Barclays Share Discussion Threads

[bernie37] 11/1/2018 13:48

Do we have a financial Callander for 2018.?

[clond] 11/1/2018 12:33

Bank stocks flying - except muppets bank stocks.
When ceo announces in Feb expect another 10 fall. I have checked the last 6 announcements per quarter and everyone tanks the price. This ceo costs an average 4.5% share loss on every statement. Perhaps he should let his understudy do it this time !

[clond] 11/1/2018 12:33

Bank stocks flying - except muppets bank stocks.
When ceo announces in Feb expect another 10 fall. I have checked the last 6 announcements per quarter and everyone tanks the price. This ceo costs an average 4.5% share loss on every statement. Perhaps he should let his understudy do it this time !

[bluetooth] 11/1/2018 12:16

Smart Investor

It is now more that 17 weeks since I requested a transfer and it is still not complete. I finally got through to the help desk (you can't email and the chat is always too busy) and a well spoken Scottish lad explained to me that these things take time and it was really AJ Bells fault and I hadn't confirmed my nationality etc. etc....

I wrote a letter of complaint following their "how to make a complaint" procedure over a month ago and needless to say, it has not been acknowledged.

Has anyone got compensation from this shower? If so how.

Bluetooth

[portside1] 11/1/2018 11:40

MC LIAR LIED TO INVESTORS BIG TIME , we should of listened to the lady on cmbc who said he was a dud and a user who just used other peoples ideas she said he was not that bright how true this was , he as taken over 35m in pay and done nothing just lied to start then nothing from the dud

[manics] 11/1/2018 09:53

I will say that does not make your a liar. It's just part of the BARC investor experience imo.

[manics] 11/1/2018 09:52

portside1: it stings because you did believe his message and then proliferated it here in good faith. You have been calling a 3 handle for 3 years this year and still nothing.

[portside1] 11/1/2018 09:11

RBS the bank that is bankrupt is now worth more than barcs ,

barcays silent ceo/chairman
mc liar the chairman who as not spoken since is first statement to holders I wil double the share price in 3 years , yes he lied a dud and is now going to resign before agm
Cheshire to be new chairman

[bernie37] 10/1/2018 18:13

U.K. blue-chip stocks advanced to a fresh record on Wednesday, as bank shares rose while those of home builders lost ground.

The pound, meanwhile, recovered some losses suffered after the release of U.K. economic data.

What the market is doing: The FTSE 100 index UKX, +0.23% was up 0.2% to end at 7,748.51, notching an all-time closing high and building on Tuesday‘s jump of 0.5%.

The pound GBPUSD, -0.1699% on Wednesday bought $1.3512, clawing back from an intraday low of $1.3482. Sterling late Tuesday in New York fetched $1.3539.

The 10-year gilt yield TMBMKGB-10Y, +0.33% recently was up less than 1 basis point to 1.28%, according to Tradeweb. Yields rise when prices fall.

Read: These 5 charts are all ‘flashing green’ for more U.K. stock records

What’s driving the market: A tug-of-war between sectors drove action on the London benchmark, even as the positive investing mood for stocks persisted.

Bank stocks got a lift, with Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC RBS, +4.60% higher after a ratings upgrade.

Bank stocks across Europe FX7, +2.08% outperformed the broader market Wednesday, keying off sector gains on Wall Street on Tuesday as the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield TMUBMUSD10Y, +0.43% crossed above 2.5% for the first time since March 2017. Higher long-term yields can help lift profit at banks.

[bernie37] 10/1/2018 17:51

Barclays has experienced a challenging period in recent years. The company has made significant changes to its structure and its organisation, with the aim being to simplify and improve its overall financial standing.

Now that its restructuring is largely complete following the sale of its stake in Barclays Africa, the outlook for the business may be more positive. Barclays is forecast to double dividends this year and deliver double digit EPS growth. With a management team that seems confident in its outlook, the stock could be a strong performer in the long run.

[nasdaqpat] 10/1/2018 16:53

The only way BARC's share price is going Up is if it prostrates itself at the feet of the Doodle controllers and allows itself to be taken over (ex Lehmans assets included). America is turning into one of the most vindictive and ethically perverse countries in the world.

[qantas] 10/1/2018 00:01

Please do your own research....

[johnwise] 09/1/2018 17:40

A TOP Spanish bank is looking to move its headquarters to London because bosses believe the capital will keep its place as the centre for European finance.

Alantra Partners SA, which is currently based in Madrid, is reportedly eyeing up new offices in the City despite Project Fear predictions of a post-Brexit exodus of financial institutions from the capital.

The investment bank oversees £3.3billion (€3.7billion) of assets and employs some 350 staff across 21 counties.

[bernie37] 09/1/2018 17:38

US Court denies Barclays’ request for rehearing in “dark pool” case

Barclays had sought to overturn a class certification decision which the bank saw as creating a dangerous precedent that may undermine the US capital markets.


