Visa - V Stock Forecast, Price & News

23 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Visa in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 19 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" V shares.
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23 brokerages have issued 1-year target prices for Visa's shares. Their V share price forecasts range from $204.00 to $310.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $248.14 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 16.1% from the stock's current price.
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Visa's stock was trading at $216.71 at the start of the year. Since then, V stock has decreased by 1.3% and is now trading at $213.79.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 26th 2023.
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Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) posted its earnings results on Tuesday, October, 26th. The credit-card processor reported $1.62 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.53 by $0.09. The credit-card processor had revenue of $6.56 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $6.51 billion. Visa had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 48.56% and a net margin of 51.03%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 28.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $1.12 earnings per share.
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Visa declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, November 15th. Stockholders of record on Friday, December 16th will be given a dividend of $0.395 per share on Tuesday, January 3rd. This represents a $1.58 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.74%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, December 15th.
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Visa (NYSE:V) pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.85%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 13 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 25.75%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, V will have a dividend payout ratio of 18.93% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Shares of Visa split on Thursday, March 19th 2015. The 4-1 split was announced on Thursday, January 29th 2015. The newly created shares were distributed to shareholders after the closing bell on Wednesday, March 18th 2015. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 400 shares after the split.

Visa announced that its board has approved a share buyback program on Tuesday, October 25th 2022, which permits the company to repurchase $12,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to buy up to 3.1% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are typically an indication that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

738 employees have rated Visa Chief Executive Officer Alfred F. Kelly, Jr. on Glassdoor.com. Alfred F. Kelly, Jr. has an approval rating of 94% among the company's employees. This puts Alfred F. Kelly, Jr. in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), PayPal (PYPL), Home Depot (HD), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Salesforce (CRM).

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 shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (7.68%), State Street Corp (3.73%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (2.59%), Alliancebernstein L.P. (1.44%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.23%) and TCI Fund Management Ltd. (1.05%). Insiders that own company stock include Alfred F Kelly Jr, James H Hoffmeister, James H Hoffmeister, Lloyd Carney, Lynne Biggar, Rajat Taneja, Robert W Matschullat, Robert W Matschullat, Ryan Mcinerney, Tullier Kelly Mahon and William M Sheedy.
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Shares of V stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of V stock can currently be purchased for approximately $213.79.

Visa (NYSE:V) has a market capitalization of $404.15 billion and generates $29.31 billion in revenue each year. The credit-card processor earns $14.96 billion in net income (profit) each year or $6.99 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 26,500 workers across the globe.

Visa's mailing address is P.O. BOX 8999, SAN FRANCISCO CA, 94128. The official website for the company is usa.visa.com. The credit-card processor can be reached via phone at (650) 432-3200 or via email at ir@visa.com.