Compensation award — excluded from discretionary-purchase analysis.
Written from the filing's own figures. OQRO describes what was reported and never tells you what to buy or sell
View the official recordSEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial OwnershipAll the details
Dates, kept separate
Transaction date
Feb 28, 2026
Reporting period
Not applicable
Filed with the SEC
Mar 3, 2026
OfficerGrant / award
Context
Classification
grant award
Code A — grant or award
Planned / mechanical clue
Footnote references vesting of compensation awards
Only flagged when a footnote says so; never inferred
Source receipt
Record ID
0001123360-26-000034
Filed / recorded
Mar 3, 2026, 10:23 PM UTC
Added to OQRO
Oct 2, 2026, 12:27 PM UTC
Parser
form4-xml-v1
Data quality
Verified: identifiers matched exactly
Issuer
GLOBAL PAYMENTS INC
Issuer CIK
1123360
Ticker
GPN
Reporting person
David M Sheffield
Relationship
Officer
Officer title
EVP, Chief Accounting Officer
Security
Common Stock
Table
Non-derivative (Table I)
Transaction date
Feb 28, 2026
Transaction code
A
Shares / units
1,188
Price per share
$76.46
Acquired / disposed
Acquired (A)
Shares owned after
16,415
Ownership form
Direct
Amendment
No
Footnotes from the filing
Represents shares of fully-vested stock issued as a result of the vesting of performance-based restricted stock units which were originally granted on February 28, 2025 and were earned based on the company's achievement of an adjusted earnings per share growth target over a one-year performance period.