Visa Stock Forecast, Price & News

Visa's stock was trading at $172.95 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, V stock has increased by 22.0% and is now trading at $211.00.
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29 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Visa in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings and 24 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."
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Visa is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 4th 2021.
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Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, October, 28th. The credit-card processor reported $1.12 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the 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 net margin of 51.37% and a return on equity of 40.65%.
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Visa declared 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 0.61%. 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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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 issued shares were distributed 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.

29 analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Visa's stock. Their forecasts range from $175.00 to $250.00. On average, they expect Visa's share price to reach $218.43 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 3.5% from the stock's current price.
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Visa saw a decline in short interest in October. As of October 15th, there was short interest totaling 22,310,000 shares, a decline of 13.3% from the September 30th total of 25,730,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 7,740,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.9 days. Approximately 1.3% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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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 a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (6.56%), State Street Corp (3.89%), Morgan Stanley (1.75%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.30%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (1.11%) and Nuveen Asset Management LLC (0.77%). 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 CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, State Street Corp, Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Banco Santander S.A., Wells Fargo & Company MN, Magellan Asset Management Ltd, and Sands 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, Ryan Mcinerney, and William M Sheedy.
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V stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Great West Life Assurance Co. Can, TCI Fund Management Ltd., Egerton Capital UK LLP, Morgan Stanley, Jennison Associates LLC, BlackRock Inc., Stockbridge Partners LLC, and Jupiter Asset Management Ltd..
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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 Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of V stock can currently be purchased for approximately $211.00.

Visa has a market capitalization of $409.84 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.

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]