Themes Management Co LLC Makes New $953,000 Investment in Barclays PLC $BCS

Themes Management Co LLC purchased a new position in shares of Barclays PLC (NYSE:BCS) during the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor purchased 37,448 shares of the financial services provider’s stock, valued at approximately $953,000.

Other hedge funds also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Ameriprise Financial Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Barclays by 793.5% during the third quarter. Ameriprise Financial Inc. now owns 4,777,017 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $99,073,000 after acquiring an additional 4,242,360 shares during the last quarter. Fisher Asset Management LLC raised its holdings in shares of Barclays by 4.3% during the fourth quarter. Fisher Asset Management LLC now owns 89,750,069 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $2,284,139,000 after acquiring an additional 3,722,757 shares during the last quarter. Main Street Research LLC acquired a new position in shares of Barclays during the third quarter valued at approximately $35,035,000. BNP Paribas Financial Markets raised its holdings in shares of Barclays by 7,013.1% during the second quarter. BNP Paribas Financial Markets now owns 1,671,369 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $31,071,000 after acquiring an additional 1,647,872 shares during the last quarter. Finally, American Century Companies Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Barclays by 39.2% during the third quarter. American Century Companies Inc. now owns 4,841,068 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $100,065,000 after acquiring an additional 1,362,247 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 3.39% of the company’s stock.

Barclays Stock Performance

Shares of Barclays stock opened at $23.84 on Tuesday. Barclays PLC has a one year low of $17.22 and a one year high of $27.70. The company has a market cap of $81.24 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 9.93, a PEG ratio of 0.44 and a beta of 1.01. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 5.94, a quick ratio of 1.44 and a current ratio of 1.44. The business’s 50 day moving average price is $22.53 and its 200 day moving average price is $23.76.

Barclays (NYSE:BCS) last posted its earnings results on Monday, April 27th. The financial services provider reported $0.76 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.75 by $0.01. The company had revenue of $5.07 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $10.88 billion. Barclays had a return on equity of 8.12% and a net margin of 21.10%. On average, research analysts predict that Barclays PLC will post 2.75 EPS for the current year.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of equities analysts have commented on BCS shares. Erste Group Bank reissued a “hold” rating on shares of Barclays in a report on Thursday, March 5th. Citigroup reissued a “neutral” rating on shares of Barclays in a report on Thursday, April 23rd. Weiss Ratings downgraded Barclays from a “buy (b)” rating to a “buy (b-)” rating in a research report on Tuesday, April 21st. BNP Paribas Exane downgraded Barclays from an “outperform” rating to a “neutral” rating in a research report on Tuesday, April 14th. Finally, Morgan Stanley reiterated an “overweight” rating on shares of Barclays in a research report on Wednesday, February 11th. Three analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and four have assigned a Hold rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of “Hold”.

About Barclays

Barclays PLC (NYSE: BCS) is a British multinational bank and financial services company headquartered in London. The firm provides a broad range of banking and financial products to individual, corporate and institutional customers. Its core activities span retail and business banking, credit cards and payments, corporate and investment banking, and wealth and investment management.

In retail and business banking, Barclays offers deposit accounts, mortgages, personal and business loans, and card services.