ATLANTA (AP) _ Global Payments Inc. (GPN) on Monday reported a second-quarter loss of $673 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier.

On a per-share basis, the Atlanta-based company said it had a loss of $2.42. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs and stock option expense, came to $2.36 per share.

The results met Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 12 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was also for earnings of $2.36 per share.

The electronics payment processing company posted revenue of $2.28 billion in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $2.06 billion, missing Street forecasts. Nine analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $2.1 billion.

Global Payments expects full-year earnings in the range of $9.53 to $9.75 per share, with revenue in the range of $8.48 billion to $8.55 billion.

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