Global Payments dividend history

Global Payments's dividend was $1.00 a share in fiscal 2025, up 0.0% on the year before. That was 17.0% of net income.

Dividends, buybacks and capital spending

FY2026 Q2 TTM

Buybacks (TTM): $1.6B
Dividends (TTM): $252M
Returned to shareholders: 225%; of free cash flow
Buybacks, last 3 fiscal years: $3.2B
Diluted share count: +2.3%; year over year
Total shareholder yield: 7.0%; dividends 0.9% + buybacks 6.0% of market value
Sales & admin spending: 54.2%; of revenue
Days sales outstanding: 56 days; receivables vs revenue

Dividends by fiscal year

US$ millions unless shown otherwise. Fiscal years, plus the last twelve months (LTM) when newer.

Global Payments: dividends by fiscal year, annual
Fiscal year	2009May 2009	2010May 2010	2011May 2011	2012May 2012	2013May 2013	2014May 2014	2015May 2015	2016May 2016	2017Dec 2017	2018Dec 2018	2019Dec 2019	2020Dec 2020	2021Dec 2021	2022Dec 2022	2023Dec 2023	2024Dec 2024	2025Dec 2025	LTMJun 2026
Dividend per share	—	$0.040	$0.040	$0.040	$0.040	$0.040	$0.040	$0.040	—	—	$0.113	$0.780	$0.890	$1.00	$1.00	$1.00	$1.00	—
Dividend per share growth	—	—	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	—	—	—	+593.3%	+14.1%	+12.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	—
Dividends paid	6	6	6	6	6	6	5	5	0	0	23	233	260	274	260	253	239	252
Share buybacks	—	98	15	—	—	—	—	—	35	208	311	631	2,534	2,921	418	1,552	1,191	1,600
Dividends ÷ net income	17.2%	3.2%	3.1%	3.4%	2.9%	2.3%	1.9%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	5.4%	39.9%	26.9%	245.7%	26.4%	16.1%	17.0%	—
Dividends ÷ free cash flow	1.9%	1.6%	1.0%	—	4.4%	5.1%	1.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	2.1%	12.4%	11.4%	16.8%	13.8%	10.6%	11.7%	30.6%

Dividend per share is the amount declared for the fiscal year as stated in the company's filings (including any special dividend), restated for stock splits and checked against the cash dividends paid. Dividends paid and buybacks are cash amounts; the last-twelve-months column can include an extra payment when a quarter-end date moves.

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Figures from Global Payments's SEC filings (10-K and 10-Q), retrieved October 20, 2026. How we read and check them: methodology and data sources. Not investment advice. Back to Global Payments.