(Jan 31): Visa Inc reported a fiscal first-quarter profit that exceeded Wall Street estimates as the world’s biggest payments network posted double-digit increases in cross-border volumes and processed transactions.
Adjusted net income rose 11% to US$5.46 billion (RM24 billion), or US$2.75 a share, the San Francisco-based company said Thursday in a statement. That beat the US$2.66 average estimate of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
Net revenue for the quarter ended Dec 31 climbed 10% to US$9.51 billion. Cross-border volumes increased 16% and processed transactions rose 11%.
The results “reflected healthy spending during the holiday season,” chief executive officer Ryan McInerney said in the statement.
Shares of Visa rose 1.4% to US$348.01 in extended trading at 6:28pm in New York. The stock had gained 24% in the past 12 months, trailing the 32% advance for the S&P 500 Financials Index.
Visa forecast that earnings per share for the fiscal year will grow by a percentage in the low-teens, and net revenue will increase in the low double-digits, according to a separate presentation.
Earlier Thursday, rival Mastercard Inc also posted a profit that beat estimates, fuelled in part by better-than-expected revenue growth.
On Tuesday, Visa announced a new partnership with Elon Musk’s X as the social-media network aims to expand its financial services offerings. Visa will help consumers load money into their digital wallets and link debit cards to enable transactions between X Money users.
Visa is the “best, most reliable, biggest money-movement platform” that can help developers quickly implement their solutions, McInerney said on a conference call with analysts, adding that creators on the platform will be paid more quickly.
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