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Global Payments Inc. GPN

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$7.7B
▼ 0.4% YoY
$1.4B
▼ 10.8% YoY
$2.0B
▼ 14.4% YoY

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

In brief

What this company does

Global Payments facilitates payment transaction processing services, including authorization, electronic draft capture, file transfers to facilitate funds settlement, and back-office support services such as chargeback resolution. As of December 31, 2025, it conducted business around the world with approximately 26,000 team members living and working in 37 countries, with approximately 50% of its workforce in the Americas, 22% in Europe and 28% in Asia Pacific. Through its Merchant Solutions segment, it provides payments technology and software solutions globally, enabling customers to accept card, check and digital-based payments. In the Merchant Solutions segment, it markets and provides its payment services, business management software solutions and other value-added services through a variety of distribution channels across three business pillars: Point-of-Sale and Software Solutions, Integrated and Embedded Solutions, and Core Payments Solutions. The majority of its revenue is generated by services priced as a percentage of transaction value or a specified fee per transaction, depending on the payment type or the market.

Written from the business description in Global Payments Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 20 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 7.7B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 7.7 · Net income 1.4
4B8B
2008201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
−5.0%
+0.7%
+10.3%
+9.9%
+132.4%
+19.1%
+17.8%
+13.5%
+143.6%
+24.3%
+0.0%
+5.1%
−23.5%
+10.6%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +0.7% a year over the five years to FY2025 — but profit grew faster: net income at +19.1%, earnings per share at +24.3%.

The share count fell from 0.30B to 0.24B — the buyback concentrates the same profit into fewer slices.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

19 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 22.8% · Net 18.9%
10%20%
200820162025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 6.2%
10%20%30%
200820162025
Three returns, three denominators.
Gross margin72.6%
Operating margin22.8%
Net margin18.9%
EBITDAUSD 3.0B

Each USD of equity produced 6 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 1.4B
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $B
FY2025 · FCF 2.0
1.0B2.0B-0.1B-0.2B
200820162025
Net buybacks $B Dividends $B
FY2025 · Dividends 0.2 · Net buybacks 1.2
2B3BDividendsNet buybacks
200820102012201420172019202120232025
Dividends paidUSD 238.5M
Net buybacksUSD 1.2B
Share of profit102.1%
Consecutive raises·

USD 238.5M in dividends and USD 1.2B in buybacks — 102% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.

Total assetsUSD 53.3B
EquityUSD 22.9B
CashUSD 8.3B
Gross debtUSD 21.6B
Net debtUSD 13.2B
Current ratio1.69×

Net debt stands at 58% of equity.

The 18-year record

18 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.

row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
GPN, 18-year financial record
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008
Revenue $B7.77.77.49.08.57.44.93.44.03.42.92.82.62.42.21.91.61.5
Operating income $B1.82.01.30.61.40.90.80.70.60.40.40.50.40.40.30.30.30.3
EBITDA $B3.03.22.52.33.12.51.71.31.0◌0.60.60.50.50.40.40.4◌
Income tax $B0.30.20.20.20.20.10.10.1−0.10.00.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.1
Net income $B1.41.61.00.11.00.60.40.50.50.20.30.30.20.20.20.20.20.0
Free cash flow $B2.02.41.91.62.31.91.10.90.3◌0.50.30.10.1−0.30.60.40.3
EPS, diluted $5.786.163.770.403.291.952.162.843.011.372.042.061.692.762.372.602.480.46
Dividend / sh $1.001.001.001.000.890.780.230.040.04◌0.040.040.040.080.080.080.080.08
Payout %17162624627401511—222333317
ROE %6.26.94.40.53.62.12.711.614.67.515.531.722.918.616.020.526.45.5
Shares out B0.240.250.260.260.280.300.300.160.160.150.150.070.070.080.080.080.08◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 68 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of the 18 fiscal years we could check. Four checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2009. Two checks were skipped: the share count is not tagged before 2009. One check was skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2008.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityServices-Business Services, NEC
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inGeorgia
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2008

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