NYSE:GPN - Global Payments Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Global Payments announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, February 12th. Investors of record on Friday, March 13th will be given a dividend of $0.195 per share on Friday, March 27th. This represents a $0.78 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.38%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, March 12th. This is a positive change from Global Payments's previous quarterly dividend of $0.01. View Global Payments' Dividend History.

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 payable 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 Inc (NYSE:GPN) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, February, 12th. The business services provider reported $1.62 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.51 by $0.11. The business services provider earned $1.99 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.06 billion. Global Payments had a net margin of 8.77% and a return on equity of 7.25%. The firm's revenue was up 125.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm earned $1.33 EPS. View Global Payments' Earnings History.

Global Payments is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 7th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Global Payments.

Global Payments updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Wednesday, February, 12th. The company provided EPS guidance of $7.43 to $7.62 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $7.56. The company issued revenue guidance of $7.68 billion to $7.75 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $8.74 billion.

28 analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Global Payments' stock. Their forecasts range from $120.00 to $245.00. On average, they expect Global Payments' stock price to reach $211.01 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 2.3% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Global Payments.

28 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Global Payments in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 23 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Global Payments.

News coverage about GPN stock has trended somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. 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 news impact score of 1.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the business services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Global Payments.

Some companies that are related to Global Payments include Visa (V), Mastercard (MA), Fidelity National Information Servcs (FIS), Fiserv (FISV), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Worldpay (WP), Paychex (PAYX), FleetCor Technologies (FLT), Total System Services (TSS), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY), The Western Union (WU), WEX (WEX), Genpact (G) and Euronet Worldwide (EEFT).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Global Payments investors own include Alibaba Group (BABA), NVIDIA (NVDA), Visa (V), Mastercard (MA), Netflix (NFLX), Walt Disney (DIS), Broadcom (AVGO), salesforce.com (CRM), Adobe (ADBE) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).

Global Payments' stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (4.46%), State Street Corp (3.92%), Synovus Financial Corp (3.05%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (2.92%), Artisan Partners Limited Partnership (1.39%) and UBS Asset Management Americas Inc. (1.03%). Company insiders that own Global Payments stock include Alan M Silberstein, Cameron M Bready, David Lawrence Green, Guido Francesco Sacchi, Jeffrey Steven Sloan, 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 sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Point72 Asset Management L.P., Pictet Asset Management Ltd., Bank of America Corp DE, Maplelane Capital LLC, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Jupiter Asset Management Ltd., First Trust Advisors LP and Synovus Financial Corp. Company insiders that have sold Global Payments company stock in the last year include Alan M Silberstein, Cameron M Bready, Guido Francesco Sacchi, Jeffrey Steven Sloan, Kriss Cloninger III, Robert H B Baldwin Jr, Ruth Ann Marshall and William I Jacobs. View Insider Buying and Selling for Global Payments.

GPN stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Marshall Wace North America L.P., Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Connor Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd., State Street Corp, Teacher Retirement System of Texas, Samlyn Capital LLC, Schonfeld Strategic Advisors LLC and Credit Suisse AG. View Insider Buying and Selling 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 $206.37.

Global Payments has a market capitalization of $62.02 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 11,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Global Payments.

The official website for Global Payments is http://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]