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Investor pub puts Vantiv on its shopping list

June 12, 2012

Debit and credit processor Vantiv was singled out recently by an investment publication as a company that investors would do well to watch.

According to an article at Investor Place, Vantiv has a number of performance factors working in its favor:

• excellent retention of customers (Capital One and Pulse are two of the larger ones)
• a margin-lifting single integrated processing platform
• the acquisition of other companies in the processing business
• double digit transaction growth
• The Durbin Amendment which now requires banks to offer merchants the choice of at least two payments processors.

Since spinning off from regional bank Fifth Third and going public in March of this year, the company's stock price has risen from $17 per share to a high of $23 late last month.

The Investor Place article concluded that investors who'd missed out on runups of 140 percent to 200 percent on Visa and MasterCard stock should "put this one on [their] shopping list."

For more on this topic, visit the transaction processing research center.