Global Payments Inc. today announced results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2024.

“We are pleased with our solid financial performance in the third quarter, which reflects strong execution despite ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty,” said Cameron Bready, chief executive officer. “These results highlight the resiliency and durability of our business as we move aggressively to position Global Payments for the next phase of its growth journey as a leader in payments.”

Bready continued, “We are making substantial progress on the broad transformation agenda we detailed at our Investor Conference in September. We have refocused our strategy and are unifying our organization across assets and go-to-market activities, allowing us to unleash our full potential and play to our competitive strengths. I remain confident that our efforts to streamline and simplify our business will unlock substantial value and support sustainable growth well into the future, as we relentlessly pursue our ambition to be the worldwide partner of choice for commerce solutions.”

Bready concluded, “Consistent with these efforts, we have reached a definitive agreement to sell AdvancedMD to Francisco Partners. In connection with this sale, we also established a long-term commercial partnership with AdvancedMD, whereby we will continue to work together to deliver leading payments and commerce enablement solutions to its customers. This transaction further highlights the high quality assets in our portfolio and allows us to enhance value creation for shareholders. We expect this sale to close in the fourth quarter.”

Third Quarter 2024 Summary

• GAAP revenues were $2.60 billion, compared to $2.48 billion in 2023; diluted earnings per share were $1.24, compared to $1.39 in the prior year; and operating margin was 18.3%, compared to 22.5% in the prior year.

• Adjusted net revenues increased 6% to $2.36 billion, compared to $2.23 billion in the third quarter of 2023.

• Adjusted earnings per share increased 12% to $3.08, compared to $2.75 in the third quarter of 2023.

• Adjusted operating margin expanded 40 basis points to 46.1%.

2024 Outlook

“We are pleased with our financial and operational performance in the third quarter and year-to-date period,” said Josh Whipple, chief financial officer. “Notably, we produced strong adjusted free cash flow in the third quarter and also reduced our net leverage position by nearly a quarter-turn sequentially to 3.3 times, positioning us well to achieve our target by year end.”

Whipple continued, “The company continues to expect adjusted net revenue to be in a range of $9.17 billion to $9.30 billion, reflecting growth of 6% to 7%, and adjusted earnings per share to be in a range of $11.54 to $11.70, reflecting growth of 11% to 12% over 2023. Annual adjusted operating margin for 2024 is still expected to expand by up to 50 basis points.”

Whipple concluded, “Our outlook highlights the consistency of our model and the benefits of our sharpened focus as we execute on our strategic priorities.”

Capital Allocation

Global Payments’ Board of Directors approved a dividend of $0.25 per share payable on December 27, 2024 to shareholders of record as of December 13, 2024. The Board of Directors also approved an increase in the company's share repurchase authorization capacity to $2.5 billion.

Conference Call

Global Payments’ management will host a live audio webcast today, October 30, 2024, at 8:00 a.m. ET to discuss financial results and business highlights. The audio webcast, along with supplemental financial information, can be accessed via the investor relations page of the company’s website at investors.global payments.com. A replay of the audio webcast will be archived on the company's website following the live event.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

Global Payments supplements revenues, operating income, operating margin and net income and earnings per share determined in accordance with GAAP by providing these measures with certain adjustments (such measures being non-GAAP financial measures) in this earnings release to assist with evaluating our performance. In addition to GAAP measures, management uses these non-GAAP financial measures to focus on the factors the company believes are pertinent to the daily management of our operations.

Global Payments also has provided supplemental non-GAAP information to reflect the divestiture of the consumer portion of our Netspend business, which comprised our former Consumer Solutions segment, which closed in April 2023. Management believes that providing such supplemental financial information should enhance shareholders’ ability to evaluate how the business will be managed going forward.

Reconciliations of each of the non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measure are included in the schedules to this release, except for forward-looking measures where a reconciliation to the corresponding GAAP measures is not available due to the variability, complexity and limited visibility of the items that are excluded from the non-GAAP outlook measures.