Global Payments Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:GPN)

26 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Global Payments in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 4 hold ratings and 20 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" GPN shares.
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26 brokers have issued 12 month price targets for Global Payments' stock. Their GPN share price targets range from $105.00 to $180.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $145.46 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 24.9% from the stock's current price.
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Global Payments' stock was trading at $99.32 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, GPN stock has increased by 17.2% and is now trading at $116.44.
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Global Payments saw a increase in short interest in November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,610,000 shares, an increase of 12.5% from the October 31st total of 3,210,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,600,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.3 days. Currently, 1.4% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, February 9th 2024.
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Global Payments Inc. (NYSE:GPN) posted its earnings results on Tuesday, October, 31st. The business services provider reported $2.75 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $2.55 by $0.20. The business services provider had revenue of $2.48 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.23 billion. Global Payments had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 11.28% and a net margin of 9.23%. The business's revenue was up 8.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $2.37 EPS.
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Global Payments declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, October 31st. Stockholders of record on Friday, December 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.25 per share on Friday, December 29th. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.86%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, December 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 0.87%. The dividend payout ratio is 29.94%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, GPN will have a dividend payout ratio of 8.98% 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), ETFMG Prime Mobile Payments ETF (IPAY), Janus Henderson Short Duration Income ETF (VNLA), Cultivar ETF (CVAR), Fidelity Crypto Industry and Digital Payments ETF (FDIG), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Financials ETF (RSPF) and Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Financials ETF (RYF).

Shares of Global Payments split on the morning of Tuesday, November 3rd 2015. The 2-1 split was announced on Wednesday, October 7th 2015. The newly created shares were issued to shareholders after the market closes 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 stock buyback plan on Monday, August 1st 2022, which allows the company to repurchase $1,500,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to repurchase up to 4.2% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are often an indication that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Global Payments updated its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Tuesday, October, 31st. The company provided EPS guidance of $10.39-$10.45 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $10.38. The company issued revenue guidance of $8.66 billion-$8.73 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $8.68 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 FMR LLC (3.59%), Synovus Financial Corp (3.14%), Boston Partners (1.98%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (1.35%), Morgan Stanley (1.31%) and Ameriprise Financial Inc. (1.26%). Insiders that own company stock include Connie D Mcdaniel, David Lawrence Green, David M Sheffield, Guido Francesco Sacchi, Jeffrey Steven Sloan, Joia M Johnson, Joshua J Whipple, Kriss Cloninger III, M Troy Woods, Paul M Todd, Robert H B Baldwin Jr and William I Jacobs.
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