5 Financial Transaction Stocks to Watch Despite Elevated Expense Level

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• The Financial Transaction Services industry is currently trading at a forward 12-month P/E of 18.15X, compared with the S&P 500's 22.51X and the sector's 18X

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• Fidelity National carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold)

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• Zacks Consensus Estimate for Mastercard's 2026 earnings is $19.38 per share, indicating a 13.9% rise from the year-ago figure

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• Zacks Consensus Estimate for Global Payments' 2026 earnings is $13.85 per share, indicating a 13.3% rise from the 2025 estimate

  80% confidence

• Fiserv carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold)

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• Zacks Consensus Estimate for Fidelity National's 2026 earnings is $6.27 per share, indicating an improvement of 8.7% from the 2025 estimate

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• The Financial Transaction Services industry is likely to benefit from expanding global trade, rising international travel and growing demand for seamless cross-border payments and remittances

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• Zacks Consensus Estimate for Visa's fiscal 2026 earnings is $12.84 per share, indicating an 11.9% rise from the year-ago figure

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• The Zacks Financial Transaction Services industry currently carries a Zacks Industry Rank #135, placing it in the bottom 44% of 243 Zacks industries

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• Global Payments carries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy)

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• With expectations for interest rate cuts in 2026, companies may increasingly use debt financing to fund acquisitions and accelerate growth

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• Mastercard carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold)

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• Persistent inflation and tariff pressures may further strain consumer budgets in the financial transaction services space

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• Zacks Consensus Estimate for Fiserv's 2026 earnings is $8.14 per share, with revenue consensus implying 3.4% improvement from year-ago

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• Global Payments' earnings beat estimates in three of the last four quarters and missed once, with an average surprise of 1.93%

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• The top 50% of Zacks-ranked industries outperform the bottom 50% by a factor of more than two to one

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• Visa carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold)

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• In the past five years, the Financial Transaction Services industry traded as high as 36.92X, as low as 18.15X and at the median of 22.24X on a forward P/E basis

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• Fiserv's earnings beat estimates in three of the last four quarters and missed once

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• Fidelity National's earnings beat estimates in three of the last four quarters and matched once, with average surprise of 1.64%

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• Mastercard's earnings beat estimates in each of the last four quarters, with an average surprise of 5.48%

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• Visa's earnings beat estimates in each of the last four quarters, with an average surprise of 2.12%

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• The Financial Transaction Services industry has declined 24.3% compared with the Business Services sector's decline of 24.4% over the past year

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