Visa - V Stock Forecast, Price & News

20 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Visa in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 16 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" V shares.
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20 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Visa's shares. Their V share price forecasts range from $204.00 to $310.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $257.64 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 43.8% from the stock's current price.
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Visa's stock was trading at $216.71 on January 1st, 2022. Since then, V shares have decreased by 17.3% and is now trading at $179.18.
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Visa saw a increase in short interest in September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totaling 45,340,000 shares, an increase of 37.3% from the August 31st total of 33,030,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 5,890,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 7.7 days. Currently, 2.8% of the company's stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, October 25th 2022.
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Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) posted its earnings results on Tuesday, July, 26th. The credit-card processor reported $1.98 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.74 by $0.24. The credit-card processor had revenue of $7.28 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $7.06 billion. Visa had a net margin of 51.99% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 46.39%.

Visa announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, July 22nd. Stockholders of record on Friday, August 12th will be given a dividend of $0.375 per share on Thursday, September 1st. This represents a $1.50 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.84%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, August 11th.
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Visa (NYSE:V) pays an annual dividend of $1.50 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 22.12%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, V will have a dividend payout ratio of 17.90% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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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 stock prior to the split would have 400 shares after the split.

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 institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include State Street Corp (3.74%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (2.71%), FMR LLC (2.57%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.29%), Northern Trust Corp (0.99%) and Clearbridge Investments LLC (0.70%). 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, Tullier Kelly Mahon and William M Sheedy.
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One share of V stock can currently be purchased for approximately $179.18.

Visa (NYSE:V) has a market capitalization of $338.72 billion and generates $24.11 billion in revenue each year. The credit-card processor earns $12.31 billion in net income (profit) each year or $6.78 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 21,500 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.