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SP100NYSEVisa Inc.
Financial Services · Credit Services · United States
Visa Inc. operates as a payment technology company in the United States and internationally. The company operates VisaNet, a transaction processing network that enables authorization, clearing, and settlement of payment transactions. It also offers credit, debit, and prepaid card products; tap to pay, tokenization, and click to pay services; Visa Direct, a platform which facilitates money movement, enabling clients to collect, hold, convert, and send funds across its network; and issuing solutions, such as airport lounge access, dining reservations, shopping experiences, event tickets, and seller offers. In addition, the company provides acceptance solutions, an omnichannel payment integration with e-commerce platforms; risk detection and prevention solutions; and advisory and other services comprising consulting practice, proprietary analytics models, data scientists and economists, marketing services, and managed services. It provides its services under the Visa, Visa Electron, V PAY, Interlink, and PLUS brands. The company serves consumers, sellers, financial institutions, and government entities. Visa Inc. was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
www.visa.com ↗Shares trade at a premium 31.5× trailing earnings, easing to 24.4× on forward estimates. Profitability shows a net margin of 51.7% and return on equity of 60.3%. Leverage is modest at 0.3× net debt/EBITDA. Revenue grew 17.1% year-on-year. It yields 0.7% in dividends. The mean analyst target of USD398.70 sits 10.1% above the current price (Strong Buy, 37 analysts).
business model
Visa operates a global electronic payments network that authorizes, clears and settles card and digital transactions between financial institutions, merchants and cardholders. It is an open-loop network that does not lend or issue cards itself, earning fees on payment volume and transactions rather than taking credit risk.
revenue segments
Revenue is driven by service revenue (tied to payments volume), data processing revenue (transaction processing through VisaNet), international transaction revenue (cross-border activity), and other revenue (value-added services, licensing), partly offset by client incentives.
key dependencies
Depends on consumer and commercial payment volumes, the ongoing shift from cash to digital payments, cross-border travel and commerce, relationships with issuing and acquiring banks, and network reliability and security.
competitors
Competes with Mastercard most directly, plus American Express and Discover, domestic networks (e.g., China UnionPay, India's RuPay), and emerging real-time-payment and account-to-account and fintech alternatives.
moat
A powerful two-sided network effect between cardholders and merchants, enormous scale and global acceptance, high barriers to build a competing network, trusted brand, and strong recurring, capital-light economics with high margins.
risks
Regulatory and antitrust scrutiny over interchange fees and network rules, competition from real-time/account-to-account payments and fintechs, cross-border/travel cyclicality, litigation, and disintermediation risk from new payment rails.
Financials & metrics
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Full financial statements
Income statement
| Line item | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total revenue | $40.00B | $35.93B | $32.65B | $29.31B | — |
| Cost of revenue | $7.86B | $7.04B | $6.57B | $5.73B | — |
| Gross profit | $32.15B | $28.88B | $26.09B | $23.58B | — |
| Operating expense | $5.59B | $4.83B | $4.16B | $3.90B | — |
| Operating income | $26.56B | $24.06B | $21.93B | $19.68B | — |
| Interest expense | $589.00M | $641.00M | $644.00M | $538.00M | — |
| Pretax income | $24.19B | $23.92B | $21.04B | $18.14B | — |
| Tax provision | $4.14B | $4.17B | $3.76B | $3.18B | — |
| Net income | $20.06B | $19.74B | $17.27B | $14.96B | — |
| EBITDA | $26.00B | $25.59B | $22.62B | $19.54B | — |
| Diluted EPS | $10.20 | $9.73 | $8.28 | $7.00 | — |
Balance sheet
| Line item | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | $99.63B | $94.51B | $90.50B | $85.50B | — |
| Current assets | $37.77B | $34.03B | $33.53B | $30.20B | — |
| Cash & equivalents | $17.16B | $11.97B | $16.29B | $15.69B | — |
| Total liabilities | $61.72B | $55.37B | $51.77B | $49.92B | — |
| Current liabilities | $35.05B | $26.52B | $23.10B | $20.85B | — |
| Total debt | $25.17B | $20.84B | $20.46B | $22.45B | — |
| Long-term debt | $19.60B | $20.84B | $20.46B | $20.20B | — |
| Shareholders' equity | $37.91B | $39.14B | $38.73B | $35.58B | — |
| Retained earnings | $15.11B | $17.29B | $18.04B | $16.12B | — |
| Working capital | $2.72B | $7.52B | $10.43B | $9.35B | — |
Cash flow
| Line item | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | $23.06B | $19.95B | $20.75B | $18.85B | — |
| Investing cash flow | $708.00M | -$1.93B | -$2.01B | -$4.29B | — |
| Financing cash flow | -$18.96B | -$20.63B | -$17.77B | -$12.70B | — |
| Capital expenditure | -$1.48B | -$1.26B | -$1.06B | -$970.00M | — |
| Free cash flow | $21.58B | $18.69B | $19.70B | $17.88B | — |
| Dividends paid | -$4.63B | -$4.22B | -$3.75B | -$3.20B | -$2.80B |
| Share buybacks | -$18.32B | -$16.71B | -$12.10B | -$11.59B | — |
| End cash position | $24.99B | $19.76B | $21.99B | $20.38B | — |
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