Visa Inc. (V) Stock

About Visa Inc.

Visa Inc. functions globally as a leading technology company dedicated to payments. Its primary role is to enable the secure and efficient digital transfer of funds among a wide array of participants, including individual consumers, retail businesses, banking institutions, corporations, strategic partners, and governmental bodies. At the heart of its operations is VisaNet, a highly sophisticated transaction processing network that handles the critical functions of authorizing, clearing, and settling all payment transactions. In addition to this core infrastructure, the company also provides a variety of card products, innovative digital platforms, and an extensive range of supplementary value-added services. These offerings are distributed under several widely recognized brands, including Visa, Visa Electron, Interlink, VPAY, and PLUS. Demonstrating its commitment to enhancing user experience, Visa Inc. has established a key strategic partnership with Ooredoo in Qatar, focused on improving payment solutions for Visa cardholders and Ooredoo customers within the country. The company was established in 1958 and its corporate headquarters are situated in San Francisco, California.

Visa Inc. is led by CEO Ryan McInerney, employs 28,800 people, headquartered in San Francisco, US, publicly traded since 2008.

Visa Inc. (V) stock trades at $362.50 with a market capitalization of $676.80B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 27.79, price-to-book of 15.91, price-to-sales of 14.84. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $293.89 and $372.72, and currently trades 2.7% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 0.78%.

On profitability, Visa Inc. generates a return on equity (ROE) of 60.35% — well above the market average, a sign of a high-quality business, return on capital employed of 63.29%, an operating margin of 59.99%, a net profit margin of 51.68%.

In its most recent fiscal year, Visa Inc. reported annual revenue of $40.0B, net profit of $20.1B, revenue has compounded at 12.9% a year over the last five years, profit at 13.0% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.67, a current ratio of 1.08, total assets of $99.6B, $20.2B in cash and equivalents.

V has an average daily trading volume of 8,250,000 shares, a beta of 0.77 (less volatile than the overall market).

Official website: www.visa.ca