On Friday, Global Payments, Inc (NYSE: GPN) was -0.35% drop from the session before settling in for the closing price of $119.38. A 52-week range for GPN has been $91.60 – $141.77.
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During the last 5-year period, the sales growth of Technology Sector giant was 24.95%. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 11.10%. With a float of $252.30 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $260.38 million.
Let’s determine the extent of company efficiency that accounts for 27000 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 62.79%, operating margin of 20.96%, and the pretax margin is 15.14%.
Global Payments, Inc (GPN) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Global Payments, Inc stocks. The insider ownership of Global Payments, Inc is 0.86%, while institutional ownership is 91.52%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 04 ’24, was worth 250,015. In this transaction Chief Human Resources Officer of this company sold 2,366 shares at a rate of $105.67, taking the stock ownership to the 22,078 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 04 ’24, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 2,366 for $105.67, making the entire transaction worth $250,006.
Global Payments, Inc (GPN) Recent Fiscal highlights
Going through the last 3-months fiscal report unveiled on the 9/30/2024, it has been observed that the corporation posted 2.65 earnings per share (EPS) during the time that was better than consensus figure (set at 2.64) by 0.01. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 2.88 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 11.10% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 11.25% during the next five years compared to 5.82% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Global Payments, Inc (NYSE: GPN) Trading Performance Indicators
You can see what Global Payments, Inc (GPN) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 0.93. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 3.01. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 10.44.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 5.30, a number that is poised to hit 2.97 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 12.85 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Global Payments, Inc (GPN)
Looking closely at Global Payments, Inc (NYSE: GPN), its last 5-days average volume was 1.77 million, which is a drop from its year-to-date volume of 2.28 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 89.61%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 2.41.
During the past 100 days, Global Payments, Inc’s (GPN) raw stochastic average was set at 96.28%, which indicates a significant increase from 86.98% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 19.65% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 33.37% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $106.40, while its 200-day Moving Average is $110.68. However, in the short run, Global Payments, Inc’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $119.75. Second resistance stands at $120.54. The third major resistance level sits at $121.08. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $118.42, it is likely to go to the next support level at $117.88. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $117.09.
Global Payments, Inc (NYSE: GPN) Key Stats
There are 254,495K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 30.17 billion. As of now, sales total 9,654 M while income totals 986,230 K. Its latest quarter income was 2,602 M while its last quarter net income were 315,130 K.
