Global Payments - GPN Stock Forecast, Price & News

20 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Global Payments in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 6 hold ratings and 13 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" GPN shares.
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20 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Global Payments' shares. Their GPN share price forecasts range from $115.00 to $210.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $149.31 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 50.6% from the stock's current price.
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Global Payments' stock was trading at $99.32 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, GPN shares have decreased by 0.2% and is now trading at $99.15.
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Global Payments saw a decline in short interest in March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,330,000 shares, a decline of 7.5% from the February 28th total of 3,600,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,790,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.9 days. Approximately 1.3% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, May 1st 2023.
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Global Payments Inc. (NYSE:GPN) posted its quarterly earnings data on Friday, February, 10th. The business services provider reported $2.42 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $2.34 by $0.08. The business services provider had revenue of $2.25 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.02 billion. Global Payments had a net margin of 1.24% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 10.30%. Global Payments's revenue was up 2.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $2.03 earnings per share.
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Global Payments announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, February 10th. Stockholders of record on Friday, March 17th will be paid a dividend of $0.25 per share on Friday, March 31st. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.01%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, March 16th.
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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), Fidelity Crypto Industry and Digital Payments ETF (FDIG), Cultivar ETF (CVAR), ALPS Disruptive Technologies ETF (DTEC), Inspire 100 ETF (BIBL) and Invesco BuyBack Achievers ETF (PKW).

Global Payments (NYSE:GPN) pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.02%. The dividend payout ratio is 227.28%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on earnings estimates, GPN will have a dividend payout ratio of 8.89% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Global Payments's stock split before market open on Tuesday, November 3rd 2015. The 2-1 split was announced on Wednesday, October 7th 2015. The newly issued 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 initiated a stock buyback plan on Monday, August 1st 2022, which permits the company to buyback $1,500,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to buy up to 4.2% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are typically a sign that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Global Payments updated its FY23 earnings guidance on Friday, February, 10th. The company provided EPS guidance of $10.25 to $10.37 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $10.38. The company issued revenue guidance of $8.575 billion to $8.675 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $8.47 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 trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "GPN."

Global Payments' stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (4.66%), Synovus Financial Corp (3.04%), Geode Capital Management LLC (2.04%), Franklin Resources Inc. (1.79%), Artisan Partners Limited Partnership (1.46%) and Boston Partners (1.26%). Insiders that own company stock include Connie D Mcdaniel, David Lawrence Green, David M Sheffield, Guido Francesco Sacchi, Jeffrey Steven Sloan, John Thompson Turner, Joia M Johnson, Kriss Cloninger III, M Troy Woods, Paul M Todd, Robert H B Baldwin Jr, Ruth Ann Marshall and William I Jacobs.
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One share of GPN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $99.15.

Global Payments (NYSE:GPN) has a market capitalization of $26.15 billion and generates $8.98 billion in revenue each year. The business services provider earns $111.49 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.44 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 25,000 workers across the globe.

Global Payments' mailing address is 3550 LENOX ROAD, ATLANTA GA, 30326. The official website for the company is www.globalpaymentsinc.com. The business services provider can be reached via phone at (770) 829-8000, via email at investor.relations@globalpay.com, or via fax at 770-829-8267.