Global Payments, Inc (GPN) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $104.13, with 3.99 million shares of worth about $415.1 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 0.36% during that period and on February 13, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -4.32%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 254.40M shares, out of which, 251.79M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -6.32% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -3.67%. Year-to-date (YTD), GPN shares are showing a performance of -7.08% which decreased to -24.41% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $91.60 but also hit the highest price of $141.77 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Global Payments, Inc shares is 1.68 million. The stock is currently trading -4.98% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -6.78% for SMA50 and it goes to -2.03% lower than SMA200.
Global Payments, Inc (NYSE: GPN) currently have 254.40M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 92.05% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $26.50B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.04. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 19.63, while it has posted earnings per share of $5.30 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.63 and has Quick Ratio of 0.93 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.77. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for GPN, volatility over the week remained 2.91% while standing at 1.92% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 9.48% while it is estimated to increase by 13.54% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 12.05% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 5.82% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Stephens on January 10, 2025 offering an Equal-weight rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $120 to it. Coverage by Goldman stated Global Payments, Inc (GPN) stock as a Neutral in their note to investors on January 10, 2025, suggesting a price target of $122 for the stock. Stock get a Buy rating from Monness Crespi & Hardt on September 25, 2024.
