Visa (V) Stock: Price, Trend, Options & Financials
Visa's price regime, relative strength, unusual-options history, curated-manager ownership and filed fundamentals — joined into one dated stock intelligence page.
What the evidence says now
V closed at $371.04 on Aug 21, 2026. The price is +5.2% from its 50-day average and +11.8% from its 200-day average, which places it in the rules-based “established uptrend” regime. The relative-strength check: over three months the stock returned +12.1%, beating SPY by 9.0%. It remains 0.8% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessLast updated 2026-08-21 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is +5.2% from its 50-day average and +11.8% from its 200-day average. Over three months, V returned +12.1% versus +3.1% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- +5.2%
- vs 200-day
- +11.8%
- From 52W high
- -0.8%
Descriptive, not predictive. “Uptrend” is a rules-based reading of the close and moving averages; it is not a rating, price target or recommendation.
Price & regime
One year of daily price and volume
252 split-adjusted sessions · candles above, share volume below
Unusual options — attention, not intent
V appeared in a UOA top-30 list on 2 of 62 archived scanner sessions: 1 call-side, 1 put-side and 0 on both lists. The latest session did not place it in either top 30. Its larger composite score was -0.26, below the 1.5 “strong” threshold. That is repeated options attention, not proof of bullish trade initiation.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-23 | — | #26 |
| 2026-06-18 | #11 | — |
Latest chain snapshot
2026-08-21Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. Current OTM volume/OI: 0.058 calls, 0.079 puts.
Curated-manager ownership
5 of the 20 managers in the project's curated 13F set reported a long Visa position in their latest filing, worth $11.5B in aggregate at each filing's reported value. This is a focused manager panel, not the complete institutional holder list.
| Fund / manager | Position value | Portfolio | Shares | Quarter change | Report date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
TCI Fund Management Chris Hohn · V | $10.5B | 19.83% | 30.49M | +0.1% unchanged | 2026-06-30 |
Fundsmith Terry Smith · V | $693M | 5.08% | 2.02M | -34.9% reduced | 2026-06-30 |
Baupost Group Seth Klarman · V | $241M | 4.44% | 701,355 | 0.0% unchanged | 2026-06-30 |
Lone Pine Capital Steve Mandel · V | $57M | 0.35% | 165,960 | +78.9% increased | 2026-06-30 |
Baron Capital Group Ron Baron · V | $62M | 0.09% | 180,071 | -0.0% unchanged | 2026-06-30 |
Filed fundamentals — latest snapshot
Go deeper into the filings
The dedicated Financials dashboard carries the complete quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history, with derived figures flagged and every XBRL concept disclosed.
Open V Financials →How V trades — the working manual
Visa operates a global payments network rather than lending directly to most cardholders. For the stock, the useful operating read is payments volume, transactions and cross-border activity, followed by the take rate, value-added services and the degree to which revenue growth produces operating leverage.
What can move the tape
- 01Payments volume, processed transactions and consumer spending across major markets.
- 02Cross-border volume and travel activity, which carry distinct revenue economics.
- 03Value-added services, client incentives and the net revenue yield on network activity.
- 04Operating leverage, free-cash-flow conversion and capital returns.
What can fool the read
- 01Interchange and payments regulation can change network or issuer economics.
- 02Travel and discretionary spending expose cross-border revenue to economic cycles.
- 03Account-to-account systems, wallets and other payment methods can alter transaction flows.
- 04Litigation and client incentives can obscure otherwise stable volume growth.
No V flags in the committed 2026-04-01–2026-08-21 archive. That means no session cleared this project's anomaly threshold; it does not mean trading volume was literally constant.
Not published yet. The local archive has 1 reported V events—too few for a defensible gap-and-drift study. This missing block is an explicit indexing blocker.
Source map & freshness
| Block | What it uses | Vintage | Raw data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | SEC issuer + primary security mapping | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
| Price & trend | Split-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison | 2026-08-21 | CSV ↓ |
| Options | End-of-day chain anomaly ranks | 2026-08-21 | Premium → |
| Ownership | Latest filings from 20 curated 13F managers | 2026-08-21 | Tool → |
| Financials | SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts | 2026-08-15 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
V stock questions
Is V stock in an uptrend?+
V is classified in the “established uptrend” regime as of 2026-08-21: the close is +5.2% from its 50-day average and +11.8% from its 200-day average. This describes the current tape. It is not a forecast.
What does unusual options activity in V mean?+
Visa's OTM option chain produced an outlier relative to the scanner universe on at least one archived session. Call-side and put-side labels identify which book produced the signature; end-of-day chain data does not identify buyers, sellers, institutions or spread legs.
Are the V 13F holdings current?+
No. 13F filings are delayed quarter-end snapshots and cover only the curated managers in this project. They are useful for documented ownership changes, not real-time positioning or complete institutional ownership.
Where are V's income statement and cash flow?+
The dedicated V Financials page contains the full quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history parsed from SEC EDGAR XBRL. This stock page carries only the latest filed snapshot.
Why is there no V earnings-move base rate yet?+
The committed earnings archive does not yet contain enough reported events for a defensible company-level reaction study. The page leaves that block unpublished instead of presenting a tiny sample as a reliable base rate.