Global Payments (NYSE:GPN) Releases Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

Global Payments (NYSE:GPN) updated its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Thursday. The company provided EPS guidance of 2.690-2.690 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 2.710. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.2 billion-$2.2 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.2 billion. Global Payments also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 12.710-12.820 EPS.

Global Payments Stock Down 17.4 %

Shares of NYSE:GPN opened at $69.50 on Friday. The company has a market capitalization of $17.09 billion, a PE ratio of 11.25, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.86 and a beta of 0.97. Global Payments has a 1 year low of $68.48 and a 1 year high of $127.66. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.66, a current ratio of 0.97 and a quick ratio of 0.93. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $95.50 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $104.88.

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

Global Payments Dividend Announcement

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

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several equities research analysts have commented on the stock. Morgan Stanley dropped their price objective on shares of Global Payments from $166.00 to $163.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a report on Friday, February 14th. Stephens lowered Global Payments from an “overweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and cut their price target for the stock from $125.00 to $120.00 in a report on Friday, January 10th. Williams Trading set a $75.00 price objective on Global Payments in a research note on Friday. The Goldman Sachs Group restated a “neutral” rating and issued a $122.00 target price (down previously from $155.00) on shares of Global Payments in a research note on Thursday, January 9th. Finally, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods downgraded shares of Global Payments from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating and lowered their price target for the stock from $135.00 to $78.00 in a report on Thursday. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, fourteen have assigned a hold rating and twelve have issued a buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Global Payments has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $124.73.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Global Payments

An institutional investor recently bought a new position in Global Payments stock. Brighton Jones LLC bought a new position in Global Payments Inc. (NYSE:GPN) in the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The institutional investor bought 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.

About Global Payments

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.