NYSE:GPNGlobal Payments Stock Price, Forecast & News

Global Payments' stock was trading at $172.15 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, GPN stock has decreased by 1.5% and is now trading at $169.62. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

30 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Global Payments in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 2 hold ratings and 27 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Global Payments.

Global Payments is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, August 4th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Global Payments.

Global Payments Inc (NYSE:GPN) issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, May, 6th. The business services provider reported $1.58 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.53 by $0.05. The business services provider earned $1.90 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.74 billion. Global Payments had a net margin of 7.79% and a return on equity of 6.46%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 115.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the company earned $1.34 EPS. View Global Payments' earnings history.

Global Payments announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, May 6th. Investors of record on Friday, June 12th will be given a dividend of $0.195 per share on Friday, June 26th. This represents a $0.78 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.46%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, June 11th. View Global Payments' dividend history.

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 minted shares were issued 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.

30 equities research analysts have issued 1-year target prices for Global Payments' shares. Their forecasts range from $120.00 to $235.00. On average, they anticipate Global Payments' share price to reach $195.48 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 15.2% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Global Payments.

Media stories about GPN stock have trended very negative on Thursday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Global Payments earned a daily sentiment score of -3.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the business services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View the latest news about Global Payments.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Global Payments investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Mastercard (MA), Visa (V), salesforce.com (CRM), Adobe (ADBE), Walt Disney (DIS), Boeing (BA), Broadcom (AVGO) and Micron Technology (MU).

Global Payments trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "GPN."

Global Payments' stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Thomasville National Bank (0.01%). Company insiders that own Global Payments stock include Alan M Silberstein, Cameron M Bready, David Lawrence Green, David M Sheffield, Guido Francesco Sacchi, Jeffrey Steven Sloan, John Thompson Turner, Joia M Johnson, Kriss Cloninger III, Robert H B Baldwin Jr, Ruth Ann Marshall and William I Jacobs. View institutional ownership trends for Global Payments.

GPN stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Thomasville National Bank. View insider buying and selling activity for Global Payments.

Shares of GPN 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, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of GPN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $169.62.

Global Payments has a market capitalization of $50.73 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.

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

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]