Visa Inc. (V)☆

Visa operates the world’s largest electronic-payments network, earning fees by processing card transactions between banks and merchants.

V is a member of the S&P 500. It sits in the Financials sector. That sector covers banks, insurers and capital-markets firms at the center of the economy.

Visa Inc. trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol V. The most recent market data puts the share price at about $402.00. That is up 0.56% on the session. At that price the company is worth roughly $754.70B.

Over the past 52 weeks, V has traded between $293.89 and $404.74. Shares change hands at a trailing price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of about 34.2. The P/E ratio sets the share price against a year of earnings. A higher number means the market is paying more for each dollar the company earns. V also pays a dividend. It yields around 0.67% at the current price.

V is one of the larger names in the Financials sector, so investors follow it closely. It tends to move with the rest of the sector. This page sums up each V story as it breaks, and tags it bullish, bearish or neutral.

Size matters here as well. The S&P 500 is weighted by market value. V is large enough that its own share price nudges the whole index. So it is worth watching even for investors who only hold index funds.