Barclays Share Price Forecast 2024, 2025 and 2030

During the pandemic, Barclays’ share price collapsed to levels not seen since the financial recession. However, since then banking stocks have performed better as central banks around the world began to increase interest rates once again to stave off inflation. 

With Barclay's share price now up more than 150% from the pandemic lows, investors are now asking the question: ‘Are Barclays Shares a Good Buy?’  

In this ‘Barclays Share Price Forecast' article, we explore the latest news and factors affecting Barclays' share price and what the analysts are forecasting for the stock.

Barclays Share Price Forecast: Buy, Sell or Hold?

Most UK banking stocks had been trending lower even before the pandemic hit. Government regulation, loss of income through the closure of investment banking units and slow developments to compete with fintech banks have plagued the sector for years.  

However, in 2024 analysts are now forecasting a long-term period of growth for banking stocks due to the internal changes that have improved banks’ balance sheets. Investors are also bullish on the banking sector as a whole due to central banks starting to increase interest rates – an environment that has historically been good for banks as they can lend out at a higher interest rate thereby helping their margins to increase.  

Analysts have also started to turn bullish on banks. While you cannot solely rely on analyst ratings to make investment decisions – as they too can get it wrong – it does provide a good backdrop to help understand the sentiment regarding a company’s fundamentals.  

According to 11 analysts polled by TipRanks, there are currently 8 buy ratings on the stock, 3 hold and 0 sell. 

The Barclays share price forecast for the next 12 months has the highest price target at GBX 320.00p, the lowest price target at GBX 180.00p, providing an average price target of GBX 242.27p. At the time of writing this presents a near 48% uplift to the average price target for Barclays share price. 

Of course, a stock never moves in a straight line forever so there will be ups and downs that develop in the share price. As always, thorough research and risk management is prudent before making any decisions. Further below, we explore some of the factors affecting Barclays' share price. 

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Barclays Shares Buy or Sell Research

A common question among investors is ‘Should I buy Lloyds or Barclays shares?’ Let’s have a look at the fundamentals of Barclays. 

One reason many investors favour analysing Barclays' share price rather than other UK banks is that Barclays is a global bank that has multiple revenue streams. For example, Barclays not only operates as a high street bank but also as an investment banking and commercial banking division. 

This diversification has helped Barclays massively. Recent earnings report has shown that Barclays’ profits have surged higher as the investment banking division made nearly £1 billion in deal-making fees. This is largely thanks to a lot of deal-making and mergers and acquisitions in most stock sectors over the pandemic. 

While investment banking revenues are likely to dip at some point, the bank may receive a boost from its traditional banking services due to rising interest rates. Banks tend to perform well when interest rates rise as it can lead to bigger margins and profits on consumer and business lending. Barclays is well-positioned as a UK bank to capitalise on global trends with the Bank of England and US Federal Reserve continuing to raise rates in 2023 and beyond.

However, there are some major headwinds for UK banks. In the second half of 2023, analysts have been forecasting for banks to report declining balance sheets. The deposits consumers are putting into bank accounts are now falling faster than the loans being taken out. The cost of living crisis has had an effect on banking activity as well. 

Barclays Share Price Dividend

Bank shares tend to be popular among institutional pension fund managers who seek out income from shares in the form of dividend payouts. While some stocks pay out monthly dividends, most pay them out quarterly. Currently, the dividend amount for Barclays shares is GBX 5p annually. The last ex-dividend date was 23 February 2023 and Barclays has been increasing its dividend since February 2021. 

With a rising dividend amount since February 2021, this may attract more longer-term investors to Barclays shares. However, with Barclays' share price still down from its record high in 2007, the stock may attract more value investors than growth investors. 

Currently, the dividend yield for Barclays shares is 4.55% making it a top dividend stock to watch. 

Barclays Shares Investment Options

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How to Buy Barclays Shares in 4 Steps

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