NYSE:VVisa Stock Price, Forecast & News

Visa's stock was trading at $172.95 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, V shares have decreased by 2.0% and is now trading at $169.44. View which stocks have been mosted impacted by Coronavirus.

27 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Visa in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 26 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Visa.

Visa is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 22nd 2020. View our earnings forecast for Visa.

Visa Inc (NYSE:V) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, January, 30th. The credit-card processor reported $1.46 earnings per share for the quarter, meeting the consensus estimate of $1.46. The credit-card processor had revenue of $6.05 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate 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 period in the prior year, the company earned $1.30 EPS. View Visa's earnings history.

Visa announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, February 3rd. Investors of record on Friday, February 14th will be paid a dividend of $0.30 per share on Tuesday, March 3rd. This represents a $1.20 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.71%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 13th. This is a boost from Visa's previous quarterly dividend of $0.25. 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 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.

27 equities research analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Visa's stock. Their forecasts range from $172.00 to $290.00. On average, they expect Visa's share price to reach $209.27 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 23.5% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Visa.

News articles about V stock have trended very negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Visa earned a media sentiment score of -3.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the credit-card processor a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days. View the latest news aboutVisa.

Visa saw a increase in short interest in the month of March. As of March 13th, there was short interest totaling 30,032,200 shares, an increase of 15.0% from the February 27th total of 26,120,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 9,590,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.1 days. Approximately 1.8% of the shares of the company 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), Total System Services (TSS), Paychex (PAYX), FleetCor Technologies (FLT), Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), The Western Union (WU), Genpact (G), WEX (WEX), Euronet Worldwide (EEFT) and MAXIMUS (MMS).

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), Boeing (BA), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Home Depot (HD), AT&T (T) and Johnson & Johnson (jnj).

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

Visa's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.02%), Burns J W & Co. Inc. NY (0.01%), Neville Rodie & Shaw Inc. (0.01%), Park National Corp OH (0.01%), Private Asset Management Inc. (0.01%) and Thomasville National Bank (0.01%). 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 Centre Asset Management LLC, M&R Capital Management Inc., Fulton Bank N.A., Nelson Van Denburg & Campbell Wealth Management Group LLC, Global Trust Asset Management LLC, Pensionfund DSM Netherlands, Chickasaw Capital Management LLC, and First National Bank of Mount Dora Trust Investment Services. 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, Vasant M Prabhu, and William M Sheedy. View insider buying and selling activity for Visa.

V stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Neville Rodie & Shaw Inc., Park National Corp OH, American National Bank, Trinity Legacy Partners LLC, TPG Financial Advisors LLC, Bath Savings Trust Co, and First Financial Bank Trust Division. View insider buying and selling activity 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 $169.44.

Visa has a market capitalization of $332.53 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]