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 32× larger than Global Payments by market cap.
Side by side
| GPN | V | |
|---|---|---|
| Market cap | $20.8B | $658B |
| Price | $77.66 | $354.10 |
| Today | +2.1% | +1.5% |
| Return YTD | −1.8% | −0.5% |
| Return 1Y | −6.4% | −1.9% |
| P/E | — | 29.6 |
| P/S | 2.4 | 15.3 |
| P/B | 0.9 | 18.4 |
Data as of 2026-07-13 · updates daily after U.S. close
The two companies
Global PaymentsGPN
A merchant-acquiring and payment-technology company that helps businesses accept and manage payments across channels. Competes directly with Fiserv and Block.
Full GPN profile →VisaV
The world's largest card network — it does not lend, it takes a small fee on the value of every transaction that runs across its rails. A toll on global spending.
Full V profile →More comparisons in Payment rails & networks
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 →