GPN Congressional Stock Trades & Insider Buying (2026)

GPN insider buying and selling over the past year

Over the past year GLOBAL PAYMENTS INC insiders filed 6 open-market Form 4 trades — 3 purchases worth $1.29M and 3 sales worth $1.44M — which makes them net sellers by $153.2K.

None of the 3 sales were flagged as Rule 10b5-1 plan trades, meaning each one was a discretionary decision at the time of filing. Activity clustered in 2025-12 (3 trades) and 2025-11 (2 trades); the latest filing in this window is dated 2026-02-20. The average open-market sale price was $79.61; the last close of $83.67 is 5.1% above that level, so sellers left upside on the table. The single largest trade was a purchase of 13,392 shares worth $1.09M on 2025-12-11. Since the most recent filing the stock has moved +1.5%, from $82.47. Insiders paid an average of $80.71 per share for their open-market purchases; against the last close of $83.67 that cost basis is sitting on a gain at +3.7%.

Where GPN trades relative to its one-year range

GLOBAL PAYMENTS INC closed at $83.67 on 2026-10-16, inside a one-year range of $62.47 to $94.83. That puts the stock in the middle of its range, at 65.5% of the distance from low to high. Over one year the share price moved 0.0%, and over roughly three months +7.5%. Average daily volume over the last month was about 2,270,840 shares.

Across 209 companies in the same SEC industry group (SIC 73) with a full year of prices in Gemral Edge, the median one-year return was -10.2%. GPN is ahead of that median and beat 60% of that peer group on this measure.

Members of Congress who traded GPN

STOCK Act disclosures show 52 trades in GPN by 9 members of Congress over five years (29 purchases, 23 sales), most recently on 2026-05-27. The most active traders were Ro Khanna (D-CA), 41 trades; Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. (D-CA), 4 trades; Alan Armstrong (R-OK), 1 trade; Cynthia Axne (D-IA), 1 trade; David B. McKinley (R-WV), 1 trade.

By party the trades split 48 by Democrats, 4 by Republicans; by chamber, 50 from the House, 2 from the Senate.

GPN lobbying disclosures

GLOBAL PAYMENTS INC appears in 1 Lobbying Disclosure Act filings between 2018 and 2018, with $40.0K in reported lobbying spend.

Compare GPN with indexed peers from the same industry group

These peers have full Gemral Edge dossiers and the closest one-year price move to GPN:

• META one-year return -0.4%
• CTSH one-year return +0.9%
• CDNS one-year return -1.5%
• ACN one-year return -1.9%
• CRM one-year return -2.2%

Sources and method

Every figure above is computed from public filings stored in Gemral Edge, not estimated. Insider figures count only open-market purchases and sales reported on SEC Form 4; option exercises, grants and gifts are excluded because they do not reflect a decision to buy or sell at market prices.

• SEC EDGAR Form 4 (edge_insider_trades, codes P/S open-market only) — as of 2026-02-20
• edge_prices_eod (end-of-day close) — as of 2026-10-16
• House PTR / Senate eFD disclosures (edge_congress_trades) — as of 2026-05-27
• Senate LDA filings (edge_lobbying_filings)

GPN data questions

Are GPN insiders buying or selling stock?

Over the past year GLOBAL PAYMENTS INC insiders filed 6 open-market Form 4 trades — 3 purchases worth $1.29M and 3 sales worth $1.44M — which makes them net sellers by $153.2K.

What is the one-year price range for GPN?

Based on end-of-day closes through 2026-10-16, GPN traded between $62.47 and $94.83, last closing at $83.67.

Has any member of Congress traded GPN stock?

Yes. 9 members disclosed 52 trades in GPN over five years; the most recent disclosed trade date is 2026-05-27.