Global Payments, Inc (NYSE:GPN) currently has a daily average trading volume of 2.94M but it saw 6356863 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 17.69B USD, the company’s current market price of $72.06 came rising about 0.42 while comparing to the previous closing price of $71.76. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $127.66 and as low as $65.93. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $70.26 while lowest mark touched by it was $72.7.
Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Global Payments, Inc (GPN) gives us an average price of $84.90, while its current price level is -43.55% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 9.30% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $94.23 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $104.21. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 6.15% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 5.49%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 32.38 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.
TD Cowen downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Hold” from “Buy” on April 21, 2025 while assigning a price target of $78. Jefferies also issued its recommendations for the stock as it downgraded the price target for the stock is $75.
Over the week, GPN’s stock price is moving -14.34% down while it is -27.15% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -35.70% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -41.99%.
The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Feb-12, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 2.71 while estimate for next year EPS is 12.1. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $2.35B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $9.27B and seeing the company making $9.78B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $2.2B for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, Global Payments, Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 248.71M with 0.92% of that held by the insiders while 95.00% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 4.15% and return on equity (ROE) at 6.94%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 11.67 while having a 5.28 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.02. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.80 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.75. Its return on asset (ROA) is 3.22% on average.
