Technology
Shift4 Payments, Inc.(FOUR)
Live Price
Offline$39.40
+0.59% today
1Y Change
-59.15%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 18, 2026
- Market Cap
- $4.38B
- Revenue Growth
- +25.5%
- EPS Growth
- -65.8%
- Dividend Yield
- 0.0%
Coverage: 247 bars ยท Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 18, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Shift4 Payments, Inc. (FOUR) is a Technology stock with a market cap of $4.38B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $39.40 and down 59.1% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 18, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +25.5%, EPS growth of -65.8%, a dividend yield of 0.0%. What stands out right now is revenue +25.5%, EPS -65.8%, free cash flow +60.7% with operating margin 8.4% and ROIC 3.6%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 27.9 and price/sales 1.0. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a higher-growth but lower-margin setup than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines FOUR price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Technology peers on this page.
Sector Context
How this name stacks up against nearby peers on first-pass metrics.
Revenue Growth
Above sector median
+25.5% vs +11.9% peer median
Operating Margin
Below sector median
+8.4% vs +22.0% peer median
P/E
Above sector median
27.9 vs 18.5 peer median
What Changed This Quarter
Latest report context and the signals most likely to have changed the story.
Latest report is on the board
2026 was reported on May 5, 2026, but the surprise data is still limited.
The operating picture looks softer than before
Revenue is at +25.5% and EPS is at -65.8%, with operating margin around 8.4%.
Earnings Reaction Memory
How the stock has tended to move after recent reports.
Across the last 3 reported quarters, the stock averaged +3.0% over the next 5 trading days and finished higher after 2 of those reports.
View quarter-by-quarter reaction table
| Quarter | EPS ฮ | 1D | 5D | 20D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2026 May 5, 2026 | โ | +4.7% | -0.5% | -1.8% |
2026 Feb 26, 2026 | +1.9% | -9.0% | +1.2% | +0.0% |
2025 Nov 6, 2025 | +0.7% | -1.0% | +8.1% | +3.1% |
Benchmark Edge
FOUR vs SPY, QQQ, and Sector ETFs
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
FOUR
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
FOUR Max Drawdown
-66.64%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Calendar-Year Returns
Uses the longest available daily history for FOUR and SPY.
Company Overview
Shift4 Payments, Inc.
New York Stock Exchange
Shift4 Payments, Inc. provides integrated payment processing and technology solutions in the United States. It provides omni-channel card acceptance and processing solutions, including credit, debit, contactless card, Europay, Mastercard and visa, QR Pay, and mobile wallets, as well as alternative payment methods; merchant acquiring; proprietary omni-channel gateway; complementary software integrations; integrated and mobile point-of-sale (POS) solutions; security and risk management solutions; reporting and analytical tools; and web-store design, hosting, shopping cart management, and fulfillment integration, as well as tokenization, payment device and chargeback management, fraud prevention, and gift card solutions. The company also offers VenueNext that provides mobile ordering, countertop POS, and self-service kiosk services, as well as digital wallet to facilitate food and beverage, merchandise, and loyalty for stadium and entertainment venues; and Shift4Shop, which offers eCommerce solutions, including website builder, shopping cart, product catalog, order management, marketing, search engine optimization, secure hosting, and mobile webstores. In addition, it provides Lighthouse, a cloud-based business intelligence tool that includes customer engagement, social media management, online reputation management, scheduling, and product pricing, as well as reporting and analytics; SkyTab, a hybrid-cloud-based integrated POS solution; SkyTab Mobile, a mobile payment solution; and marketplace technology for integrations into third-party applications. Further, the company offers merchant management, training and education, marketing management, and incentives tracking solutions. Additionally, it provides merchant underwriting, onboarding and activation, training, risk management, and support services; and software integrations and compliance management, and partner support and services. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
- Leadership
- David Taylor Lauber
- IPO Date
- Jun 5, 2020
- Employees
- 4.0k
- Street Address
- 2202 North Irving Street
- Mailing
- Allentown, PA, 18109
- Region
- Allentown, PA, US
- Reporting Currency
- USD
- Investor Line
- 888 276 2108
- Last Updated
- Apr 29, 2026
Key Fundamentals
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Valuation
- P/E
- 27.9
- EV/EBITDA
- 10.0
- Price/Sales
- 1.0
- Price/Book
- 2.0
Growth
- Revenue
- +25.5%
- EPS
- -65.8%
- Free Cash Flow
- +60.7%
Profitability
- Gross Margin
- 34.2%
- Operating Margin
- 8.4%
- Net Margin
- 2.5%
- ROE
- 7.5%
- ROIC
- 3.6%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 3.20
- Current Ratio
- 1.66
Earnings Reports
Latest News
Official Releases
Company announcements and filings-style updates.
Next Step
Keep the research moving
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