NYSE:GPNGlobal Payments Stock Price, Forecast & News

Global Payments' stock was trading at $172.15 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, GPN shares have increased by 0.5% and is now trading at $173.03.
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31 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Global Payments in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 28 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."
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Global Payments is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October 29th 2020.
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Global Payments Inc (NYSE:GPN) announced its quarterly earnings data on Monday, August, 3rd. The business services provider reported $1.31 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.04 by $0.27. The business services provider had revenue of $1.52 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.47 billion. Global Payments had a return on equity of 5.61% and a net margin of 5.68%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 71.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $1.51 EPS.
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Global Payments declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, August 3rd. Investors of record on Thursday, September 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.195 per share on Thursday, September 24th. This represents a $0.78 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.45%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, September 9th.
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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 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.

31 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Global Payments' shares. Their forecasts range from $164.00 to $235.00. On average, they anticipate Global Payments' share price to reach $201.97 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 16.7% from the stock's current price.
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Press coverage about GPN stock has been trending somewhat negative on Friday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Global Payments earned a news sentiment score of -1.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media headlines about the business services provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future.
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Global Payments saw a decrease in short interest in June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 3,670,000 shares, a decrease of 26.0% from the June 15th total of 4,960,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,990,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.8 days.
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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), salesforce.com (CRM), Mastercard (MA), Boeing (BA), Visa (V), Adobe (ADBE), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Intel (INTC) and Broadcom (AVGO).

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 Vanguard Group Inc. (8.14%), FMR LLC (3.03%), Synovus Financial Corp (2.91%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.84%), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (0.60%) and California Public Employees Retirement System (0.50%). 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.
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GPN stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Coatue Management LLC, Victory Capital Management Inc., Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., Marshall Wace North America L.P., Vanguard Group Inc., Strs Ohio, and NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V.. Company insiders that have sold Global Payments company stock in the last year include Alan M Silberstein, David M Sheffield, Guido Francesco Sacchi, John Thompson Turner, Kriss Cloninger III, 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 Ceredex Value Advisors LLC, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Holocene Advisors LP, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Alyeska Investment Group L.P., Nordea Investment Management AB, New York State Common Retirement Fund, and Rafferty Asset Management LLC.
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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 $173.03.

Global Payments has a market capitalization of $51.78 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]