guarantee success and is not 100% accurate, it is still one of the two key methods of analyzing stock prices, along with fundamental analysis.

52 week High and Low

Barclays PLC (BCS) shares have been seen trading -14.85% off its 52 week- peak value and changed 10.44% from its 52 week-bottom price value. The “percentage off the 52-week high or low” refers to when a stock current price is relative to where it has traded over the last 52 weeks. This gives investors an idea of how much the security has moved in the last year and whether it is trading near the top, middle or bottom of the range.

Simple Moving averages

Chart patterns can be difficult to read given the volatility in price movements of BCS. Moving averages can help smooth out these erratic movements by removing day-to-day fluctuations and make trends easier to spot. Since they take the average of past price movements, moving averages are better for accurately reading past price movements rather than predicting future past movements. We have taken technical analysis of Barclays PLC (BCS)’s stock recent trading price and 3 moving average price of updated past trading days (20, 50 and 200). It shows a stock price recent trends and movement that can help investor and traders in trading. Moving average is popular technical tool and can be customized to any time frame, suiting both long term investors and short-term traders.

In terms of Barclays PLC (BCS) stock price comparison to its moving averages, shares of company are 2.91% away from the 50-day moving average and 5.03% away from 20-day average. If we take a long term observation, shares have been trading at a distance of -2.63% from the 200-day moving average. Moving averages are used as a strong indicator for technical stock analysis and it helps investors in figuring out where the stock has been and also facilitate in determining where it may be possibly heading. There can be no complete understanding of moving averages without an understanding of trends. A trend is simply a price that is continuing to move in a certain direction. There are only three real trends that a security can follow: (1) An uptrend, or bullish trend, means that the price is moving higher. (2) A downtrend, or bearish trend, means the price is moving lower. . (3) A sideways trend, where the price is moving sideways. The important thing to remember about trends is that prices rarely move in a straight line. Therefore, moving-average lines are used to help a trader more easily identify the direction of the trend.

Volume and Price

On Friday, Dec 01, Shares of Barclays PLC (BCS) were valued at $10.26 and moved -0.87% as of a recent closing trade. A total volume of 5.45 million shares were traded versus to average volume of 2.77 million shares. If you are going to be trading the stock, you want to ensure volume is healthy so you are not stuck in a position. Volumes indicate how many shares are bought and sold over a given period of time. The more active the share, higher would be its volume. Technical analysts believe that volume can serve as a warning signal as to whether a stock is on the verge of breaking into upside territory (high volume) or into a downside trend (low volume). Low volume of a security, even if it’s rising in price, can indicate a lack of conviction among investors. Conversely, high volume of a particular security can indicate that traders are placing their long-term confidence in the investment. Volume is incredibly important to traders. Without volume, it becomes more difficult to buy or sell securities when you want to, and at the price you want.

Relative Strength Index (RSI)

Barclays PLC (BCS)’s Relative Strength Index (RSI) is 62.09. RSI is a technical indicator of price momentum, comparing the size of recent gains to the size of recent losses and establishes oversold and overbought positions. Technical analysts have little regard for the value of a company. They use historic price data to observe stock price patterns to predict the direction of that price going forward. Analysts use common formulas and ratios to accomplish this. The Relative Strength Index (RSI), developed by J. Welles Wilder, is a momentum oscillator that measures the speed and change of price movements. The RSI oscillates between 0 and 100. A value between 0 and 30 is considered oversold; hence the trader should look at buying opportunities. A value between 70 and 100 is considered overbought; hence the trader should look at selling opportunities.

Performance

Barclays PLC (BCS) held 4.27 billion outstanding shares currently. The company have shares float of 4.23 billion. Now have a look at past performance (weekly performance to year to date performance) how Barclays PLC (BCS) has been moved; whether it performed well or not. BCS reported a change of 1.79% over the last week and performed 5.88% over the last month while its year to date (YTD) performance revealed an activity trend of -6.73%. The stock’s quarterly performance specifies a shift of 3.22%, and its last twelve month performance is stands at -5.96% while moved -5.52% for the past six months.

Volatility

Average True Range (14) for Barclays PLC (BCS) is stands at 0.17. ATR is a volatility indicator. Volatility measures the strength of the price action, and is often overlooked for clues on market direction. The ATR is fairly simple to calculate and only needs historical price data. Simply a stock experiencing a high level of volatility has a higher ATR, and a low volatility stock has a lower ATR. The ATR may be used by market technicians to enter and exit trades, and it is a useful tool to add to a trading system. It was created to allow traders to more accurately measure the daily volatility of an asset by using simple calculations. The indicator does not indicate the price direction, rather it is used primarily to measure volatility caused by gaps and limit up or down moves. Typically, the Average True Range (ATR) is based on 14 periods.

