Wealth Care LLC Makes New Investment in Visa Inc. $V

Wealth Care LLC purchased a new stake in Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) in the first quarter, according to its most recent filing with the SEC. The fund purchased 1,444 shares of the credit-card processor’s stock, valued at approximately $437,000.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in V. Clayton Financial Group LLC lifted its position in shares of Visa by 446.2% in the 4th quarter. Clayton Financial Group LLC now owns 71 shares of the credit-card processor’s stock worth $25,000 after buying an additional 58 shares during the last quarter. PayPay Securities Corp grew its position in shares of Visa by 102.7% during the 4th quarter. PayPay Securities Corp now owns 75 shares of the credit-card processor’s stock valued at $26,000 after buying an additional 38 shares during the last quarter. Cresta Advisors Ltd. bought a new stake in shares of Visa during the 4th quarter valued at about $26,000. Parvin Asset Management LLC raised its stake in Visa by 200.0% during the third quarter. Parvin Asset Management LLC now owns 75 shares of the credit-card processor’s stock worth $26,000 after acquiring an additional 50 shares during the period. Finally, Dorato Capital Management bought a new position in Visa in the fourth quarter worth about $30,000. 82.15% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Insider Transactions at Visa

In related news, CFO Chris Suh sold 10,639 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, May 12th. The shares were sold at an average price of $324.81, for a total value of $3,455,653.59. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer owned 9,872 shares in the company, valued at $3,206,524.32. This represents a 51.87% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, CEO Ryan Mcinerney sold 20,970 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, June 29th. The shares were sold at an average price of $340.25, for a total transaction of $7,135,042.50. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer directly owned 15,174 shares in the company, valued at approximately $5,162,953.50. The trade was a 58.02% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Over the last 90 days, insiders have sold 63,064 shares of company stock worth $21,289,800. Company insiders own 0.12% of the company’s stock.

Visa Stock Performance

Shares of V stock opened at $351.36 on Thursday. Visa Inc. has a 12-month low of $293.89 and a 12-month high of $359.66. The firm has a market capitalization of $630.26 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 30.61, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.83 and a beta of 0.75. The business has a 50 day simple moving average of $325.14 and a 200 day simple moving average of $324.55. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.64, a current ratio of 1.09 and a quick ratio of 1.09.

Visa (NYSE:V) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, April 28th. The credit-card processor reported $3.31 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.10 by $0.21. Visa had a return on equity of 65.00% and a net margin of 51.68%.The firm had revenue of $11.23 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $10.75 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $2.76 EPS. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 17.1% on a year-over-year basis. On average, equities research analysts anticipate that Visa Inc. will post 13.09 EPS for the current year.

Visa declared that its board has initiated a stock repurchase plan on Tuesday, April 28th that authorizes the company to repurchase $20.00 billion in shares. This repurchase authorization authorizes the credit-card processor to repurchase up to 3.6% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are usually a sign that the company’s board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

Visa Announces Dividend

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Monday, June 1st. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, May 12th were issued a dividend of $0.67 per share. This represents a $2.68 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.8%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Tuesday, May 12th. Visa’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 23.34%.

Analyst Ratings Changes

V has been the subject of a number of analyst reports. UBS Group boosted their price objective on Visa from $390.00 to $410.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, April 29th. Evercore set a $350.00 target price on Visa in a research report on Wednesday, April 29th. Weiss Ratings downgraded shares of Visa from a “buy (b-)” rating to a “hold (c+)” rating in a report on Thursday, April 16th. Raymond James Financial restated an “outperform” rating and set a $389.00 price target on shares of Visa in a research report on Wednesday, April 29th. Finally, Morgan Stanley reaffirmed an “overweight” rating and issued a $415.00 price objective on shares of Visa in a report on Wednesday, April 29th. Seven analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, seventeen have given a Buy rating and two have given a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $397.96.

Trending Headlines about Visa

Here are the key news stories impacting Visa this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Piper Sandler upgraded Visa to strong-buy, reinforcing optimism around the company’s earnings power, cross-border payments outlook, and resilient consumer spending trends.
• Positive Sentiment: Visa is being viewed as a key beneficiary of the new Open USD stablecoin initiative, a consortium-backed digital dollar project involving major players such as Stripe, BlackRock, Google, and Coinbase. Investors appear to see this as evidence Visa could remain central to next-generation money movement and settlement infrastructure.
• Positive Sentiment: Market commentary also highlighted Visa’s continued strength in travel, cross-border partnerships, and online spending trends, with Visa saying consumers are still prioritizing discretionary purchases through deal hunting rather than cutting back sharply.
• Neutral Sentiment: Visa’s expanded smartphone-based payment tools for small businesses support its longer-term growth story, but the near-term financial impact looks incremental.
• Negative Sentiment: CEO Ryan McInerney sold 20,970 shares in a pre-arranged 10b5-1 transaction, which may create some caution even though the sale was part of a planned trading program.

Visa Company Profile

Visa Inc is a global payments technology company that facilitates electronic funds transfers and digital commerce by connecting consumers, merchants, financial institutions and governments. The firm operates one of the world’s largest payment networks, providing processing, authorization, clearing and settlement services for credit, debit and prepaid card transactions. Visa’s network-based model enables partner banks and other issuers to offer branded payment products while Visa focuses on the infrastructure, standards and technologies that move money securely and efficiently around the world.

Visa’s product and service portfolio includes card-based payment products for consumers and businesses, real-time push-payment capabilities, tokenization and authentication services, fraud and risk-management tools, data analytics and APIs for fintech and merchant integration.