NYSE:V - Visa Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Visa declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, February 3rd. Stockholders of record on Friday, February 14th will be given a dividend of $0.30 per share on Tuesday, March 3rd. This represents a $1.20 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.66%. 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 shares 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 issued 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 Inc (NYSE:V) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, January, 30th. The credit-card processor reported $1.46 EPS 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 analysts' expectations of $6.08 billion. Visa had a return on equity of 43.15% and a net margin of 52.60%. Visa's revenue for the quarter was up 10.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $1.30 earnings per share. View Visa's Earnings History.

Visa is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 22nd 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Visa.

26 analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Visa's shares. Their forecasts range from $182.00 to $251.00. On average, they expect Visa's stock price to reach $219.12 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 20.6% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Visa.

26 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Visa in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 24 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Visa.

Media headlines about V stock have been trending extremely negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group identifies negative and positive news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. 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 news impact score of -4.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the credit-card processor a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news 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 drop in short interest in the month of February. As of February 14th, there was short interest totalling 25,280,000 shares, a drop of 17.7% from the January 30th total of 30,710,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 7,830,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.2 days. Currently, 1.5% of the company's shares 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), Worldpay (WP), Paychex (PAYX), Total System Services (TSS), FleetCor Technologies (FLT), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY), The Western Union (WU), WEX (WEX), Genpact (G) and Euronet Worldwide (EEFT).

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

Visa's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (4.46%), State Street Corp (3.94%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.39%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.34%), Capital World Investors (1.32%) and Capital International Investors (1.05%). 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. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Visa.

V stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Baillie Gifford & Co., Jennison Associates LLC, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Prudential Financial Inc., Capital World Investors and Capital International Investors. 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, Tullier Kelly Mahon, Vasant M Prabhu and William M Sheedy. View Insider Buying and Selling for Visa.

V stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Johanson Financial Advisors Inc., M&G Investment Management Ltd., Renaissance Technologies LLC, Investec Asset Management LTD, Loomis Sayles & Co. L P, Geode Capital Management LLC, PGGM Investments and Milestone Resources Group Ltd. 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 $181.76.

Visa has a market capitalization of $356.71 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]