Visa Inc. (V)

A powerful company. Hundreds of millions of people have their cards, so it is going to be very difficult if not impossible to displace that. There are a couple of trends that favour this company. Made a huge deal to buy EuroVisa, and they are actively working to increase card penetration in Asia, were penetration is only 20%. The cashless society is becoming a reality. An expensive stock, but has a huge growth runway in front of them. Dividend yield of 0.68%.

It consolidated in 2014 and broke out, a proper breakout. A perfect trend channel. He likes to buy this kind closer to the bottom of the trend line.

MasterCard or Visa? You could buy either, but thinks this one has a better footprint. Both are good. The whole idea of facilitating payments is a wave of the future, and will probably get to a world where there is limited or no cash usage. These companies are natural choices. Both are accepted all over the world.

A very, very nice chart. A series of higher lows and higher highs. This should continue to go higher. He wouldn’t be surprised to see this go to $90, but check your valuation. If it gets too expensive, maybe take some off the table.

A play on digital transactions, and this is the “front end” for almost all digital transactions. Digital transactions are growing at a very rapid pace. It is hitting a new relative strength high versus the market. The financials group is a group that you want to be in.

A little bit expensive here. A great, long term company, and you just try to buy on dips. You’re not going to get hurt on this one.

HD-N vs. V-N. Don’t focus on the current yield. He thinks V-N will deliver 20% dividend growth going forward. HD-N is also a high dividend grower. You need to decide which business you want. He would go with V-N because it is the largest electronic payment network in the world. They just completed the European acquisition and it should be very accretive.

We are less and less of a cash-based system, and this is one of those companies that is growing. Also, their international revenues are increasing. She sees this as a long-term, secular upward trend, and a good Buy.

(Market Call Minute.) He would rather buy one of the other individuals further back along the supply chain within fintech such as Total Systems Services (TSS-N) or Ventif (?).

His concern right now is where do merchant fees go? In Europe, they have been a bit more aggressive in pushing them down. There could be more to go. With all the technology changing and how you pay, that is a risk for them. If we had a good market crack and the price went down, he would look at this.

This and MasterCard (MC-N) are the great duopolies of the world. Both have introduced their debit versions of their credit card franchises. Credit card transactions are on the rise. They recently acquired Visa Europe. If you have a 3-5 year horizon, this is a good purchase and it will give you a decent rate of return.

A great business in a very powerful longer-term secular trend. We are more and more of a cashless society. Valuation is not cheap. There may be some longer-term concerns, that as people find new ways to pay for things their dominant franchise could be at risk. Thinks the company will be able to find ways to play in other spaces as well, such as buying something like PayPal to get in the electronic payment mechanism. Any time there is a pullback would be a good time to buy this. A very good, long term business.

This and MasterCard (MA-N) trade in the mid-20 multiples and are growing nicely. His reticence is that they are priced as though they are going to stay really great financial businesses. His worry in the financial sector is not just with the banking sector, but also with the card sector. There is a lot of new FinTech today that could be highly disruptive. He would not be a buyer of either right now because of the valuations.

(Market Call Minute) Loves it, thinks it is a wonderful company. It is basically a toll road on every commercial transaction which takes place in a retail environment. He likes toll roads.

The dispute with Walmart (WMT-N) is a small deal, but the importance of the issue is for the potential of this becoming a much bigger issue internationally. Visa has a very good position and is the #1 card globally. It does more transactions and business than American Express (AXP-N), MasterCard (MA-N) and Discovery combined. Recently struck a deal to buy Visa Europe, which he feels is going to be very additive. Europeans tend to use more cash and less plastic, so there is lots of opportunity to catch some business there.