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Buying Barclays (BCS)

  • November 20, 2007

There is a reason Barron’s started this article about British bank Barclays (BCS) with the sentence “it’s too early to pronounce Barclays’ stock cheap” and the reason is that no one really knows for sure just how many more subprime related write downs are going to occur as the banks “mark their portfolios to market”.

However given Barclays globally diversified structure, strong business units and a remarkable dividend yield of over 7%, I think that Barclays may be a buy at these levels. There is obviously the risk that the rest of the financial sector may drag the stock lower in coming weeks or that Barclays may find out that its mortgage portfolio is worth less than it estimated. Hence I am going to start a small position in both the InsideArbitrage model portfolio and my personal portfolio today and may add to it later based on how the stock and the sector behave.

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