October 2026
Largest Payment Infrastructure Public Companies in the US
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
Visa, Mastercard, American Express, PayPal and Fiserv.
 | Visa Inc. is a global payments technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California, that operates the world's second-largest card payment network after China UnionPay. Its origins lie in BankAmericard, launched by Bank of America in Fresno on 18 September 1958; the network was rebranded Visa in 1976 and the company listed in 2008. Visa does not issue cards, extend credit or set consumer rates and fees; instead it provides financial institutions with Visa-branded payment products and processes transactions over VisaNet, which runs from four data centers. In 2025 its network handled about 257.5 billion transactions worth US$14.2 trillion. For fiscal 2024 it reported revenue of US$35.9 billion and net income of US$19.7 billion with about 31,600 employees, earned from service, data processing and international transaction fees. Ryan McInerney is chief executive. Visa Canada joined the consortium that bought Aeroplan in 2019. | $402 | +17% | $754B | $763B | 19.1x | 29.3x | ||
| Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE: MA) is a US payments technology company headquartered at 2000 Purchase Street in Purchase, New York. It operates a global card payment network that switches transactions between issuing banks, acquirers, merchants, consumers, businesses and governments in more than 220 countries and territories, and rather than issuing cards itself it provides transaction processing and related payment services. It also sells value-added services and solutions, including security and authentication, consumer engagement and business insights, and its acquisitions include Vocalink in 2016 for $920 million, Brighterion in 2017 and Recorded Future in 2024 for $2.65 billion. In 2025 gross dollar volume on its network reached $10.6 trillion, up 9% in local currency, and net revenue was $32.8 billion, up 16%, with operating income of $18.9 billion, net income of $15.0 billion and about 39,800 employees. It earns fees on payment volume, switched transactions and cross-border activity, net of rebates and incentives paid to customers, plus fees for value-added services. The company traces its origins to the Interbank Card Association, formed in 1966 by Karl Hinke of Marine Midland Bank and other banks, and went public on the NYSE on May 25, 2006; Michael Miebach is chief executive. | $610 | +10% | $534B | $547B | 16.7x | 26.8x | ||
| American Express is a New York City-based global payments and financial services company headquartered at 200 Vesey Street. It issues charge and credit cards to consumers and businesses, runs its own card network and merchant business, and provides travel and financial services through units such as Travel Related Services. It earns discount revenue from merchants, card fees and interest on card loans. In 2025 it reported revenue of USD 72.2 billion and net income of USD 10.8 billion with about 76,800 employees, and it had 141.2 million cards in force at the end of 2023. The company traces its origins to 18 March 1850, when express businesses owned by Henry Wells, William Fargo and John Warren Butterfield merged in Buffalo, New York. It sold half of its corporate travel arm, American Express Global Business Travel, to a Certares-led group in 2014 and retains a stake of about 33.5%. Its Travel Related Services subsidiary invested in Portable Software, later Concur Technologies, in 1998. | $313 | -13% | $210B | $222B | 3.1x | - | ||
| PayPal was spun off from eBay in 2015 and provides electronic payment solutions to merchants and consumers, with a focus on online transactions. The company had 434 million active accounts at the end of 2024. The company also owns Venmo, a person-to-person payment platform. | BNPL+3 | $56 | -19% | $47B | $50B | 1.5x | 7.0x | |
| Fiserv is a financial technology company headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that provides account processing, digital banking, card issuing and merchant acquiring services to banks, credit unions and businesses. Founded in 1984, it built its core banking business through acquisitions such as Information Technology Inc. of Lincoln, Nebraska in 1995, which brought the Premier account-processing platform. Fiserv processes debit and credit card transactions, loyalty programmes, loans, electronic bill payments, ACH and wire transfers, check deposits and ATM transactions on behalf of financial institutions, with a long-standing base among small and midsize US banks. Its 2019 acquisition of First Data for $22 billion added a large merchant-acquiring business, including the Clover point-of-sale platform for small businesses and the Carat payments platform for large enterprises. The company earns recurring processing and transaction fees, software and service fees and hardware sales. In 2025 it reported revenue of $19.8 billion, operating income of $4.38 billion and about 38,000 employees, and roughly 85% of 2024 revenue came from the US and Canada. Takis Georgakopoulos became chief executive in 2025 after Frank Bisignano left to run the US Social Security Administration, and in November 2025 the shares moved from the NYSE to Nasdaq under the ticker FISV. | $47 | -29% | $25B | $53B | 2.5x | 5.9x | ||
| Circle Internet Group Inc is a financial technology firm engaged in digital currencies and public blockchains for payments, commerce, and financial applications. The company's platform is a full-stack, internet financial platform business, organized around three pillars: Arc Blockchain and Developer Infrastructure, Circle Digital Assets and Services, and Circle Applications. | $82 | -35% | $21B | $19B | 6.9x | (261.2x) | ||
