A new trading day began on Friday, with Global Payments, Inc (NYSE: GPN) stock price down -5.10% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $111.39. GPN’s price has ranged from $91.60 to $141.77 over the past 52 weeks.
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Over the past five-year period, the growth rate of yearbook sales for the company of the Technology sector was 19.70%. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged 10.96%. With a float of $252.30 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $254.40 million.
Considering the fact that the conglomerate employs 27000 people, you should pay attention to its efficiency factor. 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
As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Software – Infrastructure Industry. The insider ownership of Global Payments, Inc is 0.86%, while institutional ownership is 91.70%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Dec 13 ’24, was worth 672,800. In this transaction Director of this company bought 5,800 shares at a rate of $116.00, taking the stock ownership to the 42,738 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 04 ’24, when Company’s Chief Human Resources Officer sold 2,366 for $105.67, making the entire transaction worth $250,015. This insider now owns 22,078 shares in total.
Global Payments, Inc (GPN) Recent Fiscal highlights
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 10.96% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 11.15% 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
Here are Global Payments, Inc’s current performance indicators. According to the last quarter’s results, the stock had a quick ratio of 0.93. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 2.68. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 9.31.
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 12.80 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Global Payments, Inc (GPN)
Compared to the last year’s volume of 1.27 million, its volume of 1.33 million showed improvement in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 23.34%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 2.64.
During the past 100 days, Global Payments, Inc’s (GPN) raw stochastic average was set at 40.43%, which indicates a significant increase from 6.60% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 25.14% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 29.51% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $113.28, while its 200-day Moving Average is $108.25. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $108.54 in the near term. At $111.37, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $113.12. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $103.96, it is likely to go to the next support level at $102.21. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $99.38.
Global Payments, Inc (NYSE: GPN) Key Stats
With a market capitalization of 26.90 billion, the company has a total of 254,495K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 9,654 M while annual income is 986,230 K. The company’s previous quarter sales were 2,602 M while its latest quarter income was 315,130 K.
