Investec said Barclays results released early due to an apparent leak were slightly ahead of its forecasts, but shy of the wider market's hopes.Barclays said on Monday that adjusted pre-tax profit for 2013 was £5.2bn, down a quarter from 2012 and under the £5.4bn average forecast from analysts polled by the bank. Barclays also said statutory pre-tax profit was £2.9bn. The bank was due to release the figures on Tuesday, but is said to have felt that it needed to clarify the situation after a Financial Times report previewing the numbers was too close to the actual figures. It still plans to reveal the detail of the results on Tuesday.Investec had forecast adjusted PBT of £5.15bn and reported PBT of £2.8bn. It advised investors to buy the shares, saying Barclays remained its preferred UK domestic bank.The broker's analyst Ian Gordon said: "Even if there is a small miss against more frothy sell-side forecasts, we are reassured that the 2013 expected out-turn was marginally better than we thought."Shares rose 1.7% to 276.2p at 12:27 in London.PW