profit from every $100 of sales.
$0$100
Barclays
$22.87+0.13% today
+2.8% in 1 year
1-year low $20.071-year high $28.56
Trading in the middle of its range for the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2022 to 2025.
0%20% a year
You pay $8.02 for every $1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
Not measured for banks and insurers: deposits and policy reserves count as debt, so the usual debt test says nothing about them.
Money in, money out
What Barclays sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from £25.0 billion in 2022 to £29.1 billion in 2025, with £7.17 billion of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Barclays handed back 50% of the cash it generated last year.
Buybacks £6.2B£2.3B
Free cash flow 2025£16.9B
Bought back its own shares£6.2B
Paid as dividends£2.3B
Cash vs. debt£229.8B vs. £219.9B
Barclays vs. similar companies
Barclays grows in the middle of these 5 and is the cheapest for its profits.
| Company | Profit from $100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per $1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barclays | 8.0× · Cheap | ||
 JPMorgan Chase | 16.1× · Fair price | ||
 China Construction Bank | 9.3× · Cheap | ||
 Industrial and Commercial Bank of China | 8.6× · Cheap | ||
 Agricultural Bank of China | 8.9× · Cheap |
Compare Barclays with i BBCA ID SDR 1to2 · Mastercard · Moody's · S&P Global · Visa
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Barclays's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25,021 | 25,384 | 26,230 | 29,140 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 5,928 | 5,259 | 6,307 | 7,172 | |
| 1.19 | 1.08 | 1.39 | 1.69 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 23.7% | 20.7% | 24.0% | 24.6% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 1,513,699 | 1,477,487 | 1,518,202 | 1,544,165 |
| Cash | 256,351 | 224,634 | 210,184 | 229,752 |
| Total debt | 183,366 | 176,551 | 185,746 | 219,941 |
| Total liabilities | 1,444,439 | 1,405,623 | 1,445,721 | 1,465,929 |
| 68,292 | 71,204 | 71,821 | 77,784 | |
| 4,217 | 3,974 | 3,818 | 3,651 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 8.7% | 7.4% | 8.8% | 9.2% |
Cash flow
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30,231 | -927 | 7,113 | 18,739 | |
| 1,746 | 1,718 | 1,574 | 1,859 | |
| 28,485 | -2,645 | 5,539 | 16,880 | |
| Dividends paid | 1,978 | 2,259 | 2,261 | 2,251 |
| 4,133 | 5,249 | 5,034 | 6,234 | |
| – | – | – | – |
This is a bank or insurer, so cash-flow and debt ratios are left out: borrowing and lending is the business itself. Price to book and return on equity are the measures that matter here.
Valuation
- 8.0×
- 10.7×
- 0.65
- 0.7×
- 2.0×
- 12.5%
- 3.9%
Profitability
- 24.6%
- 0.8%
- 2.5%
- 9.5%
- 0.4%
Growth
- +5.2%
- +12.4%
- +6.9%
- −4.7%
How it ranks in Financial Services
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Bottom 21%of 848
Top 45%of 728
Top 17%of 880
Bottom 38%of 878
Top 5%of 932
What analysts expect
- Average price target
- $44.00
- Range
- $44.00 – $44.00
- 1 analysts
These targets were collected on May 20, 2026 and our analyst feed has not updated since, so we no longer compare them with today's price.
Recent earnings
Our results feed has not updated since May 21, 2026. Results reported after that are not in this table yet.
| Date | EPS | Expected | Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 2026 | 0.76 | 0.75 | +1.3% |
| Feb 10, 2026 | 0.46 | 0.42 | +9.5% |
| Oct 22, 2025 | 0.56 | 0.54 | +3.7% |
| Jul 29, 2025 | 0.62 | 0.50 | +24.0% |
| Apr 30, 2025 | 0.65 | 0.61 | +6.6% |
| Feb 13, 2025 | 0.34 | 0.19 | +78.9% |
| Oct 24, 2024 | 0.56 | 0.56 | +0.4% |
| Aug 1, 2024 | 0.41 | 0.40 | +2.5% |
3.9%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$39a year at today's yield, before tax
+6.9%2020 to 2025
Raised4 yearsin a row, in our data
Paid per share, each year
$0.40 in 2015 → $0.44 in 2025
How safe it looks
31.4% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 13.3%
News
SPDR Barclays Short Term High Yield Bond ETF declares monthly distribution of $0.1463Seeking Alpha · Nov 2, 2026SPDR Nuveen Barclays Short Term Municipal Bond ETF declares monthly distribution of $0.1082Seeking Alpha · Nov 2, 2026SPDR Barclays Investment Grade Floating Rate ETF declares monthly distribution of $0.1150Seeking Alpha · Nov 2, 2026Barclays Says a SpaceX Merger Is Now "a Key Part" of the Tesla Bull Case. Here's Who Actually Wins if It Happens -- and Who Pays.Yahoo Finance · Nov 1, 2026Barclays sees major Tesla upside for retirement investorsYahoo Finance · Oct 29, 2026Insider trades
Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
6/7Passes 6 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Warren Buffett
70Pass
Benjamin Graham
71Pass
Philip Fisher
77Pass
Peter Lynch
61Pass
Joel Greenblatt
30No pass
Charlie Munger
61Pass
Terry Smith
60Pass
Questions about Barclays
Is Barclays a good stock to buy?
A strong, very profitable business, and the price looks low. 6 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the Barclays AI analysis
What does Barclays do?
Barclays PLC provides various financial services in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. It is in Banks - Diversified, based in London, United Kingdom, with 93,000 employees.
Does Barclays pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 3.9% a year, about 31% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out $2.25 billion in dividends.
Is Barclays stock halal?
No. Barclays does not pass our halal screen: its main business, banking, is not permitted. How we check
How has Barclays stock done over the past year?
Up 2.8% over the past twelve months, to $22.87. It traded between $20.07 and $28.56 and is 19.9% below its high.
Who are Barclays's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are JPMorgan Chase, China Construction Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and Agricultural Bank of China. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Barclays's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.