Visa Inc. Class A
- Industry
- FinTech
- Exchange
- US
- Country
- USA
- IPO date
- Mar 19, 2008
- Employees
- 34,100
- Website
- www.visa.com
Composite valuation range · conservative $200–$230 / fair $260–$310 / optimistic $360–$420. At $362.53, Within the optimistic intrinsic-value range · much expectation priced in.
At publication $328.88 (May 25, 2026)
Data from EODHD, shown in the reporting currency; for reference only, not investment advice.
Visa Inc. operates as a payment technology company in the United States and internationally. The company operates VisaNet, a transaction processing network that enables authorization, clearing, and settlement of payment transactions. It also offers credit, debit, and prepaid card products; tap to pay, tokenization, and click to pay services; Visa Direct, a platform which facilitates money movement, enabling clients to collect, hold, convert, and send funds across its network; and issuing solutions, such as airport lounge access, dining reservations, shopping experiences, event tickets, and seller offers. In addition, the company provides acceptance solutions, an omnichannel payment integration with e-commerce platforms; risk detection and prevention solutions; and advisory and other services comprising consulting practice, proprietary analytics models, data scientists and economists, marketing services, and managed services. It provides its services under the Visa, Visa Electron, V PAY, Interlink, and PLUS brands. The company serves consumers, sellers, financial institutions, and government entities. Visa Inc. was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
History
Visa Inc. was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. It operates as a payment technology company in the United States and internationally, running VisaNet, a network that handles authorization, clearing, and settlement of payment transactions. The company completed its initial public offering on March 19, 2008. Its offerings include credit, debit, and prepaid card products and the Visa Direct money-movement platform, provided under the Visa, Visa Electron, V PAY, Interlink, and PLUS brands. As of fiscal 2025 it employed about 34,100 people.
Industry position
Visa is one of the world's largest open payment networks. In fiscal 2025 it operated in over 200 countries and territories, connecting roughly 12 billion cards, accounts, and digital wallets and more than 175 million merchant acceptance points across about 14,500 financial institutions, with total payments and cash volume of around 17 trillion US dollars. Its most direct competitor is Mastercard: 2025 Visa card purchase volume was about 7.028 trillion US dollars versus Mastercard's roughly 2.958 trillion. Assets such as Tink, Currencycloud, Pismo, and Prisma extend it toward open banking and account-to-account infrastructure.