Payments bellwether Visa falls after Q3 revenue miss, drags rivals
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** Shares of world's largest payments processor Visa V.N fall ~4% to $254.14 in morning trading
** V after market on Tuesday reported Q3 revenue that fell short of Wall Street expectations as steep borrowing costs limited consumer spending
** Co posted Q3 revenue of $8.90 bln missing estimates of $8.92 bln, according to LSEG data
** Rival Mastercard's MA.N shares fall 2.3%, while digital payments firms PayPal PYPL.O and Block SQ.N down 1.2% and ~3%, respectively; the companies are set to report quarterly earnings next week
** Visa's payments volume rose 7% in the quarter, slower than 9% growth in the year-ago period
** "Visa framed consumer health as generally stable while acknowledging some softness among lower-end consumers and macro pressures in mainland China," analysts at J.P.Morgan write in a note
** Visa's cross-border volume growth, a gauge of travel demand, also came in at 14%, far less than 22% a year earlier
** At least 11 brokerages slash price target on the stock after results
** Company reported Q3 adjusted profit of $2.42, in line with analysts' expectations
** As of last close, V shares up 1.7% YTD, underperforming a 16.5% gain in the benchmark S&P 500 index .SPX
Reporting by Manya Saini in Bengaluru
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