Kepler Capital Sticks to Its Buy Rating for Barclays (BARC)

Business Insider

4 hours ago

In a report released on June 19, Nicolas Payen from Kepler Capital maintained a Buy rating on Barclays (BARC – Research Report), with a price target of p405.00. The company's shares closed yesterday at p324.55.
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According to TipRanks, Payen is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 12.2% and a 64.10% success rate. Payen covers the Financial sector, focusing on stocks such as Barclays, UBS Group AG, and NatWest Group.
The word on The Street in general, suggests a Strong Buy analyst consensus rating for Barclays with a p380.00 average price target, representing a 17.09% upside. In a report released on June 17, J.P. Morgan also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a £4.20 price target.
Based on Barclays' latest earnings release for the quarter ending September 30, the company reported a quarterly revenue of p6.55 billion and a net profit of p1.56 billion. In comparison, last year the company earned a revenue of p6.26 billion and had a net profit of p1.53 billion
Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 126 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of BARC in relation to earlier this year.