Corpay, Inc. · CPAY · FY2025 Q1 · Calendar Q2 2025

Corpay Maintains Guidance as Payments Growth Broadens

The supplied analysis supports a constructive but conditional thesis: Corpay's growth plan is backed by corporate-payments momentum, Cross-Border expansion, and portfolio actions, while the investment case still depends on execution and the durability of recent volume trends.

Reported After market closeNYSETechnology $26.59B market cap
80quality score

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Reported versus consensus
Reported EPS — Consensus $4.51
EPS surprise — Reported versus consensus
Reported revenue — Consensus $1.02B
Revenue surprise — Reported versus consensus

Market reaction

event-close to next-session close
Stock move -0.1% Event window
SPY move +0.4% Same window
Abnormal move -0.6% Stock minus SPY
Volume 1.7× Versus trailing sessions
Subsequent drift +1.6% Up to 20 sessions
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What changed

The quarter added a Mastercard strategic partnership and investment, a minority investment in Avid with a call option, and a plan to divest three non-core businesses. Management also maintained full-year guidance and emphasized Cross-Border, payables, vehicle payments, and further acquisition activity.

Guidance delta

Maintained: management left full-year guidance unchanged.

Key takeaways

  • Management described Q1 revenue and cash EPS as ahead of expectations while maintaining full-year guidance.
  • The Mastercard partnership is intended to support Cross-Border growth; Corpay also invested in Avid with an option to acquire the remainder.
  • Portfolio reshaping is part of the plan: Corpay expects divestitures to generate liquidity while continuing to pursue payments acquisitions.
  • The main counterweights are tariff and macro uncertainty, integration execution, and questions around the divestiture and partnership outcomes.

Management priorities

  • Expand Cross-Border and multi-currency offerings, including through the Mastercard relationship.
  • Launch the UK payables product, deepen enterprise payments, and continue US vehicle-payments sales and cross-sell efforts.
  • Evaluate further corporate-payments acquisitions, including the potential exercise of the Avid call option, while executing planned divestitures.

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Earnings History

Estimate Beat Miss Match
CPAY EPS earnings history estimate and actual scatter chart 9 reported fiscal quarters and 3 future estimate-only quarters. Q1 '24 estimate $4.09 Q1 '24 actual $4.10, match Q2 '24 estimate $4.51 Q2 '24 actual $4.55, beat Q3 '24 estimate $4.97 Q3 '24 actual $5.00, beat Q2 '25 estimate $5.12 Q2 '25 actual $5.13, match Q3 '25 estimate $5.63 Q3 '25 actual $5.70, beat Q4 '25 estimate $5.95 Q4 '25 actual $6.04, beat Q1 '26 estimate $5.47 Q1 '26 actual $5.80, beat Q2 '26 estimate $6.58 Q2 '26 actual $7.00, beat Q3 '26 estimate $7.17 Q4 '26 estimate $7.37 Q1 '27 estimate $6.85
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Analyst Consensus ?

ConsensusBuy18 ratings
Bullish1477.8%
Neutral422.2%
Bearish00.0%

Analyst 52W Price Targets

$402.43Current
$285Low
$405.57Average
$536High

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Firm-level rating actions

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FirmRatingPrior ratingActionDate
RBC Capital Sector Perform Sector PerformMaintainAug 31, 2026
Wolfe Research Outperform OutperformMaintainAug 25, 2026
Cantor Fitzgerald Overweight OverweightMaintainAug 10, 2026
UBS Neutral NeutralMaintainAug 6, 2026
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Outperform OutperformMaintainAug 6, 2026
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Named analyst price targets

Upside is calculated against the persisted current price $402.43. FMP does not supply a rating on these named-analyst rows.

FirmAnalyst52W targetPrice when postedUpsideDate
ScotiabankAnalyst unavailable$536$404.81 +33.2%Sep 2, 2026
RBC CapitalAnalyst unavailable$438$407.88 +8.8%Aug 31, 2026
Wolfe ResearchAnalyst unavailable$530$413.92 +31.7%Aug 25, 2026
Cantor FitzgeraldRamsey El-Assal$480$397.2 +19.3%Aug 10, 2026
Morgan StanleyAnalyst unavailable$455$397.55 +13.1%Aug 7, 2026
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Company context

Snapshot as of publication

Corpay, Inc. operates as a global financial technology firm, delivering payment solutions that assist both businesses and individual consumers in efficiently managing a diverse range of expenditures. Its expertise primarily covers vehicle-related costs, corporate financial transactions, and lodging expenses, with operations spanning the United States, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and numerous other international markets. Among its specialized services are comprehensive vehicle payment offerings, which include provisions for fuel, road tolls, parking fees, fleet maintenance, and long-distance transportation. The company also supplies prepaid vouchers and cards for food and transit requirements.…

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