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Global Payments GPN Return on equity

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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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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 equity?
Global Payments (GPN) reported return on equity of -3.1% in Q1 2026.
How has Global Payments's return on equity changed year-over-year?
Global Payments's return on equity decreased by 143.6% year-over-year, from 7% to -3.1%.
What is the long-term trend for Global Payments's return on equity?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Global Payments's return on equity has grown at a 21.1% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 12.7% to 27.3%.
What does return on equity mean?
How much profit the company earns on the money shareholders have invested.
How do you interpret return on equity?
Higher is better, but very high ROE can be manufactured by leverage — a thin equity base inflates the ratio. Read it next to debt-to-equity and ROIC to tell genuine returns from balance-sheet engineering.
How does return on equity compare across companies?
Comparable across peers, with the leverage caveat. Negative or near-zero equity makes ROE meaningless, so it is suppressed there.