Visa (V) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

Visa Inc. is a global payments technology company that facilitates electronic funds transfers and digital commerce by connecting consumers, merchants, financial institutions and governments. The firm operates one of the world’s largest payment networks, providing processing, authorization, clearing and settlement services for credit, debit and prepaid card transactions. Visa’s network-based model enables partner banks and other issuers to offer branded payment products while Visa focuses on the infrastructure, standards and technologies that move money securely and efficiently around the world.

Visa’s product and service portfolio includes card-based payment products for consumers and businesses, real-time push-payment capabilities, tokenization and authentication services, fraud and risk-management tools, data analytics and APIs for fintech and merchant integration. Its processing backbone—commonly referred to as VisaNet—supports electronic payments, digital wallets, contactless transactions and cross-border payments, and the company works with a broad ecosystem of banks, acquirers, processors, merchants and technology providers to enable payments across physical and digital channels.

Tracing its origins to the BankAmericard program launched in 1958, the Visa brand emerged in the 1970s as a global payment association; Visa Inc. later became a publicly traded company and has continued to evolve its business toward digital payments and platform services. Headquartered in Foster City, California, Visa operates in more than 200 countries and territories and serves a diverse international client base. The company is led by a senior management team responsible for strategy and global operations and continues to invest in payment innovation, security and partnerships that support the migration from cash to electronic payments worldwide.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: $329.49 to $335.17
• 50-Day Range: $295.23 to $334.49
• 52-Week Range: $293.89 to $375.51
• Volume: 12.84 million shs
• Average Volume: 7.67 million shs
• Market Capitalization: $591.83 billion
• P/E Ratio: 28.74
• Dividend Yield: 0.81%
• Price Target: $387.67
• Consensus Rating: Buy

Visa Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

Visa scored higher than 98% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 14th out of 296 stocks in the business services sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 4.0 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Buy

Consensus Rating

Visa has received a consensus rating of Buy. The company's average rating score is 3.11, and is based on 6 strong buy ratings, 18 buy ratings, 3 hold ratings, and no sell ratings.

Upside Potential

Visa has a consensus price target of $387.67, representing about 17.5% upside from its current price of $329.93.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

Visa has been the subject of 11 research reports in the past 90 days, demonstrating strong analyst interest in this stock.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 2.5 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: 13.14%

Earnings Growth

Earnings for Visa are expected to grow by 13.14% in the coming year, from $13.09 to $14.81 per share.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of Visa is 28.74, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 38.66.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of Visa is 28.74, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Business Services sector average P/E ratio of about 29.22.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

Visa has a PEG Ratio of 1.74. PEG Ratios above 1 indicate that a company could be overvalued.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

Visa has a P/B Ratio of 16.17. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: 4.0 / 5
• Short Interest Level: Healthy

Percentage of Shares Shorted

1.29% of the float of Visa has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

Visa has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 2.9, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in Visa has recently decreased by 1.26%, indicating that investor sentiment is improving.

Dividend

• Score: 3.3 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Strong

Dividend Yield

Visa has a dividend yield of 0.82%, which is in the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.

Dividend Growth

Visa has been increasing its dividend for 17 years.

Dividend Coverage

The dividend payout ratio of Visa is 23.34%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.

Dividend Sustainability

Based on earnings estimates, Visa will have a dividend payout ratio of 18.10% next year. This indicates that Visa will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.

News and Social Media

• Score: 4.5 / 5
• News Sentiment: 1.21

News Sentiment

Visa has a news sentiment score of 1.21. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a higher news sentiment than the 0.41 average news sentiment score of Business Services companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 79 news articles for Visa this week, compared to 12 articles on an average week.

Search Interest

150 people have searched for V on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 40% compared to the previous 30 days.

MarketBeat Follows

78 people have added Visa to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 56% compared to the previous 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 1.4 / 5
• Insider Trading: Selling Shares

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, Visa insiders have sold more of their company's stock than they have bought. Specifically, they have bought $0.00 in company stock and sold $14,356,010.00 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

0.12% of the stock of Visa is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

82.15% of the stock of Visa is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

Company Calendar

• Record date for 3/2 Dividend: 2/10/2026
• Ex-Dividend for 3/2 Dividend: 2/10/2026
• Dividend Payable: 3/02/2026
• Last Earnings: 4/28/2026
• Record date for 6/1 Dividend: 5/12/2026
• Ex-Dividend for 6/1 Dividend: 5/12/2026
• Today: 5/19/2026
• J.P. Morgan 54th Annual Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference: 5/19/2026
• Bernstein 42nd Annual Strategic Decisions Conference: 5/28/2026
• Dividend Payable: 6/01/2026
• 2026 Baird Global Consumer, Technology & Services Conference: 6/03/2026
• Next Earnings (Estimated): 7/28/2026
• Fiscal Year End: 9/30/2026

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: NYSE
• Sector: Business Services
• Industry: Financial Transaction Services
• Sub-Industry: Data Processing & Outsourced Services
• Current Symbol: NYSE:V
• CIK: 1403161
• Web: usa.visa.com
• Phone: (650) 432-3200
• Fax: N/A
• Employees: 34,100
• Year Founded: 1958

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for Visa: $387.67
• High Price Target: $425.00
• Low Price Target: $160.00
• Potential Upside/Downside: +17.5%
• Consensus Rating: Buy
• Rating Score (0-4): 3.11
• Research Coverage: 27 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): $11.48
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 28.74
• Forward P/E Ratio: 25.21
• P/E Growth: 1.74
• Net Income: $20.06 billion
• Net Margins: 51.68%
• Pretax Margin: 61.49%
• Return on Equity: 65.00%
• Return on Assets: 24.62%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 0.64
• Current Ratio: 1.09
• Quick Ratio: 1.09

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: $40 billion
• Price / Sales: 14.80
• Cash Flow: $13.21 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 24.97
• Book Value: $20.40 per share
• Price / Book: 16.17

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 1,793,770,000
• Free Float: 1,791,612,000
• Market Cap: $591.83 billion
• Optionable: Optionable
• Beta: 0.78