As a compound adjective, heavily-depressed modifies share price. Although many compound adjectives need a hyphen, those comprising an adverb ending in -ly never do.
Hence: … Barclays’ heavily depressed share price…
Source
‘Bailing out Barclays’, Sunday Times (Business), 2 November 2008, p. 5
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