U.S. Payment Company Completes Worldpay Acquisition, Expands Shareholder Returns through Buybacks and Dividends

Global Payments Inc. (GPN) reported fourth-quarter 2025 earnings per share (EPS) of $0.92, adjusted EPS of $3.18 and revenue of $1.9 billion. For the full year 2025, the company posted GAAP revenue of $7.71 billion, adjusted net revenue of $9.32 billion and adjusted EPS of $12.22, maintaining its growth trajectory.

Following the completion of its Worldpay acquisition and the divestiture of its Issuer Solutions business, Global Payments has repositioned itself as a pure merchant solutions provider. For 2026, it forecasts adjusted net revenue growth of approximately 5% excluding currency impacts, about 150 basis points of adjusted operating-margin expansion, and adjusted EPS in the range of $13.80 to $14.00.

The board approved a $2.5 billion share-repurchase program plus an accelerated repurchase of $550 million, reaffirming its plan to return a total of $7.5 billion (roughly KRW 10 trillion) to shareholders by the end of 2027. It also declared a quarterly dividend of $0.25 per share, effective March 30, 2026.

On March 1, Global Payments appointed Jennifer Bosman White as chief accounting officer and principal accounting officer. CEO Cameron Bready received approximately 122,000 restricted shares at the end of February as part of his equity compensation. After the share grant and the shares surrendered for tax withholding, Bready’s holdings are valued at about $33.7 million (approximately KRW 450 billion).

Despite the strong results and strategic realignment, the stock has been under pressure—by February 27 it was down 1.79%, marking its fifth consecutive day of declines and closing at $76.46, about 28% below its 52-week high.

Earlier, on January 9, the company officially closed the Worldpay acquisition and the Issuer Solutions divestiture, expanding into a large-scale merchant payments platform that now processes over 9.4 billion transactions annually across roughly 175 countries.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Global Payments is a payments-technology and fintech company in the S&P 500. It provides merchant payments, e-commerce and integrated POS solutions, leveraging the Visa and Mastercard networks. Rising demand for credit-card and digital-payment processing and software-integrated payments—bolstered by the Worldpay integration—positions it to compete for market share in global online and offline commerce payments.