BCS Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Barclays PLC | NYSE:BCS)

Barclays is a universal bank headquartered in the United Kingdom. It operates via five principal segments; UK (retail), UK corporate bank, private bank and wealth management, investment bank, and us consumer bank. In its UK segment, the bank provides current accounts, mortgages, savings and investment management services, credit cards, and business banking services to retail clients and small and medium-size enterprises. The international segment includes a corporate bank offering banking solutions to large corporates, a bulge-bracket global investment bank, and a credit card and payments business.

Barclays PLC trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol BCS.

As of March 6, 2025, BCS stock price declined to $16.02 with 18,206,151 million shares trading.

BCS has a beta of 1.13, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. BCS has a correlation of 0.26 to the broad based SPY ETF.

BCS has a market cap of $57.51 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Barclays PLC reported $9 billion in Revenue and $.34 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $2 billion and exceeded earnings estimates by $.15.

In the last 3 years, BCS traded as high as $16.33 and as low as $5.89.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that BCS belongs to (by Net Assets): DFIV, AVDE, IDVO, DFAX, APIE.

BCS has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +88.6% while the SPY ETF gained +14.3%. BCS has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +19.8% and +6.0%, respectively, while the SPY returned -5.3% and -6.6%, respectively.

BCS support price is $15.88 and resistance is $16.60 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that BCS shares will trade within this expected range on the day.