NYSE:V - Visa Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Visa declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, February 3rd. Investors 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 dividend yield of 0.67%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 13th. This is a positive change 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 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 Inc (NYSE:V) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, January, 30th. The credit-card processor reported $1.46 earnings per share for the quarter, hitting the 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 return on equity of 43.15% and a net margin of 52.60%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 10.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $1.30 EPS. View Visa's Earnings History.

Visa is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 22nd 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Visa.

26 brokerages have issued 12-month target prices for Visa's stock. Their forecasts range from $182.00 to $251.00. On average, they anticipate Visa's stock price to reach $219.12 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 21.7% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Visa.

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.

Media headlines about V stock have been trending somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Visa earned a news sentiment score of 1.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news articles about the credit-card processor a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating 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 drop in short interest during the month of February. As of February 14th, there was short interest totalling 25,280,000 shares, a drop of 17.7% from the January 30th total of 30,710,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 7,830,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.2 days. Currently, 1.5% of the shares of the 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), Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY), The Western Union (WU), WEX (WEX), Genpact (G) and Euronet Worldwide (EEFT).

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 variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors 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, 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., M&G Investment Management Ltd., Renaissance Technologies LLC, Investec Asset Management LTD, Loomis Sayles & Co. L P, Geode Capital Management LLC, PGGM Investments and Milestone Resources Group 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 $180.01.

Visa has a market capitalization of $353.27 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]