Global Payments, Inc (GPN) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $82.98, with 8.02 million shares of worth about $665.69 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -28.10% during that period and on May 15, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -0.22%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 245.36M shares, out of which, 240.59M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 4.29% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -2.86%. Year-to-date (YTD), GPN shares are showing a performance of -25.95% which decreased to -24.14% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $65.93 but also hit the highest price of $120.00 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Global Payments, Inc shares is 3.39 million. The stock is currently trading 7.99% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -4.29% for SMA50 and it goes to -19.18% lower than SMA200.
Global Payments, Inc (NYSE: GPN) currently have 245.36M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 92.32% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $20.24B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.97. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 13.40, while it has posted earnings per share of $6.19 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.32 and has Quick Ratio of 0.94 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.76. 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 1.79% while standing at 3.50% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 4.50% while it is estimated to increase by 12.73% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 10.14% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 23.30% 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 RBC Capital Mkts on April 25, 2025 offering a Sector perform rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $86 to it. On April 21, 2025, TD Cowen Downgrade their recommendations, while on April 21, 2025, Jefferies Downgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $75. Stock get a Mkt perform rating from Keefe Bruyette on April 17, 2025.
