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Visa Inc.VNYSE

Debt/Equity stays at or below 0.8. It has not broken in 12 filed years.

Today it reads 0.64x. Tested against 12 filed years.

Named tests met2 of 30
425.55 USD Market data. Sources for Share priceClose of Nov 11, 2026

Market data as of Nov 11, 2026. Ratios computed Nov 11, 2026.

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NYSE / Financial Services / Financial - Credit Services

Reading

The evidence behind it

Overview

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on invested capital, after tax

51.0% Computed

From the FY2026 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

33.78x Computed

FY2026 accounts, priced at 21:00 UTC

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Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

2.8% Computed

FY2026 accounts, priced at 21:00 UTC

Read cash generation

Strength

Debt to equity

0.64 Computed

From the FY2026 filing

Read strength

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2017 Revenue: 18.36B USDFY2017 Net income: 6.70B USDFY2018 Revenue: 20.61B USDFY2018 Net income: 10.30B USDFY2019 Revenue: 22.98B USDFY2019 Net income: 12.08B USDFY2020 Revenue: 21.85B USDFY2020 Net income: 10.87B USDFY2021 Revenue: 24.11B USDFY2021 Net income: 12.31B USDFY2022 Revenue: 29.31B USDFY2022 Net income: 14.96B USDFY2023 Revenue: 32.65B USDFY2023 Net income: 17.27B USDFY2024 Revenue: 35.93B USDFY2024 Net income: 19.74B USDFY2025 Revenue: 40.00B USDFY2025 Net income: 20.06B USDFY2026 Revenue: 45.90B USDFY2026 Net income: 23.50B USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Market capitalisation
794.00B USD Market data. Sources for Market capitalisation21:00 UTC
Filed accounts
FY2026, filed Nov 5, 2026
Filed years
12, FY2015 to FY2026
The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 33.78x at the close of 2026-11-11 on FY2026 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits between 25.00x and 40.00x.

Today, against the Financial - Credit Services industry (43 companies), 33.78x sits at the 88th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 4.83x to 20.43x.

Is it good

Return on invested capital was 51.0% in FY2026, in the band labelled "Exceptional" (20.0% and above), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data, suggesting returns on the capital in the business well above the usual cost of that capital.

Today, against the Financial Services sector (77 companies), 51.0% sits at the 94th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -0.5% to 9.2%.

Is it safe

Interest coverage was 37.08x in FY2026, in the band labelled "Comfortable" (6.00x and above), on lines anchored on Damodaran's interest-coverage table, suggesting an interest bill operating profit covers many times over.

Year by year against peers
Whether Visa Inc.'s return on equity stayed above the median of the Financial - Credit Services industry, year by year. (FY2017 to FY2025, 9 fiscal years of Visa Inc. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Visa Inc.'s return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2017 to FY2026, 10 filed years of Visa Inc.)
What could explain it
What in Visa Inc.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (4 readings drawn from the statement lines Visa Inc. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Visa Inc., and where in its filings. (4 questions for Visa Inc.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Visa Inc.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (13 of sixteen figures read for Visa Inc.)

These are V’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2026 annual report: 10-K, filed Nov 5, 2026, accession 0001403161-26-000134.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 11 figures could not be read on this company, among them Current Ratio, Positive Earnings Streak, Altman Z-Score. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 2 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

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ValueScreener · valuescreener.ai · Computed from accounts filed with the SEC by this company, read from EDGAR, and from dated closing prices. On this page a filed figure opens into its formula, its inputs and the statement, fiscal year and filing date it was read from, and a price into the day of its close. A figure that cannot show that trail says so.

A computation on accounts filed with the SEC, not a recommendation and not advice. Past filings do not indicate future results. Risk disclaimer.

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