Global Payments forward PE GPN

Share price divided by analysts' consensus earnings for the next twelve months, since 2001.

Today, Oct 23, 2026: 5.6×
10-year median: 16.8×
Against its 10-year history: 5th; percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
10-year range: 4.7× to 33.5×
Peer median: 15.3×

Global Payments' forward PE is 5.6× as of Oct 23, 2026.

That is below its ten-year median of 16.8×, lower than on 95% of days in the last ten years.

Over that time it ranged from 4.7× in Jun 2026 to 33.5× in Feb 2020.

The median for 10 credit services stocks of a similar size is 15.3×.

Forward PE over time

median 16.8×

The dashed line is the 10-year median and the shaded band the middle half of its days.

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Year by year

Year	End of year	Low	High
2026 so far	5.6×	4.7×	6.4×
2025	6.2×	5.7×	9.5×
2024	9.4×	8.1×	12.2×
2023	11.3×	9.4×	11.9×
2022	9.9×	9.5×	16.8×
2021	15.0×	13.4×	27.4×
2020	28.4×	19.3×	33.5×
2019	30.5×	17.9×	30.6×
2018	17.9×	16.8×	24.6×
2017	21.7×	20.8×	24.0×
2016	19.9×	18.3×	24.9×
2015	21.6×	17.1×	24.3×
2014	17.6×	15.4×	18.7×
2013	16.1×	11.6×	16.1×
2012	12.4×	11.3×	15.3×
2011	13.3×	11.6×	17.2×
2010	17.6×	14.0×	20.9×
2009	24.5×	14.8×	24.5×
2008	17.2×	17.0×	27.2×
2007	25.5×	19.8×	26.6×

Against its peers

Companies in Financial - Credit Services nearest Global Payments' size, closest first, today.

Company	Forward PE
GPNGlobal Payments	5.6×
AFRMAffirm	35.8×
SYFSynchrony Financial	7.7×
SOFISoFi Technologies	20.3×
RBARB Global	n/m
CSGPCostar	n/m
CARTMaplebear	n/m
PYPLPayPal	10.3×
HQYHealthequity	n/m
ETSYEtsy	n/m
ZGZillow	n/m
Peer median	15.3×

Where Global Payments ranks

What the forward PE tells you

Price divided by what analysts expect the company to earn over the next twelve months. It answers "what am I paying for next year" instead of last year.

Estimates are opinions. When forward PE is far below trailing PE, analysts expect a big jump in earnings. If that jump slips, the stock was not as cheap as it looked.

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Valuation data, not investment advice. Prices as of Oct 23, 2026. Reported figures come from the company's filings with the SEC.