Visa shares gained more than 1% in after-hours trading Thursday after the financial-technology powerhouse topped earnings and revenue expectations for its latest quarter.
The company generated fiscal first-quarter net income of $4.18 billion, or $1.99 a share, compared with $3.96 billion, or $1.83 a share, in the year-before quarter. On an adjusted basis, Visa
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earned $2.18 a share, up 21% from a year earlier and ahead of the FactSet consensus, which was for $2.01 a share.
Revenue rose to $7.94 billion from $7.06 billion, while analysts were anticipating $7.70 billion.
Payments volume rose 7% in the latest quarter on a constant-currency basis, while processed transactions increased 10%. Visa saw 22% growth in cross-border volume, or 31% growth when excluding transactions within Europe.
Outgoing Chief Executive Al Kelly, who will step down from his role at the start of February, noted that the company benefited from a “continued cross-border travel
recovery.”
During the December-ending quarter, Visa bought back 15.6 million shares of its class A stock at an average price of $198.74, for a total of $3.1 billion. The company had $14.0 billion left on its buyback authorization as of the end of 2022.
Visa’s report follows that from Mastercard Inc.
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earlier Thursday. Mastercard beat earnings expectations for the holiday quarter while calling out “remarkably resilient” consumer spending.
Fellow payments giant American Express Co.
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will deliver its own results before Friday’s opening bell.
Visa shares have advanced 8% so far this year as the Dow Jones Industrial Average
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has climbed about 2%.
Credit: marketwatch.com