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We have scored 77 news catalysts on Barclays PLC (BCS) over the past 12 months. The biggest single-day move next to one of them came Feb 27, 2026, when BCS closed −4.0%: “Dow tumbles 500 points as growing AI anxiety, hot inflation rattle Wall Street”. Coverage across the window leans negative (average ticker sentiment −0.31). Most of the impact sits in institutional appeal and price momentum.
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Market cap
86.3B
P/E
—
EPS
—
Beta
0.88
52W range
19.29-28.69
Day range
25.36–25.73
Open
25.71
Prev close
25.44
Volume
2.1M
Avg volume
4.7M
Dividend
0.48
IPO
1986-09-09
Analysts publish price targets on BCS, and they disagree. Where the share price actually sits among them shows which of their arguments the market is buying — and which it is ignoring.
10 analyst price targets from $15 to $58
as of 2026-09-04
The market is within 3% of the median target — broadly agreeing with the analysts.
The reconstruction
Daily OHLCV with SMA overlays and session pivots. Draw your levels and trendlines on it, or ask the AI analyst what the price is reacting to.
Suppliers, customers, partners and competitors, derived from what the news actually says about Barclays PLC — not a sector bucket. Click an edge to see the articles that established the link.
Suppliers, customers, partners and competitors of Barclays PLC, taken from what the news actually said about them rather than from a sector bucket. The count is how many articles established each link.
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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.
The price sits at the 50th percentile of the published model spread ($15 to $58), broadly agreeing with the median target and fully paying for the base case of steady income growth while refusing to fund the bull case of a major re-rating or accept the bear case of a severe credit hit.
What the disagreement turns on
Whether the 600 million pound MFS exposure triggers a credit and litigation cascade that justifies the rejected bear targets, or whether the bank's raised income targets hold and close the gap to the rejected bull targets; the available wired data (consumer attention and unit volumes) cannot settle a bank-specific credit and legal question.
The price pays for
It declines to pay for
Written by a language model from the published models, the reported segments and a reverse-DCF — not a recommendation, and not a house view.
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