Currently, there are 248.71M common shares owned by the public and among those 243.57M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -16.55% and -36.33% over the past three months. GPN shares are trading -38.02% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -43.73% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $77.83 and touched a high of $127.66 over the same period. GPN has an average intraday trading volume of 2.45 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -23.26%, -28.63%, and -33.68% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Global Payments, Inc (NYSE: GPN) shares accounts for 94.05% of the company’s 248.71M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $17.08B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.97. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 11.25, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $6.17. The company has a PEG of 1.06 and a Quick Ratio of 0.97 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.77. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 4.87% over the week and 4.91% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Global Payments, Inc (GPN) will achieve an EPS of 2.72 for the current quarter, 3.08 for the next quarter and 13.71 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 2.63 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 2.63. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 2.59 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 5.02%, and 13.10% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of 10.66% over the next five years, compared to 23.30% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the GPN, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Keefe Bruyette stated their Mkt Perform rating for the stock in a research note on April 17, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $135-$78. Stephens coverage for the Global Payments, Inc (GPN) stock in a research note released on January 10, 2025 offered a Equal-Weight rating with a price target of $120. Goldman was of a view on January 10, 2025 that the stock is Neutral, while Bernstein gave the stock Mkt Perform rating on October 22, 2024, issuing a price target of $135- $112. Oppenheimer on their part issued Perform rating on October 01, 2024.
