Global Payments Stock Forecast, Price & News

29 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Global Payments in the last twelve months. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 25 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" Global Payments stock.
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Global Payments saw a increase in short interest in March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totaling 4,170,000 shares, an increase of 38.1% from the February 28th total of 3,020,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,900,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.2 days.
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Global Payments is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 4th 2021.
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Global Payments will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, May 4th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Global Payments Inc. (NYSE:GPN) issued its earnings results on Sunday, February, 7th. The business services provider reported $1.80 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.76 by $0.04. The business services provider earned $1.93 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.76 billion. Global Payments had a net margin of 6.75% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 6.46%. The business's quarterly revenue was down 2.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $1.62 EPS.
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Global Payments' stock was trading at $172.15 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, GPN stock has increased by 26.5% and is now trading at $217.80.
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Global Payments declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, February 8th. Stockholders of record on Friday, March 12th will be given a dividend of $0.195 per share on Friday, March 26th. This represents a $0.78 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.36%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, March 11th.
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Global Payments pays an annual dividend of $0.78 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.37%. Global Payments does not yet have a strock track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio of Global Payments is 13.31%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, Global Payments will have a dividend payout ratio of 10.16% next year. This indicates that Global Payments will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Global Payments's stock split on the morning of Tuesday, November 3rd 2015. The 2-1 split was announced on Wednesday, October 7th 2015. The newly issued shares were distributed to shareholders after the closing bell on Monday, November 2nd 2015. An investor that had 100 shares of Global Payments stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

Global Payments announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a share repurchase plan on Monday, February 8th 2021, which authorizes the company to buyback $1,500,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to reacquire up to 2.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are generally a sign that the company's board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

Global Payments updated its FY 2021 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Monday, February, 8th. The company provided EPS guidance of 7.75-8.05 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $8.00. The company issued revenue guidance of $7.5-7.6 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $7.58 billion.

29 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Global Payments' shares. Their forecasts range from $165.00 to $239.00. On average, they expect Global Payments' stock price to reach $211.21 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.0%.
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163 employees have rated Global Payments CEO Jeffrey S. Sloan on Glassdoor.com. Jeffrey S. Sloan has an approval rating of 69% among Global Payments' employees.

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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), The Boeing (BA), salesforce.com (CRM), Adobe (ADBE), The 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 a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Calamos Advisors LLC (0.04%), Royal London Asset Management Ltd. (0.04%), Retirement Systems of Alabama (0.04%), Vigilant Capital Management LLC (0.03%), CHURCHILL MANAGEMENT Corp (0.02%) and First American Bank (0.02%). Company insiders that own Global Payments stock include Alan M Silberstein, David M Sheffield, Guido Francesco Sacchi, 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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GPN stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Retirement Systems of Alabama, First Citizens Bank & Trust Co., State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Pacer Advisors Inc., Private Capital Group LLC, Carroll Financial Associates Inc., Thomasville National Bank, and Crossmark Global Holdings Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Global Payments company stock in the last year include Guido Francesco Sacchi, John Thompson Turner, M Troy Woods, Paul M Todd, Robert H B Baldwin Jr, Ruth Ann Marshall, and William I Jacobs.
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GPN stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Calamos Advisors LLC, DnB Asset Management AS, Everence Capital Management Inc., Harbour Capital Advisors LLC, First Hawaiian Bank, Vigilant Capital Management LLC, Royal London Asset Management Ltd., and First American Bank.
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One share of GPN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $217.80.

Global Payments has a market capitalization of $64.27 billion and generates $4.91 billion in revenue each year. The business services provider earns $430.61 million in net income (profit) each year or $5.86 on an earnings per share basis.

Global Payments employs 24,000 workers across the globe.

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Global Payments was founded in 2000.

The official website for Global Payments is www.globalpaymentsinc.com.

Global Payments is headquartered at 3550 LENOX ROAD, ATLANTA GA, 30326.

Global Payments' mailing address is 3550 LENOX ROAD, ATLANTA GA, 30326. The business services provider can be reached via phone at 770-829-8000 or via email at [email protected]