NYSE:VVisa Stock Price, Forecast & News

Visa's stock was trading at $172.95 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, V stock has increased by 13.8% and is now trading at $196.87. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

28 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Visa in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 25 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 Tuesday, July 28th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Visa.

Visa Inc (NYSE:V) posted its earnings results on Thursday, April, 30th. The credit-card processor reported $1.39 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.35 by $0.04. The credit-card processor earned $5.85 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $5.75 billion. Visa had a net margin of 52.26% and a return on equity of 43.45%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 6.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $1.31 EPS. View Visa's earnings history.

Visa announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, April 22nd. Shareholders of record on Thursday, May 14th will be paid a dividend of $0.30 per share on Tuesday, June 2nd. This represents a $1.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.61%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, May 13th. 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 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.

28 brokers have issued 1 year target prices for Visa's shares. Their forecasts range from $175.00 to $250.00. On average, they anticipate Visa's stock price to reach $205.04 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 4.1% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Visa.

Media coverage about V stock has been trending very negative on Wednesday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm ranks the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Visa earned a daily sentiment score of -3.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the credit-card processor a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View the latest news aboutVisa.

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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), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Home Depot (HD) and salesforce.com (CRM).

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

Visa's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (6.29%), State Street Corp (3.97%), Morgan Stanley (1.62%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.41%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.38%) and Capital International Investors (1.13%). 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 Capital World Investors, Johanson Financial Advisors Inc., 1832 Asset Management L.P., Magellan Asset Management Ltd, Polen Capital Management LLC, BlackRock Inc., Mackenzie Financial Corp, and JPMorgan Chase & Co.. 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, 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 Advisor Group Holdings Inc., Lone Pine Capital LLC, Invesco Ltd., Swiss National Bank, Capital International Investors, Altshuler Shaham Ltd, Diamond Hill Capital Management Inc., and Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA. 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 $196.87.

Visa has a market capitalization of $382.62 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]