Global Payments Inc.

GPN · Industrials

$82.20
-0.69% today

What a holder would want to know before buying GPN: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.

Where the price sits
Low $62.47 · Jun 2026High $94.83 · Aug 2026

Today’s price is 32% above the lowest point of the past year and 13% below the highest.

Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 74% of days and more expensive on 26%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 19% of days.

7% above its average price of the last 200 trading days.

How bad does it get

Fell 20% or more 3 times in 10 years. The deepest fall was 72%; the longest took 10 months to get back to its peak. 2 of 3 have recovered so far.

It is in one now: 63% below the Apr 2021 peak.

Apr 2021
−72%not back yet
Feb 2020
−44%back in 10 months
Sep 2018
−26%back in 5 months
What you own

Global Payments Inc. · Industrials · Specialty Business Services · a large company worth $21.75B

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,…

Is it making money?
2022
2023
2024
2025

revenue profit

Sales of $7.71B in 2025, with $1.40B of profit. Sales grew in 1 of the last 3 years.

Loses money on its sales at the moment.

Is it healthy?
Cash
$5.41B
Debt
$23.56B
Free cash flow / yr
$7.87B

Would need about 3 years of free cash flow to repay all its debt.

Is it expensive?

You pay $39 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $5 for every $1 of profit expected next year.

A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.

Pays 1.21% a year in dividends at today’s price · next ex-dividend Sep 11.

What others are doing

36 analysts: 15 say buy, 19 hold, 2 sell. Their average 12-month target is $104.94 (range $70.00–$194.00).

Insiders made 0 purchases and 0 sales in the last 6 months.

Free data from Yahoo Finance, refreshed daily. This is evidence about the business and its price history, not a recommendation.

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