Visa Stock Forecast, Price & 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 increased by 16.8% and is now trading at $202.02.
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29 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Visa in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 25 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" Visa stock.
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6,978 employees have rated Visa CEO Larry J. Merlo on Glassdoor.com. Larry J. Merlo has an approval rating of 37% among Visa's employees. This puts Larry J. Merlo in the bottom 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Visa is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 28th 2021.
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Visa will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, January 28th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October, 28th. The credit-card processor reported $1.12 EPS for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.09 by $0.03. The credit-card processor earned $5.10 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $5.03 billion. Visa had a return on equity of 37.22% and a net margin of 49.74%.
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Visa announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, October 30th. Investors of record on Friday, November 13th will be paid a dividend of $0.32 per share on Tuesday, December 1st. This represents a $1.28 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.63%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, November 12th. This is a positive change from Visa's previous quarterly dividend of $0.30.
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Visa pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.62%. Visa has been increasing its dividend for 11 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio of Visa is 25.40%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, Visa will have a dividend payout ratio of 18.91% next year. This indicates that Visa will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Shares of Visa split on 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.

29 brokerages have issued 1 year price objectives for Visa's stock. Their forecasts range from $175.00 to $270.00. On average, they expect Visa's share price to reach $222.71 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 10.2% from the stock's current price.
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Some companies that are related to Visa include Mastercard (MA), Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), Fiserv (FISV), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Global Payments (GPN), Paychex (PAYX), FLEETCOR Technologies (FLT), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY), The Western Union (WU), WEX (WEX), Genpact (G), Euronet Worldwide (EEFT), CoreLogic (CLGX) and Maximus (MMS).
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Visa investors own include Mastercard (MA), NVIDIA (NVDA), The Walt Disney (DIS), Alibaba Group (BABA), Netflix (NFLX), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), PayPal (PYPL), The Home Depot (HD), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and salesforce.com (CRM).

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

Visa's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.05%), DNB Asset Management AS (0.04%), Welch & Forbes LLC (0.04%), Boston Trust Walden Corp (0.03%), Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Fiduciary Advisors LLP MA (0.03%) and Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.03%). 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.
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V stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Manning & Napier Group LLC, Avantax Advisory Services Inc., Cadinha & Co. LLC, Waverton Investment Management Ltd, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, Pacer Advisors Inc., Centre Asset Management LLC, and Consolidated Capital Management LLC. 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, and Ryan Mcinerney.
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V stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Metropolis Capital Ltd, Kestra Advisory Services LLC, Candriam Luxembourg S.C.A., Private Capital Advisors Inc., Liberty Capital Management Inc., DNB Asset Management AS, Bennett Selby Investments LP, and Peregrine Capital Management LLC.
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Shares of V can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of V stock can currently be purchased for approximately $202.02.

Visa has a market capitalization of $393.65 billion and generates $21.85 billion in revenue each year. The credit-card processor earns $10.87 billion in net income (profit) each year or $5.04 on an earnings per share basis. Visa employs 20,500 workers across the globe.

The official website for Visa is 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]