Visa Inc - Class A Shares (V)

Visa is a global payments company which executes fund transfers through their branded debit and credit cards. It's estimated Visa carries approximately 38% of credit and 61% of debit card transactions in the United States.

The VisaNet carries an estimated 100 billion transactions annually through every region in the world, worth in excess of 5 trillion dollars.

They have a spectacular record for increasing dividend payments since 2007, growing from nothing to between 19% and 110% per year since. They have a very high dividend cover to support this.

January 28, 2015, Visa’s board of directors declared a four-for-one split of its class A common stock. On March 18, 2015, each class A common stockholder of record at the close of business on February 13, 2015 (the “Record Date”), will receive a dividend of three additional shares for every share held on the Record Date. Dividend History has been adjusted to reflect this four-for-one split