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. Shareholders 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 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 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 plan on Friday, February 2nd 2018, which permits the company to repurchase $7,500,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are typically an indication that the company's leadership 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 Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.43 by $0.04. The credit-card processor earned $6.14 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $6.08 billion. Visa had a net margin of 52.57% and a return on equity of 42.57%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 12.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $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.

25 brokerages have issued 12 month price targets for Visa's stock. Their forecasts range from $181.00 to $250.00. On average, they anticipate Visa's share price to reach $210.92 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 2.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Visa.

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

News coverage about V stock has been trending somewhat positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Visa earned a news sentiment score of 1.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the credit-card processor a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future. 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 trading volume, of 7,570,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 4.2 days. Currently, 1.9% of the company's shares 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), Home Depot (HD), Boeing (BA), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), AT&T (T) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ).

Visa's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Johanson Financial Advisors Inc. (0.26%), New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.13%), Strs Ohio (0.08%), Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI (0.07%), Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.06%) and Close Asset Management Ltd (0.06%). 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., Columbus Circle Investors, Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, Baxter Bros Inc., Strs Ohio, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH 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 Johanson Financial Advisors Inc., PGGM Investments, Milestone Resources Group Ltd, Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, State of Michigan Retirement System, WealthBridge Investment Counsel Inc., Chapman Investment Management LLC and Close Asset Management Ltd. 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 $205.00.

Visa has a market capitalization of $403.71 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]