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2 Major European Bank Stocks Have Thumped the S&P 500 Index This Year. They Still Trade at Less Than 65 Cents on the Dollar

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European banks have not fared well since the Great Recession , especially compared to their U.S. counterparts.

Barclays and Deutsche Bank have outperformed the S&P 500 this year .

The index fell nearly 20% from highs seen in late February , but then battled back once Trump announced a 90-day pause on implementing the higher tariffs.

Barclays has a nice dividend yield of roughly 2.7% .

The bank seems to be benefitting now from a strong performance in investment banking.

Management is still confident in its ability to surpass a 10% ROTE in 2025 .

Management has proposed spending 750 million euros ( $842 million ) on share repurchases, which, coupled with the dividend, brought total distributions to 2.1 billion euros in the quarter .

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