Financial Services
Mastercard Incorporated(MA)
Live Price
Offline$496.73
+0.71% today
1Y Change
-10.06%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 24, 2026
- Market Cap
- $438.59B
- Revenue Growth
- +16.4%
- EPS Growth
- +18.9%
- Dividend Yield
- 0.7%
Coverage: 250 bars ยท Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 24, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Mastercard Incorporated (MA) is a Financial Services stock with a market cap of $438.59B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $496.73 and down 10.1% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 24, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +16.4%, EPS growth of +18.9%, a dividend yield of 0.7%. What stands out right now is revenue +16.4%, EPS +18.9%, free cash flow +18.2% with operating margin 59.4% and ROIC 51.9%. The dividend is present but secondary, with a yield around 0.7%. Valuation already assumes a fairly strong business story at P/E 28.4 and price/sales 12.9. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a quality compounder than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines MA price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Financial Services peers on this page.
Sector Context
How this name stacks up against nearby peers on first-pass metrics.
Revenue Growth
Above sector median
+16.4% vs +3.4% peer median
Operating Margin
Above sector median
+59.4% vs +4.7% peer median
What Changed This Quarter
Latest report context and the signals most likely to have changed the story.
Latest report is on the board
2026 was reported on May 7, 2026, but the surprise data is still limited.
The operating story is still moving forward
Revenue is running at +16.4% and EPS at +18.9%, with operating margin around 59.4%.
Shareholder return is still part of the story
The stock is still offering a dividend yield around 0.7%, which matters if the thesis depends on income as much as growth.
Earnings Reaction Memory
How the stock has tended to move after recent reports.
Across the last 3 reported quarters, the stock averaged -0.3% over the next 5 trading days and finished higher after 1 of those reports.
View quarter-by-quarter reaction table
| Quarter | EPS ฮ | 1D | 5D | 20D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2026 May 7, 2026 | โ | -1.1% | -2.2% | -2.0% |
2026 Jan 29, 2026 | +12.3% | -0.9% | +1.5% | -4.9% |
2025 Oct 30, 2025 | +1.4% | -0.3% | -0.1% | -0.6% |
Benchmark Edge
MA vs SPY, QQQ, and Sector ETFs
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
MA Max Drawdown
-21.27%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Calendar-Year Returns
Uses the longest available daily history for MA and SPY.
Company Overview
Mastercard Incorporated
New York Stock Exchange
Mastercard Incorporated, a technology company, provides transaction processing and other payment-related products and services in the United States and internationally. It facilitates the processing of payment transactions, including authorization, clearing, and settlement, as well as delivers other payment-related products and services. The company offers integrated products and value-added services for account holders, merchants, financial institutions, businesses, governments, and other organizations, such as programs that enable issuers to provide consumers with credits to defer payments; prepaid programs and management services; commercial credit and debit payment products and solutions; and payment products and solutions that allow its customers to access funds in deposit and other accounts. It also provides value-added products and services comprising cyber and intelligence solutions for parties to transact, as well as proprietary insights, drawing on principled use of consumer, and merchant data services. In addition, the company offers analytics, test and learn, consulting, managed services, loyalty, processing, and payment gateway solutions for e-commerce merchants. Further, it provides open banking and digital identity platforms services. The company offers payment solutions and services under the MasterCard, Maestro, and Cirrus. Mastercard Incorporated was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Purchase, New York.
- Leadership
- Michael Miebach
- IPO Date
- May 25, 2006
- Employees
- 35.3k
- Street Address
- 2000 Purchase Street
- Mailing
- Purchase, NY, 10577
- Region
- Purchase, NY, US
- Reporting Currency
- USD
- Investor Line
- 914 249 2000
- Last Updated
- May 2, 2026
Key Fundamentals
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Valuation
- P/E
- 28.4
- EV/EBITDA
- 21.2
- Price/Sales
- 12.9
- Price/Book
- 65.7
Growth
- Revenue
- +16.4%
- EPS
- +18.9%
- Free Cash Flow
- +18.2%
Profitability
- Gross Margin
- 83.0%
- Operating Margin
- 59.4%
- Net Margin
- 45.9%
- ROE
- 206.1%
- ROIC
- 51.9%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 2.82
- Current Ratio
- 0.98
Earnings Reports
Latest News
Official Releases
Company announcements and filings-style updates.
Next Step
Keep the research moving
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