• FIS stock closed at $29.76 on 4 November 2026, down 23.67% on the session. ¹
• Third-quarter adjusted EPS rose 6.6% to $1.61 and revenue rose 27% to $3.45B, both slightly above consensus. ^2,3
• FIS lowered its 2026 adjusted EPS guidance to $5.82 to $5.89 from $6.15 to $6.24, and its CFO stepped down effective 5 November. ^2,4,5

Quick Answer: Why Is FIS Stock Down?

FIS stock fell 23.67% to $29.76 on 4 November 2026 after the company cut its 2026 adjusted EPS guidance to $5.82 to $5.89, signalled lower 2027 earnings, and announced its CFO’s exit, even though its third-quarter adjusted EPS of $1.61 beat the $1.60 analyst consensus.

FIS stock fell 23.67% to $29.76 on 4 November 2026, ¹ on the same day Fidelity National Information Services (NYSE:FIS) posted a quarter that beat estimates. Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) came in at $1.61, up 6.6% on a year earlier ² and a cent above consensus. ³ Prices here are as of 02:07 (UTC) / 10:07 (GMT+8) on 5 November 2026 unless stated.

A good quarter and a terrible day rarely share a headline, which is why FIS stock today deserves a closer read than the NYSE news tape gives it. We lined up the old and new guidance tables to see how a company that beats estimates sheds almost a quarter of FIS stock value in one session. Here is our FIS stock analysis.

At the cut-off, the FIS stock price today stood at $29.77 on the latest hourly bar of the NYSE chart used for this analysis, with an overnight quote of $30.01. The regular-session 52-week range is $29.39 to $68.37, ⁶ so anyone checking the $FIS stock quote this morning sees a Fidelity National Information Services share price, based on the $29.76 close, about 56.47% below its 52-week high.

Table 1: FIS Stock at a Glance, Prior Reference vs Latest Figures

Metric	Prior Reference	Latest
Q3 Adjusted EPS	$1.51 (Q3 2025)	$1.61 (Q3 2026)
Q3 Revenue	$2.72B (Q3 2025)	$3.45B (Q3 2026)
2026 Adjusted EPS Guidance	$6.15 to $6.24 (August)	$5.82 to $5.89 (November)
2026 Revenue Guidance	$13.630B to $13.695B	$13.445B to $13.505B
2027 Adjusted EPS (Preliminary)	Not given	High-single to low-double-digit decline
Quarterly Dividend	$0.44 (declared 30 July)	$0.44 (declared 29 October, payable 28 December)
Share Price	$38.99 (3 November close)	$29.76 (4 November close)

Source: SEC filing, ² FIS Investor Relations, ⁴ and MarketScreener; ¹ dividend declarations are cited in the dividend section. The 3 November close is derived from the 4 November close and session change. Data as of 5 November 2026.

A Q3 Beat That Did Not Hold

Strip out the share price and the FIS earnings release reads well. Revenue rose 27% to $3.45B, adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) rose 31% to about $1.48B, and free cash flow, excluding cash taxes on the Worldpay sale, rose 8.0% to $862M. ² On a pro forma basis, which treats the Total Issuing Solutions business bought from Global Payments as if FIS had owned it since 1 January 2025, revenue grew a steadier 3.7%. ²

Adjusted EPS landed near the top of the $1.58 to $1.62 range FIS set in August. ⁴ On most results days, that is the story. On 4 November it was the warm-up act.

The Guidance Reset Behind the Drop

So why is FIS stock down? Start with the outlook table. FIS cut its 2026 revenue guidance to $13.445B to $13.505B, from $13.630B to $13.695B, and adjusted EPS guidance to $5.82 to $5.89, from $6.15 to $6.24. ^2,4 That sits below a FactSet consensus near $6.20, ¹ and it is the second cut in a row: in August, FIS had already trimmed the range from $6.22 to $6.32. ⁷

The subtraction is where it gets uncomfortable. Take away the $4.44 of adjusted EPS already booked for the first nine months, and the new range implies fourth-quarter EPS of roughly $1.38 to $1.45: ² up to 14.29% below the quarter FIS had just reported.

