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Financial and strategic steps

– Expected financial results: the Company plans to release financial results for the first fiscal quarter of 2025 on January 30, 2025. These results will be key to evaluating the Company’s current direction and financial stability.

– Acquisition of Featurespace: On December 19, 2024, the Company completed the acquisition of UK-based Featurespace. This acquisition will strengthen the Company’s payment fraud prevention and risk management capabilities, which are key to maintaining the trust of partners and users around the world.

– U.S. Retail Spending Growth: Visa Consulting & Analytics analysis showed that U.S. retail spending grew 4.8% year-over-year during the 2024 holiday season. This trend points to a steady recovery in consumer spending and an increase in transactions, which is good for Visa’s payments ecosystem.

Current share price development

As of January 23, 2025, Visa Inc (ticker: V) stock traded at $323.56. Over the past year, the stock price has ranged from $251 to $321. This development indicates stable investor confidence in the company’s long-term potential.

Outlook and conclusion

Visa Inc. continues to consolidate its position as a leader in digital payments. Strategic acquisitions, such as the Featurespace integration, along with positive retail spending trends are contributing to continued growth and innovation. Financial stability and a focus on technological innovation ensure investor attractiveness and sustainable long-term performance.

Visa Inc (NYSE-V) also pays regular quarterly dividends to its shareholders. The annual dividend yield is currently 0.73% per annum and the actual dividend amount has been approved by the company’s general meeting of shareholders at $2.36 per share. According to analysts at brokerage firms and financial strategists at investment banks, the share price can be expected to rise in the short to medium term investment horizon. The average target price was set at $342.65 per share by analysts at Zacks.com.

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The company unveiled all new hardware at a media event at its Cupertino, California headquarters on September 9, 2024. The new iPhone was the star of the show. A lot of new Apple Inc. models were announced, such as a number of new iPhones, a new Apple Watch and some improvements to current models, and new AirPods with new features, as well as new, upcoming Apple Intelligence features coming to iOS 18. The Apple Watch is celebrating its tenth anniversary. In honor of this anniversary, Apple has redesigned the latest addition under the Apple Watch Series 10 name. This watch is much lighter and thinner than its predecessor, the Series 9. They have the largest display ever on an Apple Watch with 30% more screen area, where the display is even larger than the Apple Watch Ultra series. This new display is OLED, has rounder edges, and is easier to see when you’re not looking at the display from the front. The new Watch line also comes with premium health features like sleep apnea detection, which detects breathing activity that stops and starts again when you’re asleep. Monitoring is done through the watch’s accelerometer. Apple has added a few new options for its AirPods. Apple has made active noise cancellation available for the first time in regular AirPods. One of the new features Apple showed off is the ability to point your iPhone’s camera at a restaurant, place of business, flyer, or other informational sign and ask the virtual assistant Siri to tell you more about it, show you a photo, menu, hours, links to reservations, etc.

Apple Inc (AAPL-NASDAQ) is also currently developing a revolutionary technology, personal robots for use in the home. Ultimately, services such as the App Store, TV+, and Apple One bundles depend on the iPhone and other devices. Therefore, it’s imperative that the company stays at the forefront of hardware innovation and keeps up with the competition in artificial intelligence, and the new personal robotics industry will be a big help. Apple Inc.’s business remains heavily dependent on iPhones, which account for more than half of its revenue. Apple Inc (AAPL-NASDAQ) pays regular attractive quarterly dividends to its shareholders. The dividend yield is currently 0.45% p.a. The current dividend amount has been approved by the company’s shareholders’ meeting at $0.25 per share. The average target price has been set by tipranks.com analysts at $249.48 per share for the short to medium term investment horizon.

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