Visa - V Stock Forecast, Price & News

24 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Visa in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 19 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" V shares.
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24 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Visa's stock. Their V share price forecasts range from $204.00 to $310.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $249.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 20.2% from the stock's current price.
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Visa's stock was trading at $216.71 at the beginning of 2022. Since then, V stock has decreased by 4.4% and is now trading at $207.08.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 26th 2023.
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Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October, 25th. The credit-card processor reported $1.93 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.86 by $0.07. The credit-card processor had revenue of $7.79 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $7.55 billion. Visa had a net margin of 51.03% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 48.56%.

Visa declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, November 15th. Investors of record on Friday, December 16th will be given a dividend of $0.395 per share on Tuesday, January 3rd. This represents a $1.58 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.76%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, December 15th.
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Visa (NYSE:V) pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.84%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 13 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 25.75%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, V will have a dividend payout ratio of 18.93% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Shares of Visa split before market open on Thursday, March 19th 2015. The 4-1 split was announced on Thursday, January 29th 2015. The newly created shares were issued to shareholders after the market closes on Wednesday, March 18th 2015. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 400 shares after the split.

Visa announced that its board has approved a stock buyback plan on Tuesday, October 25th 2022, which permits the company to repurchase $12,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to buy up to 3.1% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are usually an indication that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

738 employees have rated Visa Chief Executive Officer Alfred F. Kelly, Jr. on Glassdoor.com. Alfred F. Kelly, Jr. has an approval rating of 94% among the company's employees. This puts Alfred F. Kelly, Jr. in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), PayPal (PYPL), Home Depot (HD), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Salesforce (CRM).

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

Visa's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (7.68%), State Street Corp (3.73%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (2.59%), Alliancebernstein L.P. (1.44%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.23%) and TCI Fund Management Ltd. (1.05%). Insiders that own company stock include Alfred F Kelly Jr, James H Hoffmeister, James H Hoffmeister, Lloyd Carney, Lynne Biggar, Rajat Taneja, Robert W Matschullat, Robert W Matschullat, Ryan Mcinerney and Tullier Kelly Mahon.
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One share of V stock can currently be purchased for approximately $207.08.

Visa (NYSE:V) has a market capitalization of $390.03 billion and generates $29.31 billion in revenue each year. The credit-card processor earns $14.96 billion in net income (profit) each year or $6.99 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 26,500 workers across the globe.

Visa's mailing address is P.O. BOX 8999, SAN FRANCISCO CA, 94128. The official website for the company is usa.visa.com. The credit-card processor can be reached via phone at (650) 432-3200 or via email at ir@visa.com.