Management tied the reset to client-directed conversion delays at fewer than 10 clients, mostly larger banks, along with bank consolidation, softer licence demand, and heavier technology and security spending. ^8,9 Chief Executive Stephanie Ferris told analysts that “almost all of the delayed client conversions are contractually required”. ⁸

Contracted, rescheduled revenue sounds like a timing problem. Timing problems do not usually take a quarter off a share price.

Why 2027 Mattered More Than Q3

The answer sits in 2027. FIS’s preliminary framework calls for adjusted revenue growth of minus 0.5% to plus 1.0%, adjusted EBITDA margins flat to 100 basis points lower, and adjusted EPS down by a high-single-digit to low-double-digit percentage. ¹⁰

Here is the number we kept coming back to. The midpoint of 2026 EPS guidance fell about 5.49%, from $6.195 to $5.855; the FIS share price fell 23.67%, roughly 4.31 times as much. ^1,2,4 That gap is consistent with the market marking down next year too.

FIS took about 5.49% off its 2026 earnings guidance. The share price fell 23.67% in a single session.

Brokers focused on the outlook, not the beat. J.P. Morgan analyst Tien-tsin Huang and colleagues moved to Neutral from Overweight, writing that FIS is “moving further away from being considered a predictable steady compounder”. ¹¹ They pointed to the second straight EPS cut, the CFO change, and little room for share repurchases given leverage. ¹¹

William Blair analyst Cristopher Kennedy also cut his rating to Market Perform from Outperform, citing two consecutive guidance cuts and a disappointing preliminary 2027 view. ¹² FIS also announced that day that CFO James Kehoe would step down effective 5 November, with Chief Accounting Officer Alexandra Brooks serving as interim CFO. ⁵

If the pattern feels familiar, it should.

FIS vs Fiserv: A Familiar Reset

Fiserv (now NASDAQ:FISV) ran a similar script on 29 October 2025: it cut 2025 adjusted EPS guidance to $8.50 to $8.60 from $10.15 to $10.30, named a new CFO, and fell nearly 41% in morning trading, on course for its biggest one-day drop. ¹³ Goldman Sachs analyst Will Nance, quoted in the financial news coverage that followed, warned that “the expense base will be bigger as Fiserv spends to address underinvestment”. ¹⁴

The difference is the quarter: Fiserv missed, at $2.04 against $2.64 expected, ¹³ while FIS beat. In both cases the shares moved far more than current-year guidance, which suggests investors were re-pricing visibility, not the quarter in hand. The parallel explains a mechanism, not a path.

FIS Stock Chart: RSI Pinned Below 20

The FIS stock chart tells the same story in two halves. Before the release, FIS climbed from near $34 on 8 October to an intraday high near $40.70 on 3 November (Figure 1).

Then came the gap. The first hourly bar after the release topped out near $32.40, and price has since held between roughly $29.20 and $30.60 on the hourly chart, including extended hours. Both hourly moving averages, at 35.31 and 36.57, now sit $5.54 to $6.80 above the $29.77 close, so for anyone using technical analysis, price trades below both averages it held above last week.

The 14-period Relative Strength Index (RSI) on the TradingView setup used for this analysis read 19.66 at the cut-off, two sessions after printing above 70. For an indicator that usually lives between 30 and 70, it has had a busy week. Oversold describes how fast the move ran, not where price goes next.

