SHIFT4 PAYMENTS, INC.
At today's price, SHIFT4 PAYMENTS, INC. (FOUR) is priced for +9.7% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
Shift4 trades near $39.41, close to a 52-week low after 2026 earnings guidance disappointed, in a 52-week range that ran above $108. The market has sharply repriced a payments company that is still growing fast. The valuation now looks undemanding. The price works out to about 26 times operating income and implies only about 7% operating growth a year for five years, which the framework reads as within range, modest for a company growing revenue near 30%, processing $56 billion of quarterly vol
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342 institutional managers reported holding FOUR in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 85% of the company; the top 10 hold 50%. 53 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, UBS, among others. On the short side, 16.7M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 21% of shares outstanding (8.8 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at FOUR over the trailing three years: 2024: 4 buys totaling $11.33M; 2025: 2 buys totaling $16.27M; 2026: 4 buys totaling $17.67M. 11 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
FOUR's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-05 | +1.1% | -14.7% |
| 2023-11-10 | +16.5% | +30.3% |
| 2024-03-01 | +18.0% | -28.9% |
| 2024-05-11 | +10.8% | +8.3% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
FOUR's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-13 (items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01); 2026-06-17 (items 5.07, 9.01); 2026-05-07 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-03-09 (items 5.02, 7.01); 2026-02-26 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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