Visa Inc - V: A Stock For Your Retirement Years

Visa Inc, stock ticker V, currently pays a quarterly dividend of 22 cents per share (0.78% dividend yield as of 5/20/12). In my opinion V looks like a stock to hold within your Roth IRA stock portfolio for your retirement years even if the yield is not currently at 2%+. Visa has a $90 plus billion market cap and a dividend that has doubled over the past few years. V is a monster on the NYSE. Visa holds no debt and $3 billion dollars on the books. And the books are not cooked!

In short, Visa is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, banks and governments in more than 200 countries and territories, enabling the population digital currency instead of cash and checks. Visa Inc manages a range of payment brands, including Visa, Visa Electron, PLUS and Interlink, which it licenses to its clients for use in their payment programs. They offer a branded payments product platforms which includes credit, debit, prepaid and cash access programs for their customers. Visa Inc provides transaction processing and value added services to its clients through VisaNet, Visa Debit Processing Services and Visa Processing Services.

Recent Acquisitions include:
- March 2011 -  PlaySpan Inc. (click here to visit PlaySpan's website)
- June 2011 - Fundamo (click here to visit Fundamo's website)

Visa practically owns the entire electronic banking platform, in addition to Mastercard (stock ticker MA). V is very undervalued. The world is gradually going to become a cashless society. V and MA will be there to profit all along the way. I cannot think of a better business model. With a 29% year over year growth over last 5 years and 19% projected for next 5 years, and no debt V continues to beat analyst expectations.

We all know the global population is increasing and so is their acceptance of credit in emerging markets, which include China, India, Africa, and so forth. With the acquisition of Fundamo Visa is well positioned to secure a monopoly in profits/transactions for at least our lifetime.

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Visa's Current Statistics to get a head start on your due diligence:

52 week 73.11 - 125.35
Vol / Avg. 6.49M/3.91M
Mkt cap 91.69B
P/E 26.30
Div/yield $0.22/0.78%
EPS 4.28
Shares 813.98M
Beta 0.76
Inst. own 54%

Q1 (Mar '12) versus 2011
Net profit margin 50.12% 39.68%
Operating margin 62.30% 59.38%
EBITD margin - 62.52%
Return on average assets 14.27% 10.70%
Return on average equity 18.57% 14.19%
Employees 7,500 -

Notable Recent News Topics pertaining to Visa:
5/7/12 - Visa Raises "No Signature" Limit to $50 to Increase Merchant Efficiency & Consumer Convenience
5/2/12 - Visa Inc. Posts Strong Fiscal Second Quarter 2012 Earnings Results
2/29/12 - Orange to Offer Visa Mobile Prepaid Accounts to Orange Money Customers in Africa and the Middle East
2/22/12 - Visa and Monitise Set to Transform Mobile Payments Services in India
2/6/12 - Visa Tops One Million Chip Cards in the U.S.

1/10/12 - Visa and Better ATM Services® Debut First ATM-Dispensed Visa Gift Cards

1/10/12 - Visa Certifies Smartphones for Use as Visa Mobile Payment Devices

Visa Inc is a well established company and here to stay. V dominates the credit card and debit card markets. The bottom line is this: for all of those late fee, overdraft, and interest charges that Visa card members pay it provides a healthy revenue stream for Visa. Why not purchase V long term so you can have that same type of revenue stream in dividend payments? I am not surprised Visa is running on all cylinders and will expect this stock to be a long-term winner.

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