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The onset of a possible recession or (if we are lucky) a severe downturn without technically slipping into a recession (defined as two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth) is certain to bring a plethora of short names. In surveying various payments stocks, we sought to identify those players who, in our view, would underperform the S&P and would thus undergo a more severe impact than the average