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.
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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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Analyst 52W Price Targets
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Firm-level rating actions
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| Firm | Rating | Prior rating | Action | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RBC Capital | Sector Perform | Sector Perform | Maintain | Aug 31, 2026 |
| Wolfe Research | Outperform | Outperform | Maintain | Aug 25, 2026 |
| Cantor Fitzgerald | Overweight | Overweight | Maintain | Aug 10, 2026 |
| UBS | Neutral | Neutral | Maintain | Aug 6, 2026 |
| Keefe, Bruyette & Woods | Outperform | Outperform | Maintain | Aug 6, 2026 |
| JP Morgan | Overweight | Overweight | Maintain | Aug 6, 2026 |
| Morgan Stanley | Overweight | Overweight | Maintain | Jul 28, 2026 |
| Baird | Outperform | Outperform | Maintain | Mar 31, 2026 |
| Mizuho | Neutral | Neutral | Maintain | Feb 6, 2026 |
| Oppenheimer | Outperform | Outperform | Maintain | Jan 12, 2026 |
| Raymond James | Outperform | Outperform | Maintain | Aug 7, 2025 |
| Wells Fargo | Equal Weight | Equal Weight | Maintain | Apr 24, 2025 |
| Barclays | Overweight | Overweight | Maintain | Apr 14, 2025 |
| BMO Capital | Outperform | Outperform | Maintain | Dec 13, 2024 |
| Citigroup | Buy | Buy | Maintain | Nov 14, 2024 |
| Jefferies | Buy | Buy | Maintain | Oct 16, 2024 |
| B of A Securities | Buy | Buy | Maintain | Oct 15, 2024 |
| Evercore ISI Group | Outperform | Outperform | Maintain | Jun 25, 2024 |
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.
| Firm | Analyst | 52W target | Price when posted | Upside | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scotiabank | Analyst unavailable | $536 | $404.81 | +33.2% | Sep 2, 2026 |
| RBC Capital | Analyst unavailable | $438 | $407.88 | +8.8% | Aug 31, 2026 |
| Wolfe Research | Analyst unavailable | $530 | $413.92 | +31.7% | Aug 25, 2026 |
| Cantor Fitzgerald | Ramsey El-Assal | $480 | $397.2 | +19.3% | Aug 10, 2026 |
| Morgan Stanley | Analyst unavailable | $455 | $397.55 | +13.1% | Aug 7, 2026 |
| Robert W. Baird | David Koning | $475 | $394.15 | +18.0% | Aug 6, 2026 |
| UBS | Analyst unavailable | $415 | $390.5 | +3.1% | Aug 6, 2026 |
| RBC Capital | Analyst unavailable | $423 | $394.53 | +5.1% | Aug 6, 2026 |
| Wolfe Research | Darrin Peller | $475 | $394.53 | +18.0% | Aug 6, 2026 |
| Raymond James | Madison Suhr | $442 | $394.53 | +9.8% | Aug 6, 2026 |
| Morgan Stanley | Michael Infante | $415 | $379.71 | +3.1% | Jul 28, 2026 |
| Wolfe Research | Analyst unavailable | $450 | $359.82 | +11.8% | Jun 3, 2026 |
| Loop Capital Markets | Analyst unavailable | $406 | $348.5 | +0.9% | May 18, 2026 |
| Morgan Stanley | Analyst unavailable | $400 | $343.99 | -0.6% | May 10, 2026 |
| Oppenheimer | Analyst unavailable | $388 | $338.65 | -3.6% | May 8, 2026 |
| Raymond James | John Davis | $361 | $324.33 | -10.3% | Mar 5, 2026 |
| UBS | Analyst unavailable | $380 | $354.96 | -5.6% | Feb 10, 2026 |
| Mizuho Securities | Dan Dolev | $340 | $335 | -15.5% | Feb 6, 2026 |
| RBC Capital | Analyst unavailable | $363 | $331.01 | -9.8% | Feb 5, 2026 |
| Oppenheimer | Analyst unavailable | $378 | $331.13 | -6.1% | Feb 5, 2026 |
| Morgan Stanley | Michael Infante | $390 | $300.28 | -3.1% | Feb 5, 2026 |
| Cantor Fitzgerald | Ramsey El-Assal | $385 | $324 | -4.3% | Jan 26, 2026 |
| Morgan Stanley | Analyst unavailable | $379 | $320.52 | -5.8% | Jan 26, 2026 |
| Oppenheimer | Rayna Kumar | $380 | $297.39 | -5.6% | Dec 5, 2025 |
| Williams Trading | Trevor Williams | $300 | $260.35 | -25.5% | Nov 3, 2025 |
| Morgan Stanley | James Faucette | $356 | $301.7 | -11.5% | Aug 10, 2025 |
| Raymond James | John Davis | $392 | $304.5 | -2.6% | Aug 7, 2025 |
| Robert W. Baird | David Koning | $440 | $350.59 | +9.3% | Jun 10, 2025 |
| BMO Capital | Rufus Hone | $400 | $366.01 | -0.6% | Nov 8, 2024 |
| Mizuho Securities | Dan Dolev | $265 | $335.47 | -34.2% | Oct 29, 2024 |
| Morgan Stanley | James Faucette | $325 | $338.92 | -19.2% | Oct 29, 2024 |
| Williams Trading | Trevor Williams | $375 | $306.88 | -6.8% | Sep 18, 2024 |
| Williams Trading | Trevor Williams | $350 | $297.52 | -13.0% | Jul 18, 2024 |
| Barclays | Ramsey El-Assal | $330 | $267.15 | -18.0% | Jun 22, 2024 |
| Wells Fargo | Andrew Bauch | $285 | $257.92 | -29.2% | Jun 5, 2024 |
| Barclays | Ramsey El-Assal | $350 | $283.44 | -13.0% | May 13, 2024 |
| BMO Capital | Rufus Hone | $350 | $290.74 | -13.0% | May 9, 2024 |
| RBC Capital | Daniel Perlin | $310 | $304.5 | -23.0% | May 9, 2024 |
| Barclays | Ramsey El-Assal | $355 | $296.29 | -11.8% | Apr 16, 2024 |
| Williams Trading | Trevor Williams | $355 | $305.72 | -11.8% | Apr 12, 2024 |
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Snapshot as of publicationCorpay, 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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