Fuelling the meteoric share price rise (up some 80 per cent since the start of the year) are big earnings expectations, though it's worth noting the share price run is easily outpacing the expected earnings growth.
Visa (V) shareholders have witnessed a meteoricrise in shareprice since the post-Visa Europe integration which provided double - digit annualized one - time boost to revenue growth and thus was being used as an incorrect growth comparator.