Global Payments, Inc (NYSE: GPN) on Tuesday, plunged -0.39% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $103.84. Within the past 52 weeks, GPN’s price has moved between $91.60 and $140.38.
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During the last 5-year period, the sales growth of Technology Sector giant was 16.70%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 6.86%. With a float of $245.43 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $248.71 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 24.1%, and the pretax margin is 18.49%.
Global Payments, Inc (GPN) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock
Observing investor behavior towards Software – Infrastructure industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Global Payments, Inc is 0.88%, while institutional ownership is 92.42%. 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
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 3.1 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 6.86% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 11.00% during the next five years compared to 23.30% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Global Payments, Inc (NYSE: GPN) Trading Performance Indicators
Global Payments, Inc (GPN) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.97 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 2.53. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 8.96.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 6.17, a number that is poised to hit 2.74 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 14.00 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 2.17 million, which is a jump from its year-to-date volume of 1.79 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 12.70%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 2.40.
During the past 100 days, Global Payments, Inc’s (GPN) raw stochastic average was set at 30.17%, which indicates a significant increase from 9.30% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 26.83% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 26.30% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $110.02, while its 200-day Moving Average is $105.97. However, in the short run, Global Payments, Inc’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $104.94. Second resistance stands at $106.44. The third major resistance level sits at $107.33. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $102.55, it is likely to go to the next support level at $101.66. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $100.16.
Global Payments, Inc (NYSE: GPN) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 25.61 billion based on 247,616K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 10,106 M and income totals 1,570 M. The company made 2,515 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 567,170 K in sales during its previous quarter.
