NYSE:V - Visa Stock Price, Forecast & News

Visa's stock was trading at $172.95 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, V stock has decreased by 9.0% and is now trading at $157.39. 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) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, January, 30th. The credit-card processor reported $1.46 EPS for the quarter, meeting the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.46. The credit-card processor had revenue of $6.05 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $6.08 billion. Visa had a net margin of 52.60% and a return on equity of 43.15%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 10.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $1.30 EPS. View Visa's earnings history.

Visa declared 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 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.76%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 13th. This is a positive change 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 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.

27 brokers have issued 12 month price objectives for Visa's shares. Their forecasts range from $172.00 to $290.00. On average, they anticipate Visa's share price to reach $209.27 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 33.0% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Visa.

Media headlines about V stock have trended very negative this week, according to InfoTrie. The research group rates the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Visa earned a news 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, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future. View the latest news aboutVisa.

Visa saw a increase in short interest during 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 short-interest ratio is presently 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), Home Depot (HD), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), 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 a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Neville Rodie & Shaw Inc. (0.01%), Park National Corp OH (0.01%), Private Asset Management Inc. (0.01%), Thomasville National Bank (0.01%), M&R Capital Management Inc. (0.00%) and First Financial Bank Trust Division (0.00%). 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 M&R Capital Management Inc., Nelson Van Denburg & Campbell Wealth Management Group LLC, Thomasville National Bank, and Orrstown Financial Services Inc.. 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 purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Neville Rodie & Shaw Inc., Park National Corp OH, Bath Savings Trust Co, First Financial Bank Trust Division, Fulcrum Equity Management, and Private Asset Management Inc.. 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 $157.39.

Visa has a market capitalization of $308.88 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]