NYSE:V - Visa Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Visa declared a dividend on Thursday, October 24th. Stockholders of record on Friday, November 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.30 per share on Tuesday, December 3rd. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, November 14th. View Visa's Dividend History.

Visa's stock split before market open on Thursday, March 19th 2015. The 4-1 split was announced on Thursday, January 29th 2015. The newly minted shares were distributed 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.

Visa declared that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock repurchase program on Friday, February 2nd 2018, which authorizes the company to buyback $7,500,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are often an indication that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Visa Inc (NYSE:V) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October, 24th. The credit-card processor reported $1.47 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.43 by $0.04. The credit-card processor earned $6.14 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $6.08 billion. Visa had a return on equity of 42.57% and a net margin of 52.57%. The firm's revenue was up 12.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $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 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year target prices for Visa's shares. Their forecasts range from $181.00 to $250.00. On average, they anticipate Visa's stock price to reach $207.83 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 0.3% 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.

Headlines about V stock have been trending somewhat negative on Wednesday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm scores the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Visa earned a media sentiment score of -1.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the credit-card processor a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Visa.

Visa saw a increase in short interest during the month of 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 trading volume of 7,570,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 4.2 days. Currently, 1.9% of the shares of the company are short sold. 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), Boeing (BA), Home Depot (HD), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), AT&T (T) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ).

Visa's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Johanson Financial Advisors Inc. (0.26%), Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI (0.07%), Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.06%), Calamos Advisors LLC (0.05%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.05%) and KAMES CAPITAL plc (0.05%). 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., Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, Baxter Bros Inc., Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, FNY Investment Advisers LLC and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. 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 acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Johanson Financial Advisors Inc., PGGM Investments, Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, GPM Growth Investors Inc., Huntington National Bank, Washburn Capital Management Inc., UNIVEST FINANCIAL Corp and Diversified Trust Co. 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 $207.29.

Visa has a market capitalization of $408.22 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]