Global Payments - GPN Stock Forecast, Price & News

27 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Global Payments in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings and 22 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" GPN shares.
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27 Wall Street research analysts have issued 1-year target prices for Global Payments' shares. Their GPN share price forecasts range from $132.00 to $240.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $173.29 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 33.6% from the stock's current price.
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Global Payments' stock was trading at $135.18 at the beginning of the year. Since then, GPN shares have decreased by 4.0% and is now trading at $129.74.
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Global Payments saw a increase in short interest in the month of August. As of August 15th, there was short interest totaling 4,190,000 shares, an increase of 14.2% from the July 31st total of 3,670,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,650,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.5 days. Currently, 1.5% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, November 1st 2022.
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Global Payments Inc. (NYSE:GPN) issued its earnings results on Monday, August, 1st. The business services provider reported $2.36 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $2.34 by $0.02. The business services provider had revenue of $2.28 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.09 billion. Global Payments had a net margin of 0.87% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 9.24%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 6.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $1.92 EPS.
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Global Payments announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, August 1st. Shareholders of record on Friday, September 16th will be given a dividend of $0.25 per share on Friday, September 30th. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.77%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, September 15th.
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Global Payments (NYSE:GPN) pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.79%. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 555.59%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on earnings estimates, GPN will have a dividend payout ratio of 9.54% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Global Payments's stock split on Tuesday, November 3rd 2015. The 2-1 split was announced on Wednesday, October 7th 2015. The newly issued shares were issued to shareholders after the closing bell on Monday, November 2nd 2015. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

Global Payments announced that its board has approved a share buyback plan on Monday, August 1st 2022, which permits the company to repurchase $1,500,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to purchase up to 4.2% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are typically a sign that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Global Payments updated its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Tuesday, August, 9th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $9.53-$9.75 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $9.51. The company issued revenue guidance of $8.48 billion-$8.55 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $8.41 billion.

163 employees have rated Global Payments Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey S. Sloan on Glassdoor.com. Jeffrey S. Sloan has an approval rating of 69% among the company's employees.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Global Payments investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Mastercard (MA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Visa (V), Boeing (BA), Salesforce (CRM), Adobe (ADBE), Walt Disney (DIS), QUALCOMM (QCOM) and Intel (INTC).

Global Payments trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "GPN."

Global Payments' stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (5.83%), State Street Corp (3.89%), Synovus Financial Corp (2.96%), Franklin Resources Inc. (1.98%), FMR LLC (1.81%) and Artisan Partners Limited Partnership (1.41%). Insiders that own company stock include Alan M Silberstein, Connie D Mcdaniel, David Lawrence Green, David M Sheffield, Guido Francesco Sacchi, Jeffrey Steven Sloan, John Thompson Turner, Joia M Johnson, Kriss Cloninger III, M Troy Woods, Paul M Todd, Robert H B Baldwin Jr, Ruth Ann Marshall and William I Jacobs.
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One share of GPN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $129.74.

Global Payments (NYSE:GPN) has a market capitalization of $35.96 billion and generates $8.52 billion in revenue each year. The business services provider earns $965.46 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.18 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 25,000 workers across the globe.

Global Payments was founded in 1967.

Global Payments' mailing address is 3550 LENOX ROAD, ATLANTA GA, 30326. The official website for the company is www.globalpaymentsinc.com. The business services provider can be reached via phone at (770) 829-8000, via email at investor.relations@globalpay.com, or via fax at 770-829-8267.