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MA
Mastercard Inc
NYSE· Financial Services· Credit Services· CUSIP 57636Q104
$633.21+1.70%Price as of Oct 23, 00:40 UTC · updated once a day, after the close
At a glance
Mastercard Inc (MA) is listed on NYSE and classified in Credit Services, part of the Financial Services sector. It is headquartered in Purchase, United States and has 39,800 employees. The company is worth $554.7B and trades at 34.8x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 13.2x. Revenue was $32.79B in fiscal 2025, up 16.4% from the year before. Net income was $14.97B. The share price is within 3% of its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 0.55%, and has raised its annual dividend for 14 years in a row in our records. 11 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q3 2026. The largest position belongs to Bill Ackman (Pershing Square Capital Management), at $1.09B. In that quarter, 6 of them opened or added to the position and 3 reduced it. Over the last 30 days, company insiders sold $3.11M of its stock on the open market and bought none. All of those sales were scheduled in advance under 10b5-1 plans.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Analysis
Articles on this site that cover Mastercard Inc.
- The 10 highest returns on invested capital among U.S. companies worth $50 billion or morePublished Oct 14, 2026
- Visa vs. Mastercard: two 50%-margin networks, Ackman buying both, and a tie since 2008Published Oct 11, 2026
- Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square in Q2 2026: 14 stocks, three new payment and data names, and Alphabet soldPublished Oct 11, 2026
Key metrics
- Market cap
- $554.7B
- P/E
- 34.8x
- Forward P/E
- 27.4x
- P/B
- 99.0x
- Dividend yield
- 0.55%
- Payout
- 19.14%
- EPS
- $18.18
- ROE
- 241.20%
- Profit margin
- 46.34%
- Revenue growth
- +14.10%
- Beta
- 0.76
- 52-week high
- $633.29
- 52-week low
- $464.52
History
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Investors holding this
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
Price over time
▲ +96.1% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,893.04▲ +89.3%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
Indicators, year by year
The last 19 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $570.88 | $526.57 | $426.51 | $347.73 | $359.32 | $356.94 | $298.59 | $188.65 | $151.36 | $103.25 | $97.36 | $86.16 | $83.55 | $49.13 | $37.28 | $22.41 | $25.60 |
Fair price, seven ways
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Earnings
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This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Earnings
$391.71
Earnings growing 21.0% a year plus a 0.5% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Earnings
$239.16
Median P/E of 13.2 among peers in the sector.
Earnings
$602.87
Median P/E of 33.2 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow
$638.23
Cash flow growing 15.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Operating
$265.11
Sector median of 12.4x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividends
—
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Others in the same sector
Companies of similar size in Financial Services, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VVisa Inc | $414.34 | 35.3x | 22.0x | 0.65% | 61.19% | $777.86B |
| BACBank of America Corp | $51.08 | 12.1x | 1.3x | 2.51% | 10.73% | $357.19B |
| JPMJpmorgan Chase & Co | $336.54 | 14.1x | 2.5x | 1.96% | 18.01% | $893.72B |
| HSBCHSBC Holdings PLC | $91.89 |
About the company
- 39,800
- Purchase, United States
