Global Payments, Inc (NYSE: GPN) is -16.31% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $65.93 and a high of $120.00 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will make a comeback and enjoy potential growth. Why not look at analysts view on what the future holds for the stock. The GPN stock was last observed hovering at around $76.35 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -72.69%.
Currently trading at $3.66M, the stock is 2.86% and 1.77% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 4.4 million and changing 4397074% at the moment leaves the stock -20.24% off its SMA200. GPN registered -29.52% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -28.83%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $77.61 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $99.0263.
The stock witnessed a 4.31% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -20.23%, and is 2.80% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 1.67% over the week and 1.95% over the month.
Global Payments, Inc (GPN) has around 27000 employees, a market worth around $19.26B and $10.10B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 12.75 and Fwd P/E is 5.81. Profit margin for the company is 15.48%. Distance from 52-week low is 19.79% and -34.18% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (4.19%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 4.68% this year.
Global Payments, Inc (GPN) Top Institutional Holders
1234.0 institutions hold shares in Global Payments, Inc (GPN), with institutional investors hold 95.41% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 245.36M, and float is at 241.51M with Short Float at 4.93%. Institutions hold 94.50% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 24.2 million shares valued at $2.34 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 9.4994% of the GPN Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 17.75 million shares valued at $1.72 billion to account for 6.9675 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are STATE STREET CORP which holds 10.53 million shares representing 4.1352% and valued at over $1.02 billion, while BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/ holds 4.0872 of the shares totaling 10.41 million with a market value of $1.01 billion.
Global Payments, Inc (GPN) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by SHEFFIELD DAVID M, the company’s EVP, Chief Accounting Officer. SEC filings show that SHEFFIELD DAVID M sold 2,500 shares of the company’s common stock on May 08 ’25 at a price of $80.79 per share for a total of $0.2 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 20150.0 shares.
