Is Wall Avenue Bullish or Bearish?

Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based Fiserv, Inc. (FI) gives funds and fintech companies. It operates via Service provider Acceptance, Monetary Expertise, and Funds and Community segments. With a market cap of $72.4 billion, Fiserv’s operations span the Americas, Europe, the Center East, Africa, and the Indo-Pacific.

The fintech large has considerably underperformed the broader market over the previous 12 months. Fiserv inventory costs have plunged 35.1% on a YTD foundation and 16.8% over the previous 12 months, lagging behind the S&P 500 Index’s ($SPX) rally of 8.6% in 2025 and 20.1% over the previous 52 weeks.

Narrowing the main focus, Fiserv has additionally underperformed the industry-focused World X FinTech ETF’s (FINX) 4.9% uptick in 2025 and 30.2% surge over the previous 52-week interval.

In simply the previous month, FI inventory has declined nearly 22%. In Q2 2025, pushed by the expansion in product gross sales and processing & service revenues, the corporate’s general topline for the quarter elevated by a wholesome 8% year-over-year to $5.5 billion, lacking the Avenue estimates by a tiny margin. In the meantime, pushed by stable margin enlargement, its adjusted EPS surged roughly 16% year-over-year to $2.47, surpassing the consensus estimates by 2.5%.

Throughout the first half of 2025, Fiserv has maintained an natural income progress of round 8%. Nevertheless, the corporate has narrowed its full-year natural income progress steering downwards, lowering its steering to 10%, down from the prior vary of 10% to 12%. This made buyers jittery and led to its inventory costs plunging 13.9% in a single buying and selling session, following the earnings launch.

For the complete fiscal 2025, ending in December, analysts anticipate FI to ship an adjusted EPS of $10.22, up 16.1% year-over-year. Additional, the corporate has a stable earnings shock historical past. It has surpassed the Avenue’s bottom-line estimates in every of the previous 4 quarters.

The inventory has a consensus “Sturdy Purchase” ranking general. Of the 36 analysts masking the inventory, opinions embrace 27 “Sturdy Buys,” 4 “Reasonable Buys,” 4 “Holds,” and one “Sturdy Promote” ranking.

This configuration is barely extra optimistic than a month in the past, when two analysts gave “Sturdy Promote” suggestions.