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  • VISA INC Profile

    Paper or plastic? Visa hopes you choose the latter. Visa operates the world's largest consumer payment system (ahead of MasterCard and American Express) with some 2 billion credit and other payment cards in circulation. It licenses the Visa name to member institutions, which issue and market their own Visa products and participate in the VisaNet payment system (authorization, transaction processing, and settlement services). Visa also provides its customers with debit cards, Internet payment systems, value-storing smart cards, and traveler's checks. Visa Inc., which was created by a restructuring of several Visa organizations, went public in 2008 and raised about $17 billion.
    Joseph W. Saunders
    CEO
    900 Metro Center Blvd.

    Foster City, CA 94404

    http://corporate.visa.com

    Phone: 650-432-3200

    Fax: 650-432-7436
    Sector: Services Industry: Diversified Services
  • Sales Sales Growth Net Income Employees
    $ % $
  • Key Executives: V

    Name Title Officer Since
    Joseph W. Saunders CEO 5/25/07
    John M. Partridge COO -
    Byron H. Pollitt, Jr. CFO -
    Ellen Richey Chief Risk Officer -
    John C. Morris President -
    Joshua R. Floum General Counsel -
    Mary B. Cranston Director 10/1/07
    Gary P. Coughlan Director 10/1/07
  • Top Competitors: V

  • Insider Trends: V

    Sentiment for V is POSITIVE

    • 0M
    • 2M
    • 4M
    • 6M
    • Market Value of Insider Sales
    • Market Value of Insider Purchases
    Total dollar value of all insider purchases and sales over 12 months
  • Insider Transactions: V

    Date Name Shares Transaction Type Market Value
    04/30/08 MINEHAN CATHY ELIZABETH 2,000 Purchase $166,875.24
    03/25/08 MORRIS JOHN C 40,000 Purchase $1.76 M
    03/18/08 SWAINSON JOHN A C 3,682 Award of Stock Options $0.00
  • Ownership Breakdown : V

    Large Block Holder Type Number  
    Institutions 115.00
     
    Mutual Fund 110.00
    Other Major 1.00
  • Short Interest Volume: V

    Data as of 4/25/08
    Current Short Interest Shares 9.87 M
    Current Short Interest Ratio 0.90
    Float 447.32 M
    Short Interest as % of Float 2.20
    Average Daily Volume 17.98 M
    Outstanding Shares 447.89 M