Euronet Worldwide (EEFT)

Financial technology provider Euronet Worldwide (NASDAQ:EEFT) missed Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q3 CY2025 as sales rose 4.2% year on year to $1.15 billion. Its non-GAAP profit of $3.62 per share was in line with analysts’ consensus estimates.

Company Overview

Operating a global network of over 47,000 ATMs and 821,000 point-of-sale terminals across more than 60 countries, Euronet Worldwide (NASDAQ:EEFT) provides electronic payment solutions including ATM services, prepaid product processing, and international money transfer services.

Diversified financial services encompass specialized offerings outside traditional categories. These firms benefit from identifying niche market opportunities, developing tailored financial products, and often facing less direct competition. Challenges include scale limitations, regulatory classification uncertainties, and the need to continuously innovate to maintain market differentiation against larger competitors expanding their offerings.

In the money transfer segment, Euronet competes primarily with Western Union and MoneyGram International. In the EFT processing space, competitors include traditional payment processors and financial technology companies. The epay segment faces competition from direct carrier billing systems and other digital content distributors.

A company’s long-term sales performance is one signal of its overall quality. Even a bad business can shine for one or two quarters, but a top-tier one grows for years. Thankfully, Euronet Worldwide’s 11.1% annualized revenue growth over the last five years was solid. Its growth beat the average financials company and shows its offerings resonate with customers, a helpful starting point for our analysis.

We at StockStory place the most emphasis on long-term growth, but within financials, a half-decade historical view may miss recent interest rate changes, market returns, and industry trends. Euronet Worldwide’s annualized revenue growth of 7.9% over the last two years is below its five-year trend, but we still think the results were respectable. Note: Quarters not shown were determined to be outliers, impacted by outsized investment gains/losses that are not indicative of the recurring fundamentals of the business.

This quarter, Euronet Worldwide’s revenue grew by 4.2% year on year to $1.15 billion, falling short of Wall Street’s estimates.

Revenue growth is one major determinant of business quality, and the efficiency of operations is another. For Diversified Financial Services companies, we look at pre-tax profit rather than the operating margin that defines sectors such as consumer, tech, and industrials.

The pre-tax profit margin includes interest because it's central to how financial institutions generate revenue and manage costs. Tax considerations are excluded since they represent government policy rather than operational performance, giving investors a clearer view of business fundamentals.

Over the last four years, Euronet Worldwide’s pre-tax profit margin has fallen by 4.5 percentage points, going from 5.9% to 10.3%. However, fixed cost leverage was muted more recently as the company’s pre-tax profit margin was flat on a two-year basis.

In Q3, Euronet Worldwide’s pre-tax profit margin was 15.7%. This result was 3.2 percentage points worse than the same quarter last year.

Revenue trends explain a company’s historical growth, but the long-term change in earnings per share (EPS) points to the profitability of that growth – for example, a company could inflate its sales through excessive spending on advertising and promotions.

Euronet Worldwide’s EPS grew at a spectacular 23% compounded annual growth rate over the last five years, higher than its 11.1% annualized revenue growth. This tells us the company became more profitable on a per-share basis as it expanded.

Like with revenue, we analyze EPS over a more recent period because it can provide insight into an emerging theme or development for the business.

For Euronet Worldwide, its two-year annual EPS growth of 15.7% was lower than its five-year trend. We still think its growth was good and hope it can accelerate in the future.

In Q3, Euronet Worldwide reported adjusted EPS of $3.62, up from $3.03 in the same quarter last year. This print was close to analysts’ estimates. Over the next 12 months, Wall Street expects Euronet Worldwide’s full-year EPS of $9.39 to grow 16.1%.

Return on equity, or ROE, tells us how much profit a company generates for each dollar of shareholder equity, a key funding source for banks. Over a long period, banks with high ROE tend to compound shareholder wealth faster through retained earnings, buybacks, and dividends.

Over the last five years, Euronet Worldwide has averaged an ROE of 18.5%, impressive for a company operating in a sector where the average shakes out around 10% and those putting up 25%+ are greatly admired. This shows Euronet Worldwide has a strong competitive moat.

The debt-to-equity ratio is a widely used measure to assess a company's balance sheet health. A higher ratio means that a business aggressively financed its growth with debt. This can result in higher earnings (if the borrowed funds are invested profitably) but also increases risk.

If debt levels are too high, there could be difficulties in meeting obligations, especially during economic downturns or periods of rising interest rates if the debt has variable-rate payments.

Euronet Worldwide currently has $2.46 billion of debt and $1.28 billion of shareholder's equity on its balance sheet, and over the past four quarters, has averaged a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.8×. We think this is safe and raises no red flags. In general, we’re comfortable with any ratio below 3.5× for a financials business.

We struggled to find many positives in these results. Overall, this quarter could have been better. The stock traded down 2.5% to $86.52 immediately following the results.

Updated: December 4, 2025 at 11:20 PM EST

A common mistake we notice when investors are deciding whether to buy a stock or not is that they simply look at the latest earnings results. Business quality and valuation matter more, so we urge you to understand these dynamics as well.

There is a lot to like about Euronet Worldwide. First of all, the company’s revenue growth was solid over the last five years. On top of that, its expanding pre-tax profit margin shows the business has become more efficient, and its spectacular EPS growth over the last five years shows its profits are trickling down to shareholders.

Euronet Worldwide’s P/E ratio based on the next 12 months is 6.9x. Scanning the financials landscape today, Euronet Worldwide’s fundamentals really stand out, and we like it at this bargain price.

Wall Street analysts have a consensus one-year price target of $117.43 on the company (compared to the current share price of $73.78), implying they see 59.2% upside in buying Euronet Worldwide in the short term.