13. 65%
Visa's pretax
operating margin
(ttm)
17%
Median pretax operating
margin of the 100 biggest
S&P 500 companies (ttm)
First, Visa has incredibly wide profit margins. Its
operating margin over the past 12 months was 65%.
That's 3.8 times wider than the typical large cap stock!
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