Watch more: Need to Know With Visa's Sara Craven Small merchants are preparing for a customer who may find them through artificial intelligence before ever visiting their website, app or store. They aren't particularly ready.
Visa (V) has received quite a bit of attention from Zacks.com users lately. Therefore, it is wise to be aware of the facts that can impact the stock's prospects.
Visa just posted a fifteenfold jump on a new payment rail while its core business hits records, but the real question is whether stablecoins strengthen its network grip or quietly erode the economics that justify trading near all-time highs.
Visa's new stablecoin platform hands banks a ready-made toolkit for minting, holding, and moving digital dollars. Merchants receive local currency automatically, so nobody has to talk a coffee shop into accepting Bitcoin.
Investors often turn to recommendations made by Wall Street analysts before making a Buy, Sell, or Hold decision about a stock. While media reports about rating changes by these brokerage-firm employed (or sell-side) analysts often affect a stock's price, do they really matter?
I view Visa as one of the more attractive ways to benefit from AI, as it can monetize agentic commerce and internal productivity gains without having to win the much riskier parts of the AI trade. Value-added services remain a major growth driver, with Q3 revenue up 33% YoY and several portfolios consistently growing above 20%. I increasingly see stablecoins as more of an opportunity than a threat, as Visa builds infrastructure across multiple coins, chains, and tokenized payment formats.
There is a very good and deliberate reason for this. And it lies in the company's highly effective business model.
MA edges V on expected EPS growth and strategic expansion in AI and digital assets, supported by Agent Pay, BVNK and value-added services.
Global electronic brokerage firm Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. contributed to performance due to continued strong growth and profitability. CME Group shares fell due to a slowdown in trading activity, reflecting tough comparisons against last year's tariff-driven uncertainty as well as easing market volatility following the deescalation of the U.S.-Iran conflict. We initiated a position in AerCap Holdings N.V., the largest aircraft leasing company in the world.
Stablecoin payments and treasury platform Velocity has raised $10 million in new funding. The financing will support Velocity's work to provide stablecoin infrastructure to issuers, acquirers, payment providers, financial institutions and merchants, the company said in a news release Tuesday (Sept.