| ACI Worldwide Inc develops, markets and installs a portfolio of software products focused on facilitating electronic payments. The firm also leverages its distribution network in the Americas; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, or EMEA; and Asia-Pacific regions to sell software developed by third parties. ACI software products process payment transactions for retail banking clients, billers such as utilities and healthcare providers, and community banks and credit unions. ACI's customers are financial institutions all over the world, but majority of the revenue is generated in the United States and EMEA regions. | $55 | +15% | $5.5B | $6.2B | 3.5x | 13.6x | ||
| Paymentus Holdings Inc provides electronic bill presentment and payment services, enterprise customer communication and self-service revenue management to billers through a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), secure, omni-channel technology platform. The platform integrates with a biller's financial and operational systems to provide secure and flexible processing of payments, including credit cards, debit cards, eChecks, and digital wallets, across multiple channels such as online, mobile, IVR, call centers, chatbots, and voice-based assistants. The company generates the majority of its revenue from payment transaction fees processed through its platform. Geographically, it derives the maximum revenue from the United States. | $32 | +37% | $4B | $3.6B | 3.0x | 31.2x | ||
| Crane NXT Co is a industrial technology company that provides proprietary and trusted technology solutions to secure, detect, and authenticate what matters to its customers. It is a pioneer in proprietary micro-optics technology for securing physical products, and its sophisticated electronic equipment and associated software leverages proprietary core capabilities with detection and sensing technologies. The company operates in two segments which are Crane Payment Innovations (CPI) and Security and Authentication Technologies. | $58 | -8% | $3.4B | $4.6B | 2.8x | 13.3x | ||
| GPGI Inc is a diversified holding platform comprising businesses operating in multiple industries. The platform focuses on acquiring, owning, and scaling operating companies. It currently includes CompoSecure and Husky Technologies. CompoSecure provides technology and manufacturing solutions related to metal payment cards, security, and authentication. Its products and services are used by financial institutions, fintech companies, and other customers. Husky designs and manufactures industrial equipment and provides aftermarket services. Its equipment is used in the production of plastic products, including beverage and food containers, medical devices, and consumer electronics components. | $11 | -34% | $3.1B | $3.1B | 51.5x | (13.8x) | ||
| Marqeta is an Oakland-based payments technology company founded in 2010. Its open application-programming interfaces let businesses create, issue and manage physical, virtual and tokenized payment cards. Customers configure authorization rules, funding flows, spend controls and transaction data without building a card-processing stack from scratch. The platform serves fintech companies, digital banks, marketplaces, lenders and large enterprises operating card programs. Marqeta earns processing and platform revenue tied to card activity and contracted services. It expanded internationally after raising multiple venture rounds and completed its public listing in 2021. LionBird is listed among Marqeta's early investors and continues to identify the company in its portfolio. | $18 | -2% | $1.9B | $1.2B | 1.9x | 86.2x | ||
| CPI Card Group Inc is a payment technology company engaged in providing financial payment card solutions and services. It offers credit, debit, and prepaid cards. The business segments of the group are Debit and Credit, which produces Financial Payment Cards and provides integrated card services to card-issuing banks in the United States, and Prepaid Debit, which provides integrated card services to Prepaid Debit Card program managers in the United States and Others. It derives key revenue from the Debit and Credit segment. | $25 | +63% | $294M | $548M | 1.0x | 7.1x | ||
| Paysafe Ltd is an integrated payments platform. Its core purpose is to enable businesses and consumers to connect and transact seamlessly through capabilities in payment processing, digital wallet, and online cash solutions. The company's reportable segments are Merchant Solutions and Digital Wallets. The Merchant Solutions segment, which derives maximum revenue, services markets in North America, Canada and Europe. The Digital Wallets segment services markets in Europe, UK, North America and Latin America. It derives a majority of revenue from the USA followed by Germany, the UK, and all other countries. | $5 | -52% | $281M | $2.6B | 1.5x | 7.6x | ||
| Usio Inc is a United States-based company that provides integrated electronic payment services, including credit and debit card-based processing services and transaction processing via the Automated Clearing House, or ACH network to billers and retailers. The Company also has an additional wholly-owned subsidiary, which is the entity for Output Solutions operations. | $3 | +124% | $91M | $89M | 1.0x | (218.1x) | ||
| Median | $51 | -5% | $4.8B | $5.4B | 2.9x | 7.6x |
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