Visa Inc.
Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) operates as one of the world's leading digital payments companies, facilitating secure, reliable and efficient global commerce and money movement across more than 200 countries and territories. The company's website is www.visa.com. From the company’s description.
Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure. is shown separately from the annual figures.
What Visa Inc. does
In the company’s own words
Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) operates as one of the world's leading digital payments companies, facilitating secure, reliable and efficient global commerce and money movement across more than 200 countries and territories. The company's website is www.visa.com.
Visa operates through a four-party model connecting consumers, issuing financial institutions, acquiring institutions and sellers through its proprietary VisaNet transaction processing network. During fiscal 2025, Visa processed 258 billion transactions, representing an average of 901 million transactions daily, with total payments and cash volume reaching $17 trillion. The company maintains nearly 5 billion payment credentials available at more than 175 million merchant locations worldwide and serves approximately 14,500 financial institution clients.
The company's revenue streams include service revenue from client usage of payment services, data processing revenue from authorization and settlement activities, international transaction revenue from cross-border processing, and other revenue from value-added services and licensing. Visa also pays client incentives to financial institutions and partners to drive volume growth and innovation.
Visa's business strategy centers on three primary growth pillars: consumer payments, commercial and money movement solutions, and value-added services. Consumer payments encompasses credit, debit and prepaid products alongside emerging capabilities like contactless Tap to Everything technology and token-based digital wallets. Commercial and money movement solutions addresses business-to-business payments through Visa Commercial Solutions and domestic and cross-border money movement through Visa Direct, which processed more than 12.5 billion transactions in fiscal 2025. Value-added services span issuing solutions, acceptance solutions, risk and security solutions, and advisory services delivered through platforms including Visa DPS, Pismo, Cybersource and Tink.
As of September 30, 2025, Visa employed approximately 34,100 people across 86 countries and territories, with more than 60 percent located outside the United States. The company has made significant acquisitions including Tink, Currencycloud, YellowPepper, Earthport and Featurespace, which have strengthened its capabilities in open banking, money movement and fraud prevention. Visa continues investing in emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, stablecoins and agentic commerce to extend its network capabilities and address evolving payment needs globally.
Company details
- Sector
- Financials
- Industry (SIC)
- Business Services
- Headquarters
- SAN FRANCISCO, CA
- Fiscal year end
- September
- CIK
- 1403161
- SIC
- 7389
Financial performance, year by year
Fiscal 2013–2025 · USDThe full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.
Who owns Visa Inc. — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Superinvestors in Visa Inc. · what they did last quarter
Share of each manager’s reported 13F portfolio. Change is in shares held, since the previous quarter.
Largest fund holders · Visa Inc.’s weight in each
Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.
Visa Inc.’s bonds, as funds hold them
Funds report holding 20 issues of Visa Inc.’s debt, $1.64B at market value — what funds hold, not the company’s total debt. Weighted-average coupon 3.26%, maturing 2027 to 2050.
Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.
Fund ownership is a subset of institutional 13F ownership — the two describe overlapping populations and must not be added together.
Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.
Recent filings
All filings →Each filing opens into its own statements and disclosures here.
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