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Barclays PLC

BARC#76 of 134 by buybacks

LSE · Financial Services · Banks - Diversified · UK

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Buybacks · FY2025£2.20B≈ $2.91B · reported in GBP
Buyback yield—repurchases ÷ market cap
Dividends · FY2025£2.25Bdividend yield —
Shareholder yield—buybacks + dividends ÷ market cap
Shares outstanding · 5 yr−19.5%13.7B shares (2026)
Buybacks ÷ free cash flow13%payout incl. dividends 26%
Buybacks and dividends by fiscal year
Cash returned to shareholders, in GBP. Fiscal years end in December.
Shares outstanding
Share count down 19.5% over roughly five years. Falling is what a real buyback looks like.
Quarterly repurchases
Last 8 reported quarters, in GBP. Orange bars mark quarters where the company issued more shares than it bought.

Fiscal-year detail

From the cash-flow statement as reported, in GBP. Negative repurchases mean net share issuance.

Fiscal yearRepurchasesDividendsFree cash flow
FY2025Dec 2025£2.20B£2.25B£16.9B
FY2024Dec 2024£1.75B£2.26B£5.54B
FY2023Dec 2023£1.25B£2.26B−£2.65B
FY2022Dec 2022£1.50B£1.98B£28.5B
FY2021Dec 2021£1.67B£1.36B£47.2B
FY2020Dec 2020£1.41B£936M£56.2B
FY2019Dec 2019£3.08B£1.91B−£14.1B

Repurchases in FY2025 were +25.7% versus the prior year.

About Barclays PLC

Barclays PLC provides various financial services in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. The company operates through Barclays UK; Barclays UK Corporate Bank; Barclays Private Bank and Wealth Management; Barclays Investment Bank; and Barclays US Consumer Bank segments. It offers financial services, such as current accounts, savings accounts, mortgages and unsecured lending, such as credit cards and loans retail banking, wholesale banking, investment banking, wealth management…

Market cap
GBX 57.3B
P/E (trailing)
9.0×
Fiscal year end
December
ISIN
GB0031348658
Reporting currency
GBP
Data updated
Oct 9, 2026
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