NYSE:V - Visa Stock Price, Forecast & News

Visa's stock was trading at $172.95 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, V stock has decreased by 6.6% and is now trading at $161.56. View which stocks have been mosted impacted by Coronavirus.

26 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Visa in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 24 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Visa.

Visa is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 22nd 2020. View our earnings forecast for Visa.

Visa Inc (NYSE:V) announced its earnings results on Thursday, January, 30th. The credit-card processor reported $1.46 earnings per share for the quarter, meeting the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.46. The credit-card processor earned $6.05 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $6.08 billion. Visa had a net margin of 52.60% and a return on equity of 43.15%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 10.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $1.30 earnings per share. View Visa's earnings history.

Visa declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, February 3rd. Stockholders of record on Friday, February 14th will be given a dividend of $0.30 per share on Tuesday, March 3rd. This represents a $1.20 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.74%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 13th. This is an increase from Visa's previous quarterly dividend of $0.25. View Visa's dividend history.

Visa's stock 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 payable 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.

26 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Visa's shares. Their forecasts range from $172.00 to $290.00. On average, they anticipate Visa's share price to reach $215.20 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 33.2% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Visa.

News articles about V stock have trended somewhat negative on Saturday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm scores the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Visa earned a media sentiment score of -1.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the credit-card processor a news buzz of 2.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is very unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future. View the latest news aboutVisa.

Visa saw a increase in short interest during the month of March. As of March 13th, there was short interest totaling 30,032,200 shares, an increase of 15.0% from the February 27th total of 26,120,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 9,590,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.1 days. Approximately 1.8% 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), Total System Services (TSS), Paychex (PAYX), FleetCor Technologies (FLT), Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), The Western Union (WU), Genpact (G), WEX (WEX), Euronet Worldwide (EEFT) and MAXIMUS (MMS).

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

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

Visa's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (4.46%), State Street Corp (3.94%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.39%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.34%), Capital World Investors (1.32%) and Capital International Investors (1.05%). Company insiders that own Visa stock include Alfred F Kelly Jr, Denise M Morrison, Ellen Richey, James H Hoffmeister, Lloyd Carney, Lynne Biggar, Rajat Taneja, 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 FMR LLC, Baillie Gifford & Co., Jennison Associates LLC, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Prudential Financial Inc., Capital World Investors, and Capital International Investors. Company insiders that have sold Visa company stock in the last year include Alfred F Kelly Jr, James H Hoffmeister, Lloyd Carney, Lynne Biggar, Rajat Taneja, Vasant M Prabhu, and William M Sheedy. View insider buying and selling activity for Visa.

V stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Norges Bank, Johanson Financial Advisors Inc., M&G Investment Management Ltd., Renaissance Technologies LLC, Investec Asset Management LTD, Loomis Sayles & Co. L P, Geode Capital Management LLC, and PGGM Investments. View insider buying and selling activity 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 $161.56.

Visa has a market capitalization of $317.06 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]