Barclays Dividend yield

Barclays is part of Banks business, which is part of Financials industry. Barclays is a company from UK, and his stocks are publicly traded.

Barclays stock dividend

Barclays paid a total dividend of 1,244 million GBP last year, for a market value of 22,856 millions (Market Cap 22,821 millions). Barclays dividend per share is 0.08 GBP, and his stock market price 1.47 GBP.

According to the chart below, where dividend yield is displayed, Barclays has a dividend yield of 5.23%, which is higher than the amount offered by both the market average and companies from UK. It is also bigger than average of Financials industry. This high dividend yield might be a sign to worry about the future of the company so deeper analysis is needed.

In addition, you should compare Barclays stocks dividend with other Banks companies or other of the highest UK dividend stocks list.

Barclays Dividend Payout

About the ability of Barclays to maintain his current dividend of GBP 0.08 per share, an amount that accounts for 5.23%, we should study its payout ratio both on earnings and on cash-flows (see chart below). Barclays payout on ernings is currently 20.00%, which is lower than the market average and companies of Financials industry, which are 39.34% and 46.18% respectively. Both figures lead us to believe that there is confidence that Barclayscan maintain his current dividend.

The payout on earnings should be complemented with the payout on cash flow since it is this last amount the one which can be distributed to shareholders. Cash flow per share of Barclays is GBP 1.23 per share, which is higher than the dividend per share paid by the company of GBP 0.08, so the company generates enough cash to maintain his dividend in the future.

The following figure shows payout ratios over earnings and cashflow of Barclays, compared againt world market average, UK companies, Financials industry and Banks sector companies.

Barclays Dividend History

Below you will find a table with the historical evolution of Barclays's dividend stock, both in percentage and in GBP, its Payout on Earnings and the number of shares (in case there is an split, number shares altered the dividend per share).

Year	Yield	GBP	Paypout	Shares*
Present	5.23%	0.08	20.00%	15,548
2022	3.94%	0.06	12.77%	15,855
2021	1.60%	0.03	21.43%	16,791
2020	2.05%	0.03	15.79%	17,338
2019	3.90%	0.07	50.00%	17,241
2018	2.99%	0.05	0.00%	17,107
2017	1.48%	0.03	21.43%	17,030
2016	3.01%	0.07	0.00%	16,915
2015	2.91%	0.06	0.00%	16,747

*In millions

Then you can see the evolution of Barclays dividend stock, and compare it with the average of UK stocks and that of the Banks stocks.

Barclays Stock performance

Finally, last moth Barclays showed a return of -4.90% compared to a worldwide -2.49% average, and a -3.03% of Financials firms. Over the last year, the company obtained a -10.40% versus a worldwide performance of a 8.71%. More detailed information can be seen in the following graph for UK and Banks firms.