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

Shares of Visa split on the morning of Thursday, March 19th 2015. The 4-1 split was announced on Thursday, January 29th 2015. The newly minted shares were issued to shareholders after the closing bell 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 declared that its Board of Directors has approved a share 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 often a sign that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Visa Inc (NYSE:V) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October, 24th. The credit-card processor reported $1.47 earnings per share 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 return on equity of 42.57% and a net margin of 52.57%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 12.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $1.21 earnings per share. View Visa's Earnings History.

Visa is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 30th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Visa.

Visa will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, January 30th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

24 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Visa's stock. Their forecasts range from $181.00 to $233.00. On average, they anticipate Visa's share price to reach $206.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 0.6% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Visa.

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

News headlines about V stock have trended somewhat positive on Monday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Visa earned a media sentiment score of 1.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave press coverage about the credit-card processor a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Visa.

Visa saw a increase in short interest in December. As of December 13th, there was short interest totalling 32,040,000 shares, an increase of 11.3% from the November 28th total of 28,790,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 7,570,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 4.2 days. Currently, 1.9% of the company's stock 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), The Western Union (WU), Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY), 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 a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Johanson Financial Advisors Inc. (0.26%), Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI (0.07%), Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.06%), Calamos Advisors LLC (0.05%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.05%) and DNB Asset Management AS (0.04%). 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 Artemis Investment Management LLP, Tocqueville Asset Management L.P., Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, Baxter Bros Inc., Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, FNY Investment Advisers LLC and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. 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 acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Johanson Financial Advisors Inc., PGGM Investments, GPM Growth Investors Inc., Huntington National Bank, Washburn Capital Management Inc., UNIVEST FINANCIAL Corp, Diversified Trust Co and AE Wealth Management LLC. 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 $204.70.

Visa has a market capitalization of $403.12 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]