Global Payments (GPN) Stock Price, News & Analysis

27 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Global Payments in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 5 hold ratings and 21 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" GPN shares.
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27 brokerages have issued 12 month price targets for Global Payments' shares. Their GPN share price targets range from $105.00 to $186.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $150.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 37.1% from the stock's current price.
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Global Payments' stock was trading at $127.00 at the beginning of the year. Since then, GPN shares have decreased by 13.9% and is now trading at $109.41.
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Global Payments saw a increase in short interest during the month of April. As of April 15th, there was short interest totaling 7,510,000 shares, an increase of 11.9% from the March 31st total of 6,710,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,180,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.4 days. Approximately 2.9% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, August 6th 2024.
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Global Payments Inc. (NYSE:GPN) posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February, 14th. The business services provider reported $2.65 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $2.64 by $0.01. The business services provider earned $2.43 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.18 billion. Global Payments had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 11.72% and a net margin of 13.40%. The company's revenue was up 7.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $2.30 EPS.
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Global Payments announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, May 1st. Stockholders of record on Friday, June 14th will be paid a dividend of $0.25 per share on Friday, June 28th. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.91%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, June 14th.
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Global Payments (NYSE:GPN) pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.92%. The dividend payout ratio is 19.84%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, GPN will have a dividend payout ratio of 7.94% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Global Payments (NYSE:GPN) stock in their portfolio include BlackRock Future Financial and Technology ETF (BPAY), Global X FinTech Thematic ETF (FINX), Amplify Mobile Payments ETF (IPAY), Adaptive Core ETF (RULE), Fidelity Crypto Industry and Digital Payments ETF (FDIG), Harbor Dividend Growth Leaders ETF (GDIV), First Trust S-Network E-Commerce ETF (ISHP) and VanEck Morningstar SMID Moat ETF (SMOT).

Global Payments shares split before market open on Tuesday, November 3rd 2015. The 2-1 split was announced on Wednesday, October 7th 2015. The newly minted shares were issued to shareholders after the closing bell on Monday, November 2nd 2015. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

Global Payments announced that its board has approved a share repurchase program on Monday, August 1st 2022, which permits the company to repurchase $1,500,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to purchase up to 4.2% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are generally an indication that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

Global Payments issued an update on its FY 2024 earnings guidance on Wednesday, May, 1st. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 11.540-11.700 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 11.590. The company issued revenue guidance of $9.2 billion-$9.3 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $9.2 billion.

163 employees have rated Global Payments Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey S. Sloan on Glassdoor.com. Jeffrey S. Sloan has an approval rating of 69% among the company's employees.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Global Payments investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Mastercard (MA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Visa (V), Boeing (BA), Salesforce (CRM), Adobe (ADBE), Walt Disney (DIS), QUALCOMM (QCOM) and Intel (INTC).

Global Payments' stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (9.63%), Nordea Investment Management AB (1.10%), Pzena Investment Management LLC (0.86%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.69%), Coho Partners Ltd. (0.39%) and Westfield Capital Management Co. LP (0.34%). Insiders that own company stock include Andrea M Carter, Connie D Mcdaniel, David Lawrence Green, David M Sheffield, Jeffrey Steven Sloan, Joia M Johnson, Joshua J Whipple, Kriss Cloninger III, M Troy Woods, Robert H B Baldwin Jr and William I Jacobs.
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Shares of GPN stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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