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Global Payments GPN Return on assets

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Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$3.0B+63.1%
Gross profit$1.7B+28.0%
Operating income-$15.6M-104%
Net income-$1.8B-689%
EPS (diluted)-$6.59-631%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$5.9B+116%
Total debt$22.6B+39.3%
Total equity$23.8B+6.9%
Total assets$64.3B+34.9%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow-$288.8M-152%
CapEx$261.3M+105%
Free cash flow-$550.2M-229%

Valuation

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Market cap$18.15B-23.1%
Enterprise value$34.88B-6.2%
P/S2.1×-1.0×

Profitability

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Gross margin67.3%-6.4pp
Operating margin15.3%-10.4pp
Net margin-8%-28.2pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity-3.1%-10.1pp
Debt / equity0.9×+0.2×
Current ratio0.8×-0.2×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Global Payments’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: Global Payments’s 10-Q, filed May 8, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Global Payments's return on assets?
Global Payments (GPN) reported return on assets of -1.3% in Q1 2026.
How has Global Payments's return on assets changed year-over-year?
Global Payments's return on assets decreased by 140.1% year-over-year, from 3.1% to -1.3%.
What is the long-term trend for Global Payments's return on assets?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Global Payments's return on assets has grown at a 12.9% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 7.6% to 12.4%.
What does return on assets mean?
How much profit the company squeezes out of everything it owns.
How do you interpret return on assets?
Higher means more productive assets. Unlike ROE, it is unaffected by leverage, so a wide ROE-minus-ROA gap flags a heavily levered balance sheet.
How does return on assets compare across companies?
Best compared within an industry — asset intensity varies enormously across sectors. Not meaningful for banks, whose assets are largely financial.