Global Paymentsvs.Visa
GPN vs V · both in Payment rails & networks, part of the Banks, payments & capital markets value chain: The networks and processors that take a fee every time a card is swiped, the fee engine.
Visa is about 29× larger than Global Payments by market cap; year to date, Global Payments leads (+21.2% vs +9.5%).
Side by side
| GPN | V | |
|---|---|---|
| Market cap | $24B | $686B |
| Price | $92.96 | $383.90 |
| Today | −0.9% | −0.1% |
| Return YTD | +21.2% | +9.5% |
| Return 1Y | +5.6% | +10.1% |
| P/E | — | 30.4 |
| P/S | 2.4 | 15.4 |
| P/B | 1.0 | 19.5 |
Data as of 2026-08-27 · updates daily after U.S. close
The two companies
Global PaymentsGPN
Merchant acquiring: getting payments accepted and managed across every channel a business sells through. Fiserv and Block are the direct rivals.
Full GPN profile →VisaV
Visa lends nothing. It takes a small cut of the value of every transaction that crosses its rails, which makes it a toll on global spending rather than a lender.
Full V profile →More GPN & V comparisons
Other head-to-heads in the Payment rails & networks segment.
See where GPN and V sit in the full Banks, payments & capital markets map: every segment from suppliers to end markets.Open the Finance value chain →