QualityDipStocks / Consumer Discretionary · Business Services
Global Payments GPN
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s at its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, trading well above our fair value estimate, 10% over its Market Value.
- Fair value est.
- $48.26−50%
- Market Value
- $88.17price +10%
- Off 52-wk high
- at the high
- Risk vs market
- Below marketbeta 0.84
4 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $96.84
- Fair value est.base case$48.26−50.2%
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$62.47−35.5%
- Market Valueavg paid since Aug 5$88.17−9.0%
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$96.84at the price
- PriceFri Oct 30 close$96.84you are here
Fair value estimate
How the range is computed
Ten-year free-cash-flow DCF. Same 10-year free-cash-flow model as the base: discount rate 9.5% ±1 point and growth 3.0% ±2 points. Bear = 10.5% and 1.0%; bull = 8.5% and 5.0% (both fade to 3%). A model estimate from public filings, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Price is above even the bull case.
What the price implies To be worth today’s price, GPN’s free cash flow would need to grow about 16% a year for five years; our estimate uses 3%.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 30 to Oct 30, 252 sessions). Beta = how much GPN moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Moves a bit less than the market, and its own price swings are 3.3× the S&P 500’s.
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 0.84
- Volatility
- 42% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.26
- Correlation QQQ
- 0.10
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 4 of 5
GrowthSales grew 32% to $10.2B over the last 12 months vs the 12 months before (SEC filings).
ProfitabilityOperating margin widened to 22.8% in FY2025 from 17.8% in FY2023 (SEC filings).
ProfitabilityGross margin of 64%, above the 39% median for the 120 Consumer Discretionary companies we cover.
ValuationPrice / book of 1.1×, below the 4.9× median for the 151 Consumer Discretionary companies we cover.
Top bearish points 5 of 5
ValuationOur DCF fair value estimate is $48.26, 50% below the price.
ProfitabilityLost $934M over the last 12 months (net income, SEC filings).
Balance sheetOperating income covers interest only 1.6× over the last 12 months.
Cash returnsShare count up 10.9% in a year: existing holders are being diluted.
QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: ROE under 12% and ROIC under 10%; net debt 4.7× EBITDA (limit 3×).
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on Global Payments in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 1, 9:09 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Business Services
All fundamentals
FCF yield 3.1% · ROE -4% · Sales +32%
Valuation
- P/E
- n/aloss over the last 12 months
- Price / FCF
- 31.8×
- FCF yield
- 3.1%
- EV / EBITDA
- 11.7×
- Price / sales
- 2.56×
- Price / book
- 1.13×
- Market cap
- $26.2Bprice × diluted shares
- Enterprise value
- $43.3B
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $10.2B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +32.2%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- −5.0%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- −$3.03
- EPS growth, last FY
- −6.2%
- Net income, 12 months
- −$934M
- Net income growth
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Profitability
- Gross margin
- 63.9%
- Operating margin
- 12.8%
- Net margin
- −9.2%
- FCF margin
- 8.1%
- Return on equity
- −4%
- Return on invested capital
- 2%
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $5.4B
- Total debt
- $22.5B
- Net cash
- −$17.1B
- Debt / equity
- 0.97×
- Interest coverage
- 1.6×operating income / interest
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $823M
- FCF growth, 12 months
- −67%
- Dividend yield
- 0.96%$252M paid
- Payout ratio
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Buybacks, 12 months
- $1.6B6.1% of market cap
- Share count, 1 year
- +10.9%diluted shares vs a year ago
- Stock-based comp
- $131M
Trailing 12 months to Jun 30, 2026; balance sheet at Jun 30, 2026. From Global Payments’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
Valuation details
DCF $48.26 · MV $88.17 · FCF value $87.45
Assumes 3.0% growth for 5 years (revenue grew -5.0% a year FY22–FY25; floored at 3%), fading to 3%; 9.5% discount rate, 3% terminal growth. FCF base $3.05 a share (trailing 12 months to Jun 30, 2026), from the 10-Q filed Aug 5, 2026. Net debt $17.1B, not deducted.
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 72 · 5 days +16.9%
The business
FCF $0.8B · Sales +69%
- Free cash flow, 12 months$0.8B
- Free-cash-flow yield3.6%
- Free-cash-flow margin8%
- Gross margin64%
- Operating margin10%
- Return on invested capital2%
- Return on equity−4%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+69%
- Net debt / EBITDA4.7×
Next report
Nov 5
- DateThu Nov 5, before the open
- Consensus EPS$3.57
- Year-ago EPS$3.26
- QuarterSep/2026
From Nasdaq’s earnings calendar. A report resets Market Value.
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.
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