NYSE:FDC - First Data Stock Price, News, & Analysis

First Data trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "FDC."

First Data Corp (NYSE:FDC) announced its earnings results on Monday, July, 30th. The business services provider reported $0.39 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.37 by $0.02. The business services provider earned $2.23 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.20 billion. First Data had a return on equity of 21.88% and a net margin of 15.39%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 11.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the company posted $0.40 earnings per share. View First Data's Earnings History.

First Data is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, October, 29th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for First Data.

First Data updated its FY18 earnings guidance on Monday, July, 30th. The company provided EPS guidance of $1.42-1.47 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $1.46.

26 brokers have issued 1 year target prices for First Data's shares. Their forecasts range from $18.00 to $35.00. On average, they anticipate First Data's share price to reach $25.04 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.6%. View Analyst Price Targets for First Data.

26 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for First Data in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 24 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for First Data.

First Data saw a drop in short interest in July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 28,444,183 shares, a drop of 19.7% from the July 13th total of 35,428,599 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 6,235,062 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.6 days. Currently, 6.3% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View First Data's Current Options Chain.

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Media headlines about FDC stock have trended somewhat positive on Monday, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than 20 million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. First Data earned a daily sentiment score of 0.11 on Accern's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the business services provider an impact score of 45.59 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days. View Recent Headlines for First Data.

First Data's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (2.98%), FMR LLC (2.09%), Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (1.77%), Stone Point Capital LLC (1.65%), OppenheimerFunds Inc. (1.26%) and Sound Shore Management Inc. CT (1.25%). Company insiders that own First Data stock include Andrew Gelb, Anthony S Marino, Barry C Mccarthy, Christopher M Foskett, Cynthia A Armine-Klein, Frank Bisignano, Guy Chiarello, James E Nevels, Jeff Shanahan, Matthew Cagwin and Thomas Joseph Higgins. View Institutional Ownership Trends for First Data.

FDC stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Stone Point Capital LLC, Natixis, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Bank of America Corp DE, State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D and Point72 Asset Management L.P.. Company insiders that have sold First Data company stock in the last year include Andrew Gelb, Anthony S Marino, Barry C Mccarthy, Christopher M Foskett, Cynthia A Armine-Klein, Guy Chiarello, Jeff Shanahan and Thomas Joseph Higgins. View Insider Buying and Selling for First Data.

FDC stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including OppenheimerFunds Inc., Millennium Management LLC, Senator Investment Group LP, Argent Capital Management LLC, Worldquant Millennium Quantitative Strategies LLC, Morgan Stanley, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and MUFG Securities EMEA plc. Company insiders that have bought First Data stock in the last two years include Frank Bisignano, James E Nevels and Jeff Shanahan. View Insider Buying and Selling for First Data.

Shares of FDC can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of FDC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $25.18.

First Data has a market capitalization of $23.04 billion and generates $12.05 billion in revenue each year. The business services provider earns $1.47 billion in net income (profit) each year or $1.28 on an earnings per share basis. First Data employs 22,000 workers across the globe.

First Data's mailing address is 225 LIBERTY STREET 29 th FLOOR, NEW YORK NY, 10281. The business services provider can be reached via phone at 800-735-3362 or via email at [email protected]