Stock · GPN · Industrials
United States · Large Cap · listed since 2001 · Revenue 12 mo. $10.2B
Price as of 11/06/2026
Global Payments Inc. provides payment technology and software solutions for card, check, and digital-based payments in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific.
Global Payments Inc. provides payment technology and software solutions for card, check, and digital-based payments in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific. It offers authorization, settlement and funding, customer support, chargeback resolution, reconciliation and dispute management, terminal rental, sales and deployment, payment security, and consolidated billing and reporting services. The company also provides an array of enterprise software solutions that streamline business operations of its customers in various vertical markets; and value-added solutions and services, such as point-of-sale software, analytics and customer engagement, payroll and reporting, and human capital management. It markets its products and services through direct sales force, trade associations, agent and enterprise software providers, referral arrangements with value-added resellers, independent sales organizations, payment facilitators, and financial institutions. The company was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Summary
63.9 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €1.8B (2025), it supports €20.3B. The remaining €3.1B of the market value assume it grows 2.0% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
2.0%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 15.2×, above its usual range.
Middle half of 20 quarters: 7.8× to 13.3×, median 11.5×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
with respect to the priced-in expectation
Since the last quarter
Q1 → Q2 2026
2 more unchanged: Net debt, Return on equity
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 6.12% | 13.10% | Rank 12 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 22.14% | 19.33% | Rank 56 |
| EBIT margin | 19.10% | 11.28% | Rank 81 |
| FCF margin | 26.46% | 8.50% | Rank 95 |
| Gross margin | 72.57% | 28.98% | Rank 99 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | −23.75% | 5.15% | Rank 1 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | 143.34% | 8.01% | Rank 98 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | 24.55% | 12.89% | Rank 79 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 8.02% | 4.02% | Rank 78 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 5.99% | 4.42% | Rank 68 |
| FCF yield | 7.82% | 3.98% | Rank 84 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 5.14 | 2.08 | Rank 17 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 26.91 | 19.47 | Rank 25 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | 17.93% | −0.01% | Rank 78 |
| Share price, 6 months | 41.26% | −1.43% | Rank 99 |
| Share price, 3 months | 18.23% | 0.53% | Rank 94 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −2.24% | −16.36% | Rank 93 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | −2.14% | 1.39% | Rank 81 |
| Change in share countlower is better | −5.76% | −0.44% | Rank 94 |
| Dividend streak in years | 7 | 5 | Rank 75 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | 2.81% | 0.27% | Rank 73 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 42.91% | 39.65% | Rank 58 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | 3.93 | 1.38 | Rank 13 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 0.96 | 0.61 | Rank 32 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 41.92% | 32.95% | Rank 21 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | EBIT margin | FCF | Shares | Net debt, $B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 3.4 | 10.6% | $519.8M | 147M | 3.7 |
| 2017 | 4.0 | 14.4% | $330.5M | 156M | 4.0 |
| 2018 | 3.4 | 23.6% | $892.8M | 159M | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 4.9 | 21.3% | $1.1B | 199M | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 7.4 | 16.4% | $1.9B | 301M | 7.8 |
| 2021 | 8.5 | 20.6% | $2.3B | 294M | 10.1 |
| 2022 | 9.0 | 22.0% | $1.6B | 276M | 12.3 |
| 2023 | 9.7 | 22.9% | $1.6B | 262M | 15.3 |
| 2024 | 10.1 | 22.6% | $2.9B | 255M | 14.3 |
| 2025 | 7.7 | 19.1% | $2.0B | 240M | 13.5 |
4 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
Global Payments Inc mainly meets criteria in the Valuation category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
Global Payments Inc is rated here with the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
4 of 7 rules met
7 of 11 points
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Selected fundamental metrics for Global Payments Inc.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 16.7 | 22.5 |
| P/B ratio | 1.0 | 2.9 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 6.1% | 13.1% |
| Equity ratio | 42.9% | 39.7% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 0.96 | 0.61 |
| Dividend yield | 1.0% | 2.0% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| GPN | Global Payments Incthis page | |
| CPRT | Copart Inc | Low4.5 |
| RBA.TO | RB Global | locked |
| ULS | UL Solutions Inc. | locked |
| ARMK | Aramark Holdings | locked |
| CTAS | Cintas Corporation | locked |
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