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Consolidated fair value $457.98 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $8.16B 36% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution $66.44B EBITDA less segment capex, before corporate items

Value-added services keeps compounding at better than 20% across issuing, acceptance and risk, `other` keeps its advisory and marketing momentum without needing FIFA to repeat, the $563M severance action against about 2,600 roles converts into operating leverage, and the renewal wave passes without permanently resetting the incentive rate - the contra line falls to 24.5% of gross revenue by fiscal 2031 rather than rising to 31.8%. Net revenue reaches $79.0B in fiscal 2030 and the multiple holds at 13.0x. What this case does NOT assume is that the currency-volatility spread recovers to its fiscal 2025 peak; international transaction revenue still grows more slowly here than its cross-border volume. Fair value $457.98, the only case on this page above the current price.

Service revenue

Basis quarter$4.92B
Final quarter$8.16B
Implied CAGR+11%
Final revenue mix36%

Assessments earned for providing the Visa brand, products and network to clients, recognised on the PRIOR quarter's payments volume. The lag is disclosed in every release and is why fiscal Q3 (Apr-Jun) is the softest quarter: it is billed on the January-March spend trough.

Last four quarters
2025 Q4 $4.60B Estimated
2026 Q1 $4.76B Reported
2026 Q2 $4.98B Reported
2026 Q3 $4.92B Reported
Client assessments on payments volume, recognised one quarter in arrears
Sequential growth +2.2%/qtr decaying toward +2.0% +2.2% deseasonalised. With the four other lines it prints the guide-consistent fiscal Q4 of $12,150M, +13.3% YoY.
Service revenue

Latest: $8.16B (2031Q3E)

Period Value
2022Q1 $3.19B
2022Q2 $3.52B
2022Q3 $3.19B
2022Q4 $3.46B
2023Q1 $3.51B
2023Q2 $3.77B
2023Q3 $3.67B
2023Q4 $3.88B
2024Q1 $3.92B
2024Q2 $4.03B
2024Q3 $3.97B
2024Q4 $4.20B
2025Q1 $4.21B
2025Q2 $4.40B
2025Q3 $4.33B
2025Q4 $4.60B
2026Q1 $4.76B
2026Q2 $4.98B
2026Q3 $4.92B
2026Q4E $5.26B
2027Q1E $5.35B
2027Q2E $5.62B
2027Q3E $5.47B
2027Q4E $5.84B
2028Q1E $5.93B
2028Q2E $6.22B
2028Q3E $6.05B
2028Q4E $6.46B
2029Q1E $6.56B
2029Q2E $6.88B
2029Q3E $6.69B
2029Q4E $7.14B
2030Q1E $7.25B
2030Q2E $7.60B
2030Q3E $7.39B
2030Q4E $7.88B
2031Q1E $8.01B
2031Q2E $8.39B
2031Q3E $8.16B

Assumptions & reasoning

  • Recognised on the PRIOR quarter's payments volume, which is why fiscal Q3 (April-June) is the softest quarter of Visa's year: it is billed on the January-March spend trough. Seasonality [1.000, 1.022, 0.969, 1.009] is indexed on the FISCAL label, so index 1 is the October-December quarter.
  • The seasonal signal here is moderate, not strong: 5.3% amplitude against a worst-quarter window spread of 3.3%, a ratio of 1.60. It is carried because the signs are unanimous across every window and because the recognition lag that produces them is disclosed in every release, not because the ratio clears a statistical bar.
  • No unit driver exists. Visa discloses payments volume only as a growth rate in its filings; the absolute figure appears on calls (`crossed $4 trillion` in the June quarter) and never in a table. Building a unit driver would mean inventing the volume series, so growth on the disclosed net line is used instead.
  • Deseasonalised sequential trend is +2.74% a quarter over the last eight steps and +3.26% over the last four. The +2.2% first projected quarter sits below both, because the guide-consistent fiscal Q4 is slower than the recent run rate.
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