Visa Inc.

Visa Inc. is a US-based payments technology company whose shares trade on the NYSE under the ticker V. The company does not issue cards or extend credit to consumers; it operates VisaNet, the network used to authorize, clear and settle payments between banks, merchants and cardholders.

Its income consists of service fees tied to the volume of spending on cards, transaction processing fees, cross-border payments between different currencies, and value-added services such as fraud prevention, data analytics and Visa Direct. The parties that issue cards and take on the credit risk are the financial institutions that partner with Visa.

Those following Visa stock track global consumer spending, cross-border travel activity, regulatory and litigation processes concerning card fees in the US, and competition from alternatives such as account-to-account fast payment systems. The V page on Lzzo.com shows the share price in US dollars, a chart drawn over different time ranges and technical indicators.