Over the past week, the company showed volatility of 1.53%. Moving out to look at the previous month volatility move, the stock is at 1.03%. A stock with a price that fluctuates wildly, hits new highs and lows or moves erratically is considered highly volatile. A stock that maintains a relatively stable price has low volatility. A highly volatile stock is inherently riskier, but that risk cuts both ways. When investing in a volatile security, the risk of success is increased just as much as the risk of failure. For this reason, many traders with a high risk tolerance look to multiple measures of volatility to help inform their trade strategies. When selecting a security for investment, traders look at its historical volatility to help determine the relative risk of a potential trade. There are numerous metrics that measure volatility in differing contexts, and each trader has favorites. Regardless of which metric you utilize, a firm understanding of the concept of volatility and how it is measured is essential to successful investing. Simply put, volatility is a reflection of the degree to which price moves.

Beta measures volatility or systematic risk, of a stock or a portfolio in comparison to the market as a whole. 1 shows stock moves with market. < 1 means less volatile than market. > 1 indicates more volatile than the market. The stock’s beta is 0.96.

Analyst mean recommendation rating on a stock by the analyst community is at 1.00. Analyst rating score as published on FINVIZ are rated on a 1 to 5 scale. 1 is equivalent to a buy rating, 3 a hold rating, and 5 a sell rating.

[bernie37] 04/12/2017 16:41

Say you were to emerge blinking from your bunker in the wake of interest rates up to 4%, the value of the pound down more than a quarter, unemployment up almost 10%, residential property prices down by a third, commercial real estate prices down by two-fifths and world and UK GDP down 2.4% and 4.7% respectively – how many UK banks would you expect still to be standing?

The answer, if the latest round of ‘stress-tests&#8217; carried out by the Bank of England are anything to go by, is all of them – or at least all those that were tested.

Written off as almost uninvestable by much of the market, none of the listed UK banks failed the annual test of their financial resilience. This test is a kind of balance sheet war-gaming that also takes virtual lumps out of their investments.

Thus, in the latest scenario, the banks’ balance sheets were expected to cope with the FTSE 100 and the oil price plummeting respectively 45% and 52% in a year and the foreign exchange and bond markets similarly hit.

In terms of imposing stress, the regulator wasn't holding back.

Not holding back
And, as we mentioned, all the UK banks passed.

In the spirit of complete openness, Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) should perhaps have an asterisk by their names as they would not have passed based on the strength of their balance sheets at the end of December last year, which was when this round of stress-testing officially started.

Nevertheless, if you take into consideration the remedial actions those two banks have taken since – the capital generation and the disposals made – then the UK banking sector boasts a 100% pass rate.

All of them were judged to have enough capital on their balance sheets to withstand what was on paper, as it were, a pretty apocalyptic set of circumstances.

Banking bears
Should you be one of the legion of banking bears, of course, you might argue it is not possible to model such complex and dynamic systems on a spreadsheet, the world is a more complex place than that and the Bank of England, in common with everyone else, has no idea what will happen in the future.

And, here on The Value Perspective, we would completely agree with all those points.

But we would also point out the cumulative effect of the stress-tests the UK banks have just faced is almost twice as bad as 2008 and 2009 combined.

Over those two years, which sat at the heart of the financial crisis, the UK banking sector lost a total of £28.6bn at the pre-tax profit level whereas the stress-test they have just been through envisaged them losing £48.7bn in aggregate.

Whether you take the stress-tests detail by detail or as a whole, therefore, the banks passed.

Time to look at banks again?
In recent years, Barclays, RBS and Standard Chartered have all had to take some kind of action to shore up their finances but these latest results are arguably the cue for Standard Chartered to start paying a dividend again – RBS too, once it sorts out its litigation issues with the US Department of Justice.

It is, in other words, the green light for the UK’s banking system to return to normality and yet, as a sector, the banks are valued at 0.8x price to book – that is, as being worth 80% of their assets minus their liabilities.

As such, here on The Value Perspective, we cannot help but feel anyone who now chooses to disagree with the Bank of England’s verdict – continuing to avoid banks on the basis their balance sheets are too weak – are now really just looking for excuses.