In a brief Order issued on January 5, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied a petition by Barclays PLC (LON:BARC), its United States subsidiary Barclays Capital Inc., as well as three (former) senior officers of those companies – Robert Diamond, Antony Jenkins, and William White, for a rehearing of the Court’s decisions in a “dark pool” case.

The one-page order, seen by FinanceFeeds, does not provide any explanation of the Court’s decision. It simply states that Barclays’ petition for panel rehearing or, in the alternative, for rehearing en banc, is denied.

The action, captioned Strougo v. Barclays PLC (0:16-cv-01912), was brought by Joseph Waggoner, Mohit Sahni, and Barbara Strougo, who had purchased Barclays’ American Depository Shares (ADS).

According to the plaintiffs, Barclays had violated § 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 15 U.S.C. § 78j(b), and the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Rule 10b‐5.4§ 10(b) by making false statements and omissions about LX and Liquidity Profiling. The Plaintiffs alleged that Barclays’ statements about LX and the Liquidity Profiling system were materially false and misleading by omission or otherwise because, contrary to its assertions, Barclays did not in fact protect clients from aggressive high frequency trading activity, did not restrict predatory traders’ access to other clients, and did not eliminate traders who continued to behave in a predatory manner.

The result of these fraudulent statements, the plaintiffs asserted, was that the price of Barclays’ ADS had been maintained at an inflated level that reflected investor confidence in the integrity of the company until the New York Attorney General’s lawsuit was filed on June 25, 2014. That lawsuit alleged that Barclays was violating provisions of the New York Martin Act in operating its dark pool. The launch of the lawsuit led to a steep drop in the price of Barclays’ ADS.

The Plaintiffs had sought class certification for investors who purchased Barclays’ ADS between August 2, 2011, and June 25, 2014. The New York Southern District Court granted the certification.

In its petition for rehearing, which was just denied by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Barclays says that the problem lies in the need (or its lack thereof) for the plaintiffs to present any direct empirical evidence of “market efficiency” (i.e., that the price of the security reacted to material, new information) to build a case against a public company.

According to the bank, the Court rulings create a “rubberstamp” for any plaintiff seeking class certification in a securities case against a large, publicly traded company: plaintiffs will almost automatically be able to invoke the Basic presumption and defendants will effectively be unable to rebut it.

The decision, according to Barclays, undermines the US capital markets by making every large, publicly traded company located or listed here subject to significant class action fraud suits even in the absence of any proof that any investor relied on any alleged misstatements.

[bernie37] 08/1/2018 18:04

January 5, 2018 Nasdaq Journal Staff 0 Comments Barclays PLC, BCS, NYSE:BCS


Shares of Barclays PLC (NYSE:BCS) are currently trading at $10.93, experiencing a change of -1.09% with 265,451 shares trading hands. The stock holds an average trading capacity of 2.83M shares for the past three months. When we compare its current volume with average for the same time of day, a Relative Volume (usually displayed as ratio) of 0.79 is obtained. It is kind of a like a radar for how “in-play”; a stock is. The higher the relative volume is the more in play it is because more traders are watching and trading it. This is something that Investors should look for in all the stocks they are trading and is an important indicator to keep tabs on.

Is The Stock Safe to Invest? (Market Capitalization Analysis):

Now investors want to know the actual market worth of the company in the Stock Market. Market worth or Market capitalization is calculated by multiplying the price of a stock by its total number of outstanding shares. As a company has 4.26B shares outstanding and its current share price is $10.93, the market cap is $47.08B. From a safety point of view, a company’s size and market value do matter. All things being equal, large cap stocks are considered safer than small cap stocks. However, small cap stocks have greater potential for growth.

Although market capitalization is key to consider, don’t invest (or not invest) based solely on it. It’s just one measure of value. As a serious shareholder, you need to look at plentiful factors that can assist you determine whether any given stock is a good investment.

Is The Stock A Good Investment? (P/E Analysis):

Price-earnings ratio, also known as P/E ratio, is a tool that is used by shareholders to help decide whether they should buy a stock. Basically, the P/E ratio tells potential shareholders how much they have to pay for every $1 of earnings. The formula for calculating the price-earnings ratio for any stock is simple: the market value per share divided by the earnings per share (EPS). This is represented as the equation (P/EPS), where P is the market price and EPS is the earnings per share. As the current market price of the stock is $10.93 and diluted EPS for the trailing twelve month is 0.61, the P/E ratio for the stock comes out as 18.03.

Generally, shareholders love stocks with a low price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio. The perception is that the lower the P/E, the higher will be the value of the stock. The simple logic that a stock’s current market price does not justify (is not equivalent to) its higher earnings and therefore has room to run is behind shareholders’ inclination toward low P/E stocks.

