Visa Stock Forecast, Price & News

Visa's stock was trading at $172.95 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, V stock has increased by 4.6% and is now trading at $180.87.
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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 Inc (NYSE:V) announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October, 28th. The credit-card processor reported $1.12 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.09 by $0.03. Visa had a net margin of 51.37% and a return on equity of 40.65%.
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Visa announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, July 22nd. Investors of record on Friday, August 14th will be paid a dividend of $0.30 per share on Tuesday, September 1st. This represents a $1.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.66%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, August 13th.
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Visa's stock split on Thursday, March 19th 2015. The 4-1 split was announced on Thursday, January 29th 2015. The newly issued shares were payable 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.

29 brokerages have issued twelve-month target prices for Visa's shares. Their forecasts range from $175.00 to $250.00. On average, they anticipate Visa's share price to reach $218.11 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 20.6% from the stock's current price.
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News coverage about V stock has been trending negative recently, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Visa earned a coverage optimism score of -2.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage 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 company's share price in the near term.
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Visa saw a decline in short interest in the month of 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 trading volume of 7,740,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.9 days. Currently, 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), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Fiserv (FISV), Global Payments (GPN), Paychex (PAYX), FleetCor Technologies (FLT), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY), The Western Union (WU), Genpact (G), Corelogic (CLGX), WEX (WEX), Euronet Worldwide (EEFT) 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), 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 Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. (0.11%), Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.09%), Standard Life Aberdeen plc (0.08%), M&G Investment Management Ltd. (0.08%), State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D (0.06%) and KBC Group NV (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, 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 M&G Investment Management Ltd., Standard Life Aberdeen plc, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Aptus Capital Advisors LLC, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, Jag Capital Management LLC, Ziegler Capital Management LLC, and State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D. 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 acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including DNB Asset Management AS, Verde Servicos Internacionais S.A., PGGM Investments, Avantax Advisory Services Inc., Milestone Resources Group Ltd, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Forsta AP Fonden, and Ferguson Wellman Capital Management Inc..
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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 $180.87.

Visa has a market capitalization of $351.32 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]