MARKETS / NYSE / GPN

NYSE · SERVICES-BUSINESS SERVICES, NEC · LARGE CAP

Global Payments Inc. GPN

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only

Revenue

$7.7B

▼ 0.4% YoY

Net income

$1.4B

▼ 10.8% YoY

Free cash flow

$2.0B

▼ 14.4% YoY

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

Compound annual growth

Revenue

−5.0%

+0.7%

+10.3%

+9.9%

Net income

+132.4%

+19.1%

+17.8%

+13.5%

EPS, diluted

+143.6%

+24.3%

Dividend / share

+0.0%

+5.1%

Returned to shareholders

−23.5%

+10.6%

+74.6%

+32.4%

3 yrs

5 yrs

10 yrs

15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +0.7% a year over five years — 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%

ROE

FY2025 · ROE 6.2%

Gross margin72.6%

Operating margin22.8%

Net margin18.9%

Return on assets2.9%

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

Net buybacks $B Dividends $B

FY2025 · Dividends 0.2 · Net buybacks 1.2

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

Metric	2025	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008
Revenue $B	7.7	7.7	7.4	9.0	8.5	7.4	4.9	3.4	4.0	3.4	2.9	2.8	2.6	2.4	2.2	1.9	1.6	1.5
Operating income $B	1.8	2.0	1.3	0.6	1.4	0.9	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3
EBITDA $B	3.0	3.2	2.5	2.3	3.1	2.5	1.7	1.3	1.0	·	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.4	·
Income tax $B	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	−0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Net income $B	1.4	1.6	1.0	0.1	1.0	0.6	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.0
Free cash flow $B	2.0	2.4	1.9	1.6	2.3	1.9	1.1	0.9	0.3	·	0.5	0.3	0.1	0.1	−0.3	0.6	0.4	0.3
EPS, diluted $	5.78	6.16	3.77	0.40	3.29	1.95	2.16	2.84	3.01	1.37	2.04	2.06	1.69	2.76	2.37	2.60	2.48	0.46
Dividend / sh $	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	0.89	0.78	0.23	0.04	0.04	·	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.08	0.08	0.08	0.08	0.08
Payout %	17	16	26	246	27	40	15	1	1	·	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	17
ROE %	6.2	6.9	4.4	0.5	3.6	2.1	2.7	11.6	14.6	7.5	15.5	31.7	22.9	18.6	16.0	20.5	23.6	·
Shares out B	0.24	0.25	0.26	0.26	0.28	0.30	0.30	0.16	0.16	0.15	0.15	0.13	0.07	0.08	0.08	0.08	0.08	·

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

Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 68 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of 19 fiscal years. 9 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures

ActivityServices-Business Services, NEC

Listed onNYSE

Incorporated inGeorgia

Fiscal year endsDecember 31

Data on record since2008