Table 2: FIS Levels Traders Are Watching, as of 02:07 (UTC) / 10:07 (GMT+8) on 5 November 2026

Level	Price (USD)	What It Marks
Pre-Release Close	38.99	Close on 3 November, before the gap
Hourly Moving Average Band	35.31 to 36.57	50- and 200-period hourly moving averages
First Post-Release Hourly High	Near 32.40	Top of the first hourly bar after the release on 4 November
Overnight Quote	30.01	Overnight session at the cut-off
Last Hourly Close	29.77	Last completed hourly bar at the cut-off
Post-Release Low Area	Near 29.20	Lowest hourly wicks on 4 and 5 November, including extended hours

Source: TradingView NYSE:FIS hourly chart; pre-release close derived from MarketScreener. ¹ Levels read from the chart image are approximate. Indicative only.

The FIS Dividend at a Lower Price

For holders, one more number reads differently. On 29 October, six days before the results, FIS declared a $0.44 quarterly dividend, payable on 28 December to holders of record on 14 December. ¹⁵ That matches the rate declared in April and July ^16,17 Annualised, $1.76 against the $29.76 close is an indicated yield of about 5.91%: higher because the price fell, not because the payout grew.

FIS aims for dividend-per-share growth in line with adjusted EPS growth while it works down $20.8B of debt. ² The December payment was set before the 2027 framework was published, and the release does not say how the policy applies in a year of falling earnings. The first FIS stock dividend declaration after the reset is where that gets answered.

What to Watch Next for FIS Stock

• Ex-Dividend Date, 14 December 2026: The $0.44 payment declared on 29 October goes ex-dividend, with payment on 28 December. ¹⁸
• Next Dividend Declaration, Date Not Yet Announced: The first payout decision made after the 2027 framework. ²
• Delayed Conversions, Q4 2026 to Q3 2027: Some projects restarted this quarter and others are scheduled as late as Q3 2027. ⁸ On-time go-lives bear directly on the 2027 revenue range.
• Permanent CFO Appointment, No Date Set: Brooks serves until a successor is named. ⁵
• Q4 2026 Results, Date Not Yet Announced: The first test of the implied $1.38 to $1.45 quarter, and the next company update on 2027.

The read that the market priced 2027 weakens if delayed conversions go live on schedule and detailed 2027 guidance lands at the top of the framework. FIS stock news on both appears in stock market news today and earnings news today, along with other FIS stocks coverage.

The quarter FIS reported on 4 November cleared every bar the company had set for itself. The share price answered a different question, about 2027, and the company’s own framework shows what that question was.

Gap Risk, Leverage, and Position Size

The 4 November session is a working example of gap risk. FIS closed at $38.99 on 3 November and was already quoted at $30.00 in pre-market trading after the release, down 23.04%. ¹⁹ A Stop Loss set between those prices would generally have been filled at the first available price after the gap rather than at its set level, so it limits losses to a planned size only when the market trades through that level. Scheduled results are where that distinction matters most for risk management.

Under FCA rules, leverage on share CFDs such as FIS is capped at 1:5 for retail clients, a margin of 20%. Leverage magnifies losses as well as gains: at that ratio, a 23.67% overnight move is roughly 1.18 times the margin posted. Sizing positions to account equity, not to the margin required, decides how much of an account a gap like this reaches.

FIS Stock FAQs

What Is the FIS Stock Price Today?

As of 02:07 (UTC) / 10:07 (GMT+8) on 5 November 2026, the last hourly bar closed at $29.77, with an overnight quote of $30.01. The stock price FIS closed at in the 4 November regular session was $29.76. ¹

What Is the FIS Stock Symbol?

The FIS ticker is FIS on the New York Stock Exchange. The company is widely known as FIS Global, after its fisglobal.com domain, so the FIS Global stock price and the Fidelity National Information Services stock price are the same NYSE:FIS listing.

Is There an FIS Stock Forecast or Price Target?

Vantage does not publish an FIS stock forecast, an FIS stock prediction, or an FIS stock buy or sell view. Among brokers, J.P. Morgan lowered its FIS stock price target to $38 from $53 on 4 November. ¹¹

Does FIS Still Pay a Dividend?

Yes. The latest FIS stock dividend declaration, on 29 October 2026, was $0.44 per share, payable on 28 December to holders of record on 14 December. ¹⁵

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