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Barclays PLC

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No numeric condition can be drafted from the filed years we hold.

Named tests met2 of 30
23.15 USD Market data. Sources for Share priceClose of Nov 11, 2026

Market data as of Nov 11, 2026. Ratios computed Nov 11, 2026.

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NYSE / Financial Services / Banks - Diversified

Reading

The evidence behind it

Overview

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on equity

9.2% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

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Valuation

Price to earnings

8.04x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at 21:00 UTC

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Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

n/m Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at 21:00 UTC

Why n/m

For a bank, an insurer, a broker or investment firm, or a mortgage trust, operating cash flow swings with the size of the loan, trading and funding book rather than with operating performance, so free cash flow is not the measure of the business. Look at earnings and capital adequacy.

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Strength

Debt to equity

n/m Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Why n/m

A bank's deposits are its raw material, not borrowings. Debt to equity computed over a deposit-funded balance sheet says nothing about solvency. Use the equity to assets ratio instead.

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Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Net income: 2.08B GBPFY2017 Net income: -1.11B GBPFY2018 Net income: 2.35B GBPFY2019 Net income: 3.27B GBPFY2020 Net income: 2.38B GBPFY2021 Net income: 7.01B GBPFY2022 Net income: 5.93B GBPFY2023 Net income: 5.26B GBPFY2024 Net income: 6.31B GBPFY2025 Net income: 7.17B GBP
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Market capitalisation
76.95B USD Market data. Sources for Market capitalisation21:00 UTC
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Feb 10, 2026
Filed years
10, FY2016 to FY2025
The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 8.04x at the close of 2026-11-11 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits below the lowest.

Today, against the Financial Services sector (663 companies), 8.04x sits at the 11th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 11.38x to 24.39x.

Is it good

Return on equity was 9.2% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Ordinary" (8.0% to 15.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data.

Today, against the Financial Services sector (752 companies), 9.2% sits at the 49th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 3.6% to 13.7%.

Year by year against peers
Whether Barclays PLC's return on equity stayed above the median of the Financial Services sector, year by year. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 fiscal years of Barclays PLC with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Barclays PLC's return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Barclays PLC)
What could explain it
What in Barclays PLC's filed statements could explain the movements. (1 reading drawn from the statement lines Barclays PLC filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Barclays PLC, and where in its filings. (1 question for Barclays PLC)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Barclays PLC's returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (2 of sixteen figures read for Barclays PLC)

These are BCS’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 20-F, filed Feb 10, 2026, accession 0000312069-26-000004.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 26 figures could not be read on this company, among them Current Ratio, Debt to Equity, Positive Earnings Streak. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 22 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

And the one that is true of all of it: This is what the numbers say today. It cannot tell you the day one of them stops being true. Nothing here can, because the reasons are not written down.

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ValueScreener · valuescreener.ai · Computed from accounts filed with the SEC by this company, read from EDGAR, and from dated closing prices. On this page a filed figure opens into its formula, its inputs and the statement, fiscal year and filing date it was read from, and a price into the day of its close. A figure that cannot show that trail says so.

A computation on accounts filed with the SEC, not a recommendation and not advice. Past filings do not indicate future results. Risk disclaimer.

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