Shift4 Payments is a software - infrastructure business based in the US. Shift4 Payments shares (FOUR) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $82.36 – an increase of 2.59% over the previous week. Shift4 Payments employs 4,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $3.3 billion.
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| Latest market close | $82.36 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $56.10 - $127.50 |
| 50-day moving average | $88.28 |
| 200-day moving average | $91.80 |
| Wall St. target price | $114.52 |
| PE ratio | 26.495 |
| Dividend yield | N/A |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $3.03 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $82.36 from 2025-05-02
| 1 week (2025-04-25) | 2.59% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-04-04) | 13.60% |
| 3 months (2025-02-04) | -30.30% |
| 6 months (2024-11-04) | -8.67% |
| 1 year (2024-05-03) | 38.70% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2023-05-03) | 25.11% |
| 3 years (2022-05-03) | 54.41% |
| 5 years (2020-04-30) | N/A |
Valuing Shift4 Payments stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Shift4 Payments's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Shift4 Payments's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 26x. In other words, Shift4 Payments shares trade at around 26x recent earnings.
That's comparable to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29).
Shift4 Payments's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 0.7839. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Shift4 Payments's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Shift4 Payments's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $487.4 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Shift4 Payments's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $3.3 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 10.53% |
| Gross profit TTM | $973.1 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 4.01% |
| Return on equity TTM | 31.23% |
| Profit margin | 6.89% |
| Book value | $11.65 |
| Market Capitalization | $7.2 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
We're not expecting Shift4 Payments to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Over the last 12 months, Shift4 Payments's shares have ranged in value from as little as $56.1 up to $127.5. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Shift4 Payments's is 1.802. This would suggest that Shift4 Payments's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Shift4 Payments, Inc. engages in the provision of software and payment processing solutions in the United States and internationally. The company offers payments platform, which provides omni channel card acceptance; and processing solutions across multiple payment types, including credit, debit, contactless card, Europay, MasterCard and Visa, QR Pay, and mobile wallets, as well as alternative payment methods, such as Apple Pay, Google Pay, Alipay, and WeChat Pay. It provides technology solutions, such as SkyTab POS, which provides purpose-built POS workstations; SkyTab Mobile, which provides pay-at-the-table, order-at-the-table, delivery, customer feedback, and email marketing solutions; SkyTab Venue, which provides mobile ordering, countertop POS, self-service kiosk, and digital wallet solutions; Lighthouse, a cloud-based suite of business intelligence tools that includes customer engagement, social media management, online reputation management, scheduling and product pricing, as well as extensive reporting and analytics; The Giving Block, a cryptocurrency donation marketplace; Shift4Shop, an ecommerce platform that creates a webstore and tools to manage product catalog, order fulfillment and inventory management, search engine optimization, and secure hosting; and Marketplace that enables integrations into third-party applications, as well as loyalty and inventory management. In addition, the company provides merchant operations and support services, including underwriting, onboarding, and activation; training; risk management; and support. It also provides software partner operations and support services, including software integrations and compliance management; partner support; and partner services. The company distributes its products through independent software vendors, internal sales and support network, enterprises, and value-added resellers.
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