2 weeks Ago By [email protected] (Jake Lerch)
Smart investments change lives. Take Visa ( V -0.17% ) , for example.
It's hardly the most exciting stock around , but it has consistently beaten the S&P 500 over the last decade. The result? Big financial gains for investors smart enough to buy and patient enough to hold. As of this writing, Visa has generated a compound annual growth rate of 18.
6%, dating back to March 23 , 2025. Over the same period , the S&P 500's compound annual growth rate was 12.6%.
That means that an investor who bought $25,000 of Visa stock on March 23 , 2015, would now have a position worth about $137,000 after price appreciation and reinvested dividend payments . Visa currently pays a modest dividend of $2.36 per share on an annualized basis, which gives it a dividend yield of about 0.
7% at today's share price. V Total Return Level data by YCharts. Is Visa stock a buy now? So, is now a good time to consider buying Visa shares? I think so, and here's why.
Visa operates an enormous payment network that facilitates literally tens of billions of dollars worth of transactions every single day . In its fiscal 2025 first quarter, which ended on Dec. 31 , the company reported $4.
1 trillion in payment volume across its network. That staggering sum drove $9.5 billion in revenue and $5.
1 billion in net income . Visa's business model is simple, steady, and lucrative. A s a result, owning its stock has been a smart choice for more than a decade.
Accordingly, investors would be wise to give this stock a close look..
