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Visa Inc.

FinancialsBusiness ServicesS&P 500
Ticker VSAN FRANCISCO, CAFiscal year ends SeptemberBook value per share $18.36Diluted shares 1.9B

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.

Fiscal year 2025 · ends 09-30Changes are against fiscal 2024The amber dot is the latest twelve months, to 2026-06-30
Sales & profitability
$40.00BFY2025
+11.3% year over year
Last 12 mo $44.49B
59.98%FY2025
−5.7 percentage points
Last 12 mo 60.68%
$20.06BFY2025
+1.6% year over year
Last 12 mo $22.59B
52.91%FY2025
+2.5 percentage points
Last 12 mo 64.22%
Cash & financing
$23.06BFY2025
+15.6% year over year
Last 12 mo $22.58B
$21.58BFY2025
+15.4% year over year
Last 12 mo $21.01B
0.66FY2025
Was 0.53× a year earlier
Last 12 mo 0.68
2.0BFY2025
−3.1% year over year
Last 12 mo 1.9B

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 · USD
$-4.45B$8.90B$22.24B$35.59B$48.94B2013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025Last 12 moLast 12 monthsLast 12 months

The 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.

Ownership

Who owns Visa Inc. — and what changed

Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30

1.7K
funds hold it
14 of 35
superinvestors hold it
$178.59B
held by funds, at market
31.0%
of shares held by funds
20
bond issues held by funds

Superinvestors in Visa Inc. · what they did last quarter

Chris HohnINCREASED +0.1%
TCI Fund Management
19.8%of 13F portfolio
Terry SmithDECREASED -34.9%
Fundsmith
5.1%of 13F portfolio
Polen CapitalDECREASED -26.2%
Polen Capital Management
5.3%of 13F portfolio

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

VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND
VTI · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.77%of fund net assets
VANGUARD 500 INDEX FUND
VOO · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.87%of fund net assets
iShares Core S&P 500 ETF
IVV · iShares Trust
0.88%of fund net assets
Fidelity 500 Index Fund
FXAIX · Fidelity Concord Street Trust
0.84%of fund net assets

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.

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