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Founded in 2009, Block provides payment services to merchants, along with related services. The company also launched Cash App, a person-to-person payment network. In 2025, Square's payment volume was almost USD 260 million.
Block Class A trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol XYZ.
As of September 3, 2026, XYZ stock price declined to $82.26 with 738,125 million shares trading.
XYZ has a beta of 1.69, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. XYZ has a correlation of 0.19 to the broad based SPY ETF.
XYZ has a market cap of $49.42 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.
Last quarter Block Class A reported $7 billion in Revenue and $1.02 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $118 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.23.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that XYZ belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, VO, IVV, SPY.
XYZ has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +7.9%, while SPY returned +21.2%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in XYZ shares. However, XYZ has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +10.9% and +1.6%, while SPY returned +1.4% and -0.1%, respectively. This indicates XYZ has been having a stronger performance recently.
XYZ support price is $80.40 and resistance is $84.53 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that XYZ shares will trade within this expected range on the day.