Polen Capital Management LLC Sells 964,882 Shares of Visa Inc. $V

Polen Capital Management LLC lessened its stake in Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) by 22.2% in the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 3,375,342 shares of the credit-card processor’s stock after selling 964,882 shares during the quarter. Visa makes up about 5.1% of Polen Capital Management LLC’s portfolio, making the stock its 8th biggest holding. Polen Capital Management LLC’s holdings in Visa were worth $1,183,766,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.

Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in V. Sepio Capital LP grew its position in shares of Visa by 7.6% in the fourth quarter. Sepio Capital LP now owns 31,823 shares of the credit-card processor’s stock valued at $11,161,000 after purchasing an additional 2,243 shares during the period. Meiji Yasuda America Inc purchased a new position in Visa in the 4th quarter valued at about $8,658,000. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. purchased a new position in Visa in the 4th quarter valued at about $213,000. Xponance LLC boosted its holdings in Visa by 4.3% in the 4th quarter. Xponance LLC now owns 440,361 shares of the credit-card processor’s stock worth $154,439,000 after buying an additional 18,190 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Parnassus Investments LLC increased its stake in Visa by 1.7% during the 4th quarter. Parnassus Investments LLC now owns 278,829 shares of the credit-card processor’s stock worth $97,788,000 after buying an additional 4,688 shares in the last quarter. 82.15% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several research firms have recently weighed in on V. Cantor Fitzgerald restated an “overweight” rating and issued a $400.00 target price on shares of Visa in a research report on Wednesday, April 29th. Citigroup reduced their price objective on Visa from $450.00 to $400.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Tuesday, April 14th. Morgan Stanley restated an “overweight” rating and issued a $415.00 price objective on shares of Visa in a report on Wednesday, April 29th. Bank of America began coverage on shares of Visa in a report on Thursday, March 5th. They set a “buy” rating and a $410.00 target price for the company. Finally, Truist Financial set a $371.00 price target on shares of Visa and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Tuesday, May 12th. Six research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, seventeen have assigned a Buy rating and two have issued a Hold rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Visa presently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $387.78.

Visa Stock Performance

NYSE:V opened at $319.21 on Friday. The company’s 50-day moving average is $318.23 and its two-hundred day moving average is $324.42. The firm has a market capitalization of $572.60 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 27.81, a PEG ratio of 1.73 and a beta of 0.77. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.64, a current ratio of 1.09 and a quick ratio of 1.09. Visa Inc. has a 1-year low of $293.89 and a 1-year high of $374.17.

Visa (NYSE:V) last released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, April 28th. The credit-card processor reported $3.31 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.10 by $0.21. The firm had revenue of $11.23 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $10.75 billion. Visa had a return on equity of 65.00% and a net margin of 51.68%.The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 17.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $2.76 earnings per share. Analysts forecast that Visa Inc. will post 13.09 EPS for the current year.

Visa Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Monday, June 1st. Investors of record on Tuesday, May 12th were given a dividend of $0.67 per share. This represents a $2.68 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.8%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Tuesday, May 12th. Visa’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 23.34%.

Visa declared that its Board of Directors has approved a share repurchase plan on Tuesday, April 28th that permits the company to buyback $20.00 billion in shares. This buyback authorization permits the credit-card processor to repurchase up to 3.6% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are often a sign that the company’s board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

Key Headlines Impacting Visa

Here are the key news stories impacting Visa this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Visa announced a major partnership with OpenAI to enable secure payments inside ChatGPT, potentially opening a new channel for AI-driven commerce and reinforcing Visa’s role in digital transactions.
• Positive Sentiment: Visa is expanding its AI, tokenization, and stablecoin capabilities, which may strengthen its competitive moat and support longer-term payment volume growth.
• Positive Sentiment: Several analyst-style articles highlighted Visa as a stock to watch, citing earnings growth, price strength, and innovation momentum.
• Neutral Sentiment: Mastercard also unveiled AI-related payment tools and stablecoin initiatives, underscoring rising competition in agentic commerce rather than creating an immediate negative for Visa.
• Neutral Sentiment: Visa remains in the spotlight for the recently approved $38 billion swipe-fee settlement, but the latest coverage suggests the legal overhang is becoming more settled rather than newly pressured.
• Negative Sentiment: Despite the upbeat product news, the stock has been trading lower, likely reflecting profit-taking and investor caution about whether these AI initiatives will translate into near-term revenue.

Insider Activity

In other news, CEO Ryan Mcinerney sold 31,455 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, April 29th. The shares were sold at an average price of $340.14, for a total value of $10,699,103.70. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer directly owned 15,174 shares in the company, valued at approximately $5,161,284.36. This represents a 67.46% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, CFO Chris Suh sold 10,639 shares of Visa stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, May 12th. The shares were sold at an average price of $324.81, for a total transaction of $3,455,653.59. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer owned 9,872 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $3,206,524.32. This trade represents a 51.87% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. 0.12% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

Visa Company Profile

Visa Inc is a global payments technology company that facilitates electronic funds transfers and digital commerce by connecting consumers, merchants, financial institutions and governments. The firm operates one of the world’s largest payment networks, providing processing, authorization, clearing and settlement services for credit, debit and prepaid card transactions. Visa’s network-based model enables partner banks and other issuers to offer branded payment products while Visa focuses on the infrastructure, standards and technologies that move money securely and efficiently around the world.

Visa’s product and service portfolio includes card-based payment products for consumers and businesses, real-time push-payment capabilities, tokenization and authentication services, fraud and risk-management tools, data analytics and APIs for fintech and merchant integration.