Global Payments Inc.

The full register, from 13F filings

The Register tab above is hand research: a dozen holders, each traced to the filing it came from. This asks the same question of the whole market for the quarter ended 31-mar-2026, where 784 managers reported a position. Broad where the research is deep, and shallow in the ways a 13F always is.

Built from 13F filings, which report US listed, long, US custodied positions only. A register from this source is a floor rather than a level: a holder's true position can be far larger, as BlackRock's ASML stake shows at 1.28m shares in a 13F against 26.3m in its 13G/A. Holdings held through derivatives, outside US custody, or below a manager's reporting obligation do not appear. Where a holder is marked as a family, its total sums several separate filing entities and describes something no single filing describes; the constituent entities and their share counts are listed so the total can be checked. That roll-up can legitimately exceed the family's own Schedule 13G, because a 13G is filed by one legal entity: Vanguard reports Alphabet through ten advisory entities, and The Vanguard Group Inc itself reported zero after its January 2026 disaggregation.

What a reader needs to know to read these numbers

• Global Payments completed the Worldpay acquisition (100% from FIS and GTCR affiliates) and divested its Issuer Solutions business to FIS, both closing 9 Jan 2026. Consideration paid to GTCR for its Worldpay interest was approximately $6.0 billion cash plus 42.8 million newly issued Global Payments shares; that stock grant is the source of GTCR W Aggregator LP's 43,268,041-share strategic position (15.5% per the Jan 2026 Schedule 13G cited in the 2026 proxy, 16.35% of the larger post-transaction share count by Q2 2026). Consideration Global Payments RECEIVED for divesting Issuer Solutions was cash plus FIS's own ownership interest in Worldpay (which was extinguished into the 100%-owned Worldpay entity), not FIS common stock, so Global Payments does not hold FIS shares from this transaction: see unknowns for the one exception found (Visa preferred shares).
• Worldpay itself is now a 100%-owned consolidated subsidiary of Global Payments and is therefore excluded from holdings under the brief's 'wholly owned operating subsidiary' exclusion.
• Global Payments' equity-method investments (which include the 45% China UnionPay Data Services stake) are reported as a single combined balance folded into 'Other noncurrent assets' ($2,186.8 million at 30 Jun 2026, $1,868.8 million at 31 Dec 2025) on the face of the balance sheet; no per-investee equity-method carrying value is disclosed anywhere in the Q2 2026 10-Q or the FY2025 10-K. Per rule 9, no dollar value or share count was assigned to the China UnionPay holding; only the 45% ownership percentage (stated in words in the FY2025 10-K MD&A) is recorded.
• Five majority-owned, consolidated merchant-acquiring joint ventures were identified from Exhibit 21.1 to the FY2025 10-K (Spain and Poland, via noncontrolling-interest footnotes) and from Note 9 (Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests) of the FY2025 10-K and Q2 2026 10-Q (Germany, Greece, Chile). None of the historically cited bank partners (CaixaBank, Comerica, CIBC, HSBC, Erste Group) appear by name in the FY2025 10-K, the Q2 2026 10-Q, or Exhibit 21.1; the Spain JV's name 'Comercia Global Payments' strongly implies the CaixaBank relationship the brief flags, and the Greek JV's XBRL tag 'NBGPay' implies a National Bank of Greece relationship, but neither filing states the counterparty outright, so no partner bank name is asserted as fact.
• Register self-gate (computed from this file, matching the chart's own arithmetic: sum raw shares, no rows have rolls_up_into so nothing is reduced): 14 rows, 171,142,500 shares, 64.68% of 264,618,390 shares outstanding. This is above the 55% ceiling in the brief's guidance, but it is a genuine finding, not a mixed-instrument or double-counting defect: GTCR W Aggregator LP alone (43,268,041 sh, 16.35%) is an unusually large single strategic block created by the Jan 2026 Worldpay stock consideration. Excluding GTCR, the remaining 13 institutional/insider rows sum to 127,874,459 shares, 48.32% of shares outstanding, which is a normal concentration for a well-covered large-cap 13F register. Every row was checked individually against its own Q2 2026 13F-HR or, for the officers group, the 2026 DEF 14A; no duplicate holder or mixed instrument was found.
• Vanguard case: parent CIK 0000102909 filed Form 13F-NT (a notice carrying no holdings) for Q2 2026, confirmed directly from its own EDGAR filing history. Per the brief, the successor entities ARE the position, so all 8 successor entities named in this project's own GPN register snapshot were swept and summed from their individual Q2 2026 13F-HR information tables: Vanguard Capital Management LLC (CIK 0002100119, 14,713,333 sh), Vanguard Portfolio Management LLC (0002100121, 9,900,889 sh), Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Co (0000933478, 1,263,345 sh), Vanguard Global Advisers, LLC (0001811242, 484,469 sh), Vanguard Asset Management, Ltd (0001680208, 380,803 sh), Vanguard Investments Australia, Ltd. (0001550100, 105,153 sh), Vanguard Personalized Indexing Management, LLC (0001767306, 17,368 sh), Vanguard National Trust Co (0001984256, 986 sh). Sum: 26,866,346 shares, $1,949,422,066.
• T. Rowe Price: both registrants were checked separately per the brief. T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. (CIK 0000080255) holds 1,703,363 shares as of 30 Jun 2026. Its information table reports VALUES IN THOUSANDS: the raw XML value field read 123,597, restated here as $123,597,000 (implied price ~$72.55/share, consistent with GPN's trading range and with the other rows in this register). T. Rowe Price Investment Management, Inc. (CIK 0001897612) was checked and holds NO Global Payments position in its Q2 2026 13F-HR information table (CUSIP 37940X102 does not appear); this is recorded as a note, not a null row, per rule 8.
• Capital Group family (Capital World Investors 0001422849, Capital International Investors 0001562230, Capital Research Global Investors 0001422848) was not checked individually for Q2 2026 due to time budget; the family does not appear in this project's own GPN register snapshot at all, which covers holders down to roughly 0.36% of the company, so if the family holds a Global Payments position it is likely below that threshold. Flagged as an unknown rather than asserted as zero.
• Elliott Investment Management: checked and found to hold NO Global Payments position. Its Q2 2026 13F-HR (CIK 0001791786, filed 14 Aug 2026) has only 29 information-table rows and none references CUSIP 37940X102 or any 'Global Payments' name variant. An EDGAR full text search for Schedule 13D/13D-A/13G/13G-A filings naming both 'Elliott' and 'Global Payments' returned zero hits. No evidence of an activist stake or filing at Global Payments was found; the brief's general activist-check instruction did not turn up a position here.
• Visa preferred shares: through the Worldpay Acquisition, Global Payments obtained additional Series B convertible preferred shares of Visa Inc. (related to Visa's 2016 disposal of its Visa Europe business). These were recognized at Worldpay's acquisition date (9 Jan 2026) at a fair value of zero, because of transfer restrictions, Visa's ability to adjust the conversion rate, and valuation uncertainty; the Q2 2026 10-Q additionally discloses that Worldpay agreed to pay former Worldpay owners in 2027 90% of the net-of-tax proceeds from any eventual disposal. No share count is disclosed. Given the disclosed acquisition-date fair value of zero, no residual economic claim quantified, and no share count, this is recorded as a note rather than a holdings row per rule 8 (a position that cannot be sized is not a row).