Price/Earnings to Growth – PEG Ratio Analysis:

The price/earnings to growth ratio (PEG ratio) is a stock’s price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio divided by the growth rate of its earnings for a specified time period. For now, the company has PEG ratio of 0.97. The PEG ratio is used to determine a stock’s value while taking the company’s earnings growth into account, and is considered to provide a more complete picture than the P/E ratio.

Despite the fact that a low P/E ratio may make a stock look like a good buy, factoring in the company’s growth rate to get the stock’s PEG ratio can tell a different story. The lower the PEG ratio, the more the stock may be undervalued given its earnings performance. The degree to which a PEG ratio value indicates an over or underpriced stock varies by industry and by company type; though a broad rule of thumb is that a PEG ratio below one is desirable. Also, the accuracy of the PEG ratio depends on the inputs used. Using historical growth rates, for example, may provide an inaccurate PEG ratio if future growth rates are predictable to deviate from historical growth rates. To distinguish between calculation methods using future growth and historical growth, the terms “forward PEG” and “trailing PEG” are sometimes used.

Stock’s Liquidity Analysis:

Presently, 12.00% shares of Barclays PLC (NYSE:BCS) are owned by insiders with 0.00% six-month change in the insider ownership. The insider filler data counts the number of monthly positions over 3 month and 12 month time spans. Short-term as well long term shareholders always focus on the liquidity of the stocks so for that concern, liquidity measure in recent quarter results of the company was recorded N/A as current ratio and on the opponent side the debt to equity ratio was 1.59 and long-term debt to equity ratio also remained 1.59.

Brief Overview on Stock’s Performances:

The stock showed weekly performance of 2.13%, which was maintained for the month at 6.45%. Likewise, the performance for the quarter was recorded as 8.55% and for the year was -4.74%. Analysts’ mean recommendation for the stock is 1.00 (A rating of less than 2 means buy, “hold” within the 3 range, “sell” within the 4 range, and “strong sell” within the 5 range).

[bernie37] 08/1/2018 18:01

By Dave Simpson

Law360, New York (January 5, 2018, 9:39 PM EST) -- The Second Circuit rejected a petition for en banc review on Friday by Barclays PLC seeking to undo class certification for investors suing the bank over losses tied to the bank’s alleged misrepresentations about oversight of its dark pool market.

The one-page order also rejects a panel rehearing of the decision, offering no explanation or analysis.

In November, Barclays PLC asked the Second Circuit to partially rehear the decision granting class certification, saying the ruling is inconsistent with U.S. Supreme Court precedent.

[bernie37] 07/1/2018 20:00

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[bernie37] 07/1/2018 12:36

Its fair to say that Barclays has had a pretty horrible year. The stock is down around 11% since January and is still trading a good 14% lower than where it was 5 years ago. Any hopes of a meaningful sustained turnaround from this bank have been dashed time and time again through the year.

Furthermore, there isn’t even a high dividend yield to compensate investors for the disappointments. Barclays is the least loved of the UK banks right now, HSBC is seemingly going from strength to strength, optimism is returning to Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland has rallied over 25% through the course of the year. Global banking stocks (not just the UK) have rallied in 2017 and Barclays hasn’t.

Making matters worse, Goldman Sachs have confirmed their sell rating on the stock and have even included it on their “List of sell ideas for 2018”. Goldman’s highlighted Barclays lower margins on mortgages and increased competition on deposits, which were reflected in their third quarter results, as the reason for the bearishness. Furthermore, they see those same pressures remaining in 2018.

The there is the small matter of the dividend or perhaps better put, the matter of the small dividend. Barclays dividend yield is just 1.5% which compares poorly to Lloyds, which has a yield of 2.5% and HSBC, which has a yield of an inflation busting 5.4%. Adding to the dividend woes was Barclay’s weak performance in the Bank of England Stress test.

The stress test showed that Barclays had the lowest margin of error. There are some concerns that they may see increased pressure to increase capital, which could impact on the banks ability to raise its dividend. Finally, looking at the bank’s results, earning per share has fallen in three of the last 5 years.

This included a headline grabbing drop of 60% in 2013 and another heavy 22% drop last year as a slew of one-off adjustments, write-down and charges have played havoc with the banks profitability.

How: Barclays is trading down 11% on the year although, the price has picked up in recent weeks. The share price is up 4% this month, lifted in line with a broad rise in the FTSE 100 which could present a good entry point. Barclays continues to trade below its 200 sma confirming a bearish trend.

[johnwise] 06/1/2018 20:50

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[dbesim1] 05/1/2018 19:18

For years economists have been saying that stocks in the banking sector are undervalued. This includes BARC, RBS, HSBC and LLoyds. Rises in recent years have been slow but steady.

Why These Fundamentals Make Barclays PLC’s (LON:BARC) More Attractive

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[manics] 05/1/2018 17:11

Back on the 1 handle just as nature had ordained imo.