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Deskus Archana reported acquisition or exercise transactions in this Form 4 filing.
GLOBAL PAYMENTS INC director Archana Deskus received a grant of 3,179 shares of common stock as compensation for her service as a non-employee director. These fully-vested shares increased her direct holdings to 4,499 shares of common stock following the transaction.
WOODS M TROY reported acquisition or exercise transactions in this Form 4 filing.
GLOBAL PAYMENTS INC director M Troy Woods received a grant of 3,939 fully-vested shares of common stock as compensation for service as a non-employee director. The shares were awarded at $0.00 per share, bringing Woods’ directly held common stock to 85,795 shares following the award.
The filing also lists indirect holdings of Global Payments common stock held through family-related entities and accounts, including the Woods Family GST Trust, the M Troy Woods 2025 GRAT, two 2016 family trusts, and shares held by Woods’ spouse. One footnote notes that 196,245 shares previously reported as directly held are now held through the 2025 GRAT.
Global Payments Inc. reported voting results from its 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. Investors elected twelve directors to the Board, with each nominee receiving over 218 million votes in favor alongside typical levels of broker non-votes.
Shareholders approved, on an advisory basis, compensation for named executive officers for the year ended December 31, 2025, with about 146.6 million votes for and 79.7 million against. They also ratified Deloitte & Touche LLP as independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2026. A shareholder proposal to grant a right to act by written consent was rejected, with approximately 167.9 million votes against and 58.3 million for.
Vanguard Capital Management reported beneficial ownership of 17,000,921 shares of Global Payments Inc. common stock, representing 6.17% of the class. The filing states Vanguard has sole dispositive power over 17,000,921 shares and sole voting power for 2,218,521 shares. The filing is signed on 04/29/2026.
The Vanguard Group filed Amendment No. 12 to Schedule 13G/A reporting beneficial ownership of 0 shares (0%) of Global Payments Inc common stock. The filing states this follows an internal realignment and disaggregation under SEC Release No. 34-39538 (January 12, 1998), with certain Vanguard subsidiaries now reporting separately.
Sankaran Vivek reported acquisition or exercise transactions in this Form 4 filing.
GLOBAL PAYMENTS INC director Vivek Sankaran received a stock grant of 239 common shares as compensation for serving as a non-employee director. The award was recorded at a price of $80.25 per share on February 19, 2026, leaving him with 239 shares held directly after the transaction.
GLOBAL PAYMENTS INC director Vivek Sankaran filed an initial ownership report on Form 3. This filing establishes his status as an insider of the company but does not list any stock or option transactions. It serves as a baseline disclosure of his reporting obligations as a director.
GLOBAL PAYMENTS INC Chief Accounting Officer Jennifer Bozeman Whyte reported a routine tax-related share disposition. On the transaction date, 42 shares of common stock were transferred back to the company to cover taxes triggered by the vesting of equity awards. This was recorded as a tax-withholding disposition rather than an open-market sale. After the transaction, she directly held 8,873 shares of common stock, indicating the event was small relative to her overall reported holdings.
Global Payments Inc. is asking shareholders to vote at its virtual 2026 annual meeting while highlighting a major strategic transformation completed around the acquisition of Worldpay and the divestiture of its Issuer Solutions and Payroll businesses.
For 2025, the company reports constant currency adjusted net revenue growth of 6%, a 100-basis-point increase in adjusted operating margin, and an 11% rise in adjusted earnings per share. It returned $1.5 billion to shareholders through buybacks and dividends, including $500 million from the Heartland Payroll divestiture, and is targeting $7.5 billion of capital returns between 2025 and 2027 with deleveraging to about 3.0 times by the end of 2027.
Management emphasizes its shift to a pure-play merchant solutions model processing $3.7 trillion in annual payment volume across 94 billion transactions, the launch of its cloud-based Genius point-of-sale platform, expanded use of AI and a unified API orchestration platform, and strengthened governance through board refreshment and enhanced sustainability and human capital programs.