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5 Financial Transaction Stocks to Watch Despite Elevated Expense Level

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5 Financial Transaction Stocks to Watch Despite Elevated Expense Level The Financial Transaction Services industry is likely to benefit from expanding global trade, rising international travel and growing demand for seamless cross-border payments and remittances…
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  • Global Payments carries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy)

    80% confidence
  • Fidelity National's earnings beat estimates in three of the last four quarters and matched once, with average surprise of 1.64%

    80% confidence
  • Zacks Consensus Estimate for Global Payments' 2026 earnings is $13.85 per share, indicating a 13.3% rise from the 2025 estimate

    80% confidence
  • Zacks Consensus Estimate for Fidelity National's 2026 earnings is $6.27 per share, indicating an improvement of 8.7% from the 2025 estimate

    80% confidence
  • Global Payments' earnings beat estimates in three of the last four quarters and missed once, with an average surprise of 1.93%

    80% confidence
  • The top 50% of Zacks-ranked industries outperform the bottom 50% by a factor of more than two to one

    80% confidence
  • Zacks Consensus Estimate for Visa's fiscal 2026 earnings is $12.84 per share, indicating an 11.9% rise from the year-ago figure

    80% confidence
  • The Zacks Financial Transaction Services industry currently carries a Zacks Industry Rank #135, placing it in the bottom 44% of 243 Zacks industries

    80% confidence
  • Mastercard's earnings beat estimates in each of the last four quarters, with an average surprise of 5.48%

    80% confidence
  • Fidelity National carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold)

    80% confidence
  • With expectations for interest rate cuts in 2026, companies may increasingly use debt financing to fund acquisitions and accelerate growth

    80% confidence
  • Persistent inflation and tariff pressures may further strain consumer budgets in the financial transaction services space

    80% confidence
  • Fiserv carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold)

    80% confidence
  • The Financial Transaction Services industry is likely to benefit from expanding global trade, rising international travel and growing demand for seamless cross-border payments and remittances

    80% confidence
  • Fiserv's earnings beat estimates in three of the last four quarters and missed once

    80% confidence
  • Visa's earnings beat estimates in each of the last four quarters, with an average surprise of 2.12%

    80% confidence
  • The Financial Transaction Services industry has declined 24.3% compared with the Business Services sector's decline of 24.4% over the past year

    80% confidence
  • The Financial Transaction Services industry is currently trading at a forward 12-month P/E of 18.15X, compared with the S&P 500's 22.51X and the sector's 18X

    80% confidence
  • Mastercard carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold)

    80% confidence
  • Zacks Consensus Estimate for Mastercard's 2026 earnings is $19.38 per share, indicating a 13.9% rise from the year-ago figure

    80% confidence
  • Zacks Consensus Estimate for Fiserv's 2026 earnings is $8.14 per share, with revenue consensus implying 3.4% improvement from year-ago

    80% confidence
  • Visa carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold)

    80% confidence
  • In the past five years, the Financial Transaction Services industry traded as high as 36.92X, as low as 18.15X and at the median of 22.24X on a forward P/E basis

    80% confidence
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