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CorpayCPAYCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Financials›Miscellaneous Commercial Services

Provides corporate payment and expense-management solutions, including fuel cards, cross-border payments and accounts-payable automation for businesses.

Momentum leader 88
Mkt cap
$29.9B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
96%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$226M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
14.7×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
n/a
WACC 8.5%
Hurdle
n/a
no reverse DCF
Next earnings
96 days
10 Feb 2027
Close · USD$455.16
1D+1.8%
1W+13.5%
1M+13.2%
3M+13.5%
6M+32.3%
YTD+51.2%
1Y+73.9%
ATR %3.2%
Beta0.56
52w lowhigh5.1% off high

What Corpay does

Provides corporate payment and expense-management solutions, including fuel cards, cross-border payments and accounts-payable automation for businesses.

Earns fees from merchants that accept its cards and from fleet customers, plus a margin on currency exchange in its cross-border payments business, which carries much of the growth. Revenue is therefore sensitive to fuel prices and exchange-rate swings. It was named FleetCor until 2024.

Products and services

  • Fuel cards/vehicle payments
  • Corporate Payments (cross-border, AP)
  • Lodging/gift card payments

Customers

  • Fleet operators/businesses with vehicles
  • Corporates needing cross-border/AP payments

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Financial services
  • B2B payments/fintech
  • Fuel cards, cross-border payments, AP…

What could go right

  • Cross-border payments volume growth
  • Fuel-card cross-sell into new verticals

What could go wrong

  • EV transition reducing fuel-card relevance long-term
  • FX/interest rate sensitivity in cross-border business

Moat: narrow (network effects, switching costs, scale). Merchant/fuel-network acceptance and embedded payment workflows create switching costs for corporate customers.

Headquarters: Atlanta, Georgia, USA · Founded: 2000 · Employees: 11,800

Named competitors

Corpay at a glance

Size Corpay (CPAY) is a United States Financials company (Miscellaneous Commercial Services) with a market value of $29.9B, the 365th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $455.16 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 32.3%, against +13.3% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — highest of 6 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 20.4% over the last twelve months (peer median +7.0%); the operating margin is 45.8% (peer median 19.9%).

Valuation It trades at 14.7× forward earnings against a peer median of 16.9× (3rd cheapest of 6).

Short interest Short interest is 5.3% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 10 Feb 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

8010012011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026CPAY 133Peer median 116
Six months, rebased to 100: Corpay against the median of its 5 peers (local-currency closes).

Corpay financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$5.02B$4.53B$3.97B$3.76B$3.43B
Revenue growth—+14%+6%+10%—
Gross profit$3.67B$3.29B$2.86B$2.73B$2.47B
EBITDA$2.74B$2.47B$2.15B$2.03B$1.79B
Net income$1.13B$1.07B$1.00B$982M$954M
Free cash flow$1.64B$1.30B$1.77B$1.95B$603M
Capital expenditure$209M$201M$175M$154M$151M
Total debt$10.6B$10.1B$8.09B$6.82B$7.15B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Corpay competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-20%0%+20%0%+20%+40%FISVPYPLXYZWSEPAYPCPAY6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Corpay is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+10%+20%+30%10×15×FISVPYPLXYZWSEPAYPCPAYRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Corpay is the large dot.

Corpay competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (CPAY vs WEX vs AXP vs EDEN.PA)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Corpay CPAY$29.9B+32%+20%46%14.7×n/a
WEX WEX$5.99B+29%+10%27%8.0×n/a
American Express AXP$215B+2%+10%21%16.6×n/a
Edenred EDEN.PA$6.52B+15%+3%30%12.0×-8.0%
BILL BILL$4.50B+25%+13%1%13.7×36.5%
Wise WSE$13.2B-23%+20%22%17.4×n/a
Flywire FLYW$2.62B+25%+31%9%33.9×n/a

How Corpay compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Corpay against its 5 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureCPAYPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+13.2%+7.7%3rd highest of 6
6-month return+32.3%+13.3%highest of 6
Distance from 52-week high-5.1%-12.2%2nd highest of 6
Revenue growth (TTM)+20.4%+7.0%2nd highest of 6
Operating margin45.8%19.9%highest of 6
Forward P/E14.7×16.9×3rd cheapest of 6

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Corpay CPAYUnited States$29.9B+32%+20%46%14.7×n/an/a
Fiserv FISVUnited States$33.4B+13%-2%19%8.2×n/an/a
PayPal PYPLUnited States$49.2B+31%+5%19%10.1×n/an/a
Block XYZUnited States$51.7B+14%+7%20%17.1×n/an/a
Wise WSEUnited States$13.2B-23%+20%22%17.4×n/an/a
PayPay Corporation Sponsored ADR PAYPUnited States$9.97B-24%+29%24%16.9×n/an/a

Questions

Who are Corpay's main competitors?
Named competitors: WEX Inc. (WEX), American Express (corporate payments) (AXP), Edenred (EDEN.PA), Bill Holdings (BILL), Wise (WSE), Flywire (FLYW). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Fiserv (FISV), PayPal (PYPL), Block (XYZ), Wise (WSE), PayPay Corporation Sponsored ADR (PAYP).
Is Corpay expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 14.7× against a peer median of 16.9×, 3rd cheapest of 6 in its peer set.
How has Corpay stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +32.3% against +13.3% for the median peer; over one year +73.9%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.