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Over the five-year period (2021–2025) Visa’s balance sheet shows steady growth in total assets from $82,896m to $99,627m (≈+20.2%). Total liabilities grew faster, from $45,307m to $61,718m (≈+36.3%), producing a notable rise in leverage: liabilities/assets increased from about 54.7% in 2021 to ~62.0% in 2025, while equity/assets fell from ~45.3% to ~38.1%. Stockholders’ equity was comparatively stable in absolute terms—$37,589m in 2021 to $37,909m in 2025 (≈+0.9%)—but it experienced a dip in 2022 to $35,581m before recovering in 2023–24 and edging down slightly in 2025. The pattern—steady asset growth paired with a larger increase in liabilities and essentially flat equity—suggests Visa has been scaling its balance-sheet activity while returning capital (or otherwise not materially increasing retained equity), a common profile for mature, asset-light payments companies. The liability jumps in 2022 and 2025 could reflect higher transaction-related payables, short-term funding or other operational flows that grow with payment volumes (or episodic financing activity), rather than a large build-up of long-lived debt, though the data here don’t specify composition. The declining equity-to-assets ratio indicates higher financial leverage and a thinner equity cushion, which can boost returns on equity but also raises sensitivity to adverse shocks—worth monitoring alongside cash flow and liability composition disclosures.
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