Visa Inc. is a stock corporation and, alongside Mastercard, one of the two major payment card companies and employed around 14,200 people in 2016. The VISA brand is a recursive acronym and stands for Visa International Service Association.
According to Visa's latest financial reports the company has a price-to-book ratio of 17.0833. The price-to-book ratio is a way to measure how much the stock market thinks a company is worth compared to how much the company says its assets are worth on paper.