NYSE:V - Visa Stock Price, Forecast & News

Visa trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "V."

Visa announced a dividend on Thursday, October 24th. Stockholders of record on Friday, November 15th will be given a dividend of $0.30 per share on Tuesday, December 3rd. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, November 14th. View Visa's Dividend History.

Visa shares split on Thursday, March 19th 2015. The 4-1 split was announced on Thursday, January 29th 2015. The newly minted shares were distributed to shareholders after the market closes on Wednesday, March 18th 2015. An investor that had 100 shares of Visa stock prior to the split would have 400 shares after the split.

Visa announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock repurchase program on Friday, February 2nd 2018, which permits the company to buyback $7,500,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are generally a sign that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

Visa Inc (NYSE:V) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October, 24th. The credit-card processor reported $1.47 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.43 by $0.04. The credit-card processor had revenue of $6.14 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $6.08 billion. Visa had a net margin of 52.57% and a return on equity of 42.57%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 12.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $1.21 EPS. View Visa's Earnings History.

Visa is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, January 29th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Visa.

23 equities research analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Visa's stock. Their forecasts range from $176.00 to $239.00. On average, they expect Visa's share price to reach $199.91 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 8.0% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Visa.

23 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Visa in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 22 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Visa.

News stories about V stock have trended somewhat negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group scores the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog 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. Visa earned a news sentiment score of -1.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave press coverage about the credit-card processor a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Visa.

Visa saw a decline in short interest in November. As of November 29th, there was short interest totalling 28,790,000 shares, a decline of 7.1% from the November 14th total of 30,990,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 7,680,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.7 days. Approximately 1.7% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Visa's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Visa include Mastercard (MA), Fidelity National Information Servcs (FIS), Fiserv (FISV), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Global Payments (GPN), 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), Euronet Worldwide (EEFT) and Genpact (G).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Visa investors own include Mastercard (MA), NVIDIA (NVDA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Walt Disney (DIS), Netflix (NFLX), Boeing (BA), Home Depot (HD), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), AT&T (T) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ).

Visa's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (3.90%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.36%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (1.02%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.36%), Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC (0.32%) and California Public Employees Retirement System (0.32%). Company insiders that own Visa stock include Alfred F Kelly Jr, Denise M Morrison, Ellen Richey, James H Hoffmeister, Lloyd Carney, Lynne Biggar, Ryan Mcinerney, Tullier Kelly Mahon, Vasant M Prabhu and William M Sheedy. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Visa.

V stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, C WorldWide Group Holding A S, State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, Windacre Partnership LLC, State Street Corp, Pictet Asset Management Ltd., Manning & Napier Group LLC and Waverton Investment Management Ltd. Company insiders that have sold Visa company stock in the last year include Alfred F Kelly Jr, Ellen Richey, James H Hoffmeister, Lloyd Carney, Lynne Biggar, Tullier Kelly Mahon, Vasant M Prabhu and William M Sheedy. View Insider Buying and Selling for Visa.

V stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including California Public Employees Retirement System, SG Americas Securities LLC, Fisher Asset Management LLC, Teacher Retirement System of Texas, Nan Shan Life Insurance Co. Ltd., KAMES CAPITAL plc, Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI and James Hambro & Partners. View Insider Buying and Selling for Visa.

Shares of V 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 V stock can currently be purchased for approximately $185.14.

Visa has a market capitalization of $364.60 billion and generates $22.98 billion in revenue each year. The credit-card processor earns $12.08 billion in net income (profit) each year or $5.44 on an earnings per share basis. Visa employs 19,500 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Visa.

The official website for Visa is http://usa.visa.com/.

Visa's mailing address is P.O. BOX 8999, SAN FRANCISCO CA, 94128. The credit-card processor can be reached via phone at 650-432-3200 or via email at [email protected]