Barclays

Barclays's headquarter is based in London,. Barclays primarily operates in the banking sector. The global banks lost around 24 percent over the period 2006-2016. Over the past 5 years the sector is 6 percent higher.

The past year was a profitable year for the Barclays investors

Over the last 12 months, that were profitable period for the investors in Barclays, the stock gained around 3 percent. Over the past 5 years Barclays' stock rose at around 43 percent in value. Barclays's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were quite similar and moved between 26,83 billion GBp and 27,26 billion GBp. During 2011 and 2015 Barclays's net results were very volatile and fluctuated between 358,18 billion GBp and 129,19 billion GBp.

The English company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. Barclays's dividend return over the period 2011 - 2015 was around 31,04 percent per year. Barclays raised it's dividends per share each year in the past 5 years. Based on the raising dividend payments Barclays can be seen as a kind of dividend aristocrat.

Healthy financed: not so much debt Barclays

At the end of 2015 the English company's balance sheet was worth 112001 billion GBp. At the end of 2015 the total debt positon equaled 111941,19 billion GBp. This is around 99,95 percent of the total balance sheet. At the end of 2016 the English company was traded with a price/earnings-ratio of around 148. So investors paid 148 times the company's 2015's EPS. We could say that based on it's price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the English stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the bank's market capitalization (the number of shares times the market price) equaled around 3652,78 billion GBp. At the end of 2015 the English company had around 16,69 billion stocks listed on the stock exchange(s).

All Barclays's financial reports are located here. More information about Barclays can be found it's website. .