Global Payments (NYSE:GPN) Updates FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

Global Payments (NYSE:GPN) issued an update on its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Thursday morning. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 12.710-12.820 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 12.200. The company issued revenue guidance of $9.6 billion-$9.7 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $9.3 billion. Global Payments also updated its Q1 2025 guidance to 2.690-2.690 EPS.

Global Payments Stock Performance

GPN opened at $69.50 on Friday. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $96.25 and a 200 day moving average price of $105.09. Global Payments has a 1 year low of $68.48 and a 1 year high of $127.66. The stock has a market cap of $17.09 billion, a P/E ratio of 11.25, a P/E/G ratio of 0.86 and a beta of 0.97. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.66, a current ratio of 0.97 and a quick ratio of 0.93.

Global Payments (NYSE:GPN) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 13th. The business services provider reported $2.84 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.98 by ($0.14). Global Payments had a return on equity of 12.21% and a net margin of 15.54%. The firm had revenue of $2.29 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.31 billion. Equities research analysts anticipate that Global Payments will post 11.89 earnings per share for the current year.

Global Payments Announces Dividend

The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, March 28th. Stockholders of record on Friday, March 14th were given a $0.25 dividend. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.44%. The ex-dividend date was Friday, March 14th. Global Payments’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 16.18%.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of brokerages have recently issued reports on GPN. Jefferies Financial Group lowered Global Payments from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Friday. Bank of America dropped their target price on shares of Global Payments from $156.00 to $149.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, February 14th. Keefe, Bruyette & Woods lowered shares of Global Payments from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating and decreased their price target for the company from $135.00 to $78.00 in a research note on Thursday. The Goldman Sachs Group reiterated a “neutral” rating and set a $122.00 price objective (down from $155.00) on shares of Global Payments in a research note on Thursday, January 9th. Finally, Stephens downgraded Global Payments from an “overweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and decreased their target price for the company from $125.00 to $120.00 in a research report on Friday, January 10th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, fourteen have assigned a hold rating and twelve have given a buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, Global Payments presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $124.73.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

An institutional investor recently bought a new position in Global Payments stock. Brighton Jones LLC purchased a new stake in Global Payments Inc. (NYSE:GPN) during the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The institutional investor purchased 6,466 shares of the business services provider’s stock, valued at approximately $725,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 89.76% of the company’s stock.

Global Payments Company Profile

Global Payments Inc provides payment technology and software solutions for card, check, and digital-based payments in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific. It operates through two segments, Merchant Solutions and Issuer Solutions. The Merchant Solutions segment offers authorization, settlement and funding, customer support, chargeback resolution, terminal rental, sales and deployment, payment security, and consolidated billing and reporting services.