Shift4 Payments is the payment processor behind the scenes at restaurants, stadiums, and online stores, handling card swipes, taps, and QR payments from order to settlement.
Revenue hit USD 4.18B in 2025, with gross margin at 34.16% and net margin at 2.85% — a high-volume, low-margin business where fees per transaction add up.
Shift4's integrated POS and gateway lock merchants into a single system, but competitors like Adyen, Fiserv, and Toast offer similar bundles, and price pressure from PayPal and Stripe weakens pricing power.
Hold (sector percentile 52) — value A, growth B-, profitability C, momentum C-, revisions B. Updated daily, sector-relative, identical for every user.
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Q2 revenue and EPS beat, but FY26 EPS guidance misses, triggering sharp selloff.
Revenue $1.3B beat, adj EPS $1.32 beat, but FY26 EPS guide below consensus
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May 13 buy ~$15.9M; plus Mar $13.7M & Aug '25 $18M, repeated insider buying
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