Global Payments Inc.
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Global Payments Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $7.7 billion, roughly unchanged from fiscal 2024. Member of the S&P 500; dividend growth for five consecutive years; insiders bought in the last twelve months.
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Global Payments Inc. (GPN) Altman Z-score
Global Payments Inc.'s Altman Z-score for fiscal 2025 is 0.90, in the distress zone (below 1.81).
Altman Z-score, annual
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Annual newest first
| Period | Altman Z-score | Change (points) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 0.90 | (0.25) |
| FY2024 | 1.15 | 0.10 |
| FY2023 | 1.06 | 0.00 |
| FY2022 | 1.05 | (0.56) |
| FY2021 | 1.61 | (1.02) |
| FY2020 | 2.63 | 1.05 |
| FY2019 | 1.59 | (0.17) |
| FY2018 | 1.75 | 0.06 |
| FY2017 | 1.69 | 0.41 |
| FY2016 | 1.28 | (0.12) |
How fiscal 2025’s score is made up
| Component | This year | Year before | Result | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Working capital / total assets | 0.10 | — | 0.12 | |
| Retained earnings / total assets | 0.11 | — | 0.16 | |
| EBIT / total assets | 0.03 | — | 0.11 | |
| Market value of equity / total liabilities | 0.63 | — | 0.38 | |
| Sales / total assets | 0.14 | — | 0.14 | |
| Altman Z-score | Distress zone | 0.90 | ||
| Z″ Variant for non-manufacturing and asset-light companies (drops the sales/assets term, uses book equity) | Grey zone | 2.05 | ||
Z and Z″ put Global Payments Inc. in different zones: distress zone by Z, grey zone by Z″.
How the Altman Z-score works
Z = 1.2 × working capital ÷ total assets + 1.4 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 3.3 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 0.6 × market value of equity ÷ total liabilities + 1.0 × revenue ÷ total assets (Altman, 1968). The market value of equity is the close on the last trading day of the fiscal year times weighted basic shares.
Z″ = 6.56 × working capital ÷ total assets + 3.26 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 6.72 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 1.05 × book equity ÷ total liabilities (Altman, Hartzell and Peck, 1995), the variant for non-manufacturing and asset-light companies.
| Zone | Z | Z″ |
|---|---|---|
| Safe zone | above 2.99 | above 2.60 |
| Grey zone | 1.81–2.99 | 1.10–2.60 |
| Distress zone | below 1.81 | below 1.10 |
Not worked out for banks, insurers and REITs, whose balance sheets the model does not describe, nor when a figure is missing or there is no share price in the week to the fiscal year end.
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| GPN Global Payments Inc. | 0.9× |
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What Altman Z-score is
The Altman Z-Score weighs working capital, retained earnings, operating profit, market value and sales against assets and debts to gauge the risk of distress.
1.2 × working capital ÷ total assets + 1.4 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 3.3 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 0.6 × market value of equity ÷ total liabilities + 1.0 × revenue ÷ total assets
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