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Mastercard Incorporated (MA)

Financial Services · Financial - Credit Services · Mega-cap · updated October 16, 2026

NOT A BUY TODAY
What this means. Mastercard Incorporated is a strong business by our measures, its shares look expensive compared with other stocks, and its share price has been doing well.
Value11
Quality73
Price trend70
Overall41
2230 of 2764rank among the US stocks we score (our core model buys the top 15)
19%of US stocks we score rank below it

Scores are 0 to 100 against every US stock we track; 50 is average. Recomputed after every US market close.

The business in numbers

Fiscal year to December 2025, from the company's annual filing with the SEC.

Salesyearly sales$32.8B
Sales growthchange from the year before+16.4%
Operating marginshare of sales left after running the business57.6%
Net marginshare of sales kept as profit45.6%
Free-cash-flow marginspare cash generated per $100 of sales52.3%
Return on invested capitalprofit made on each $100 put into the business55.8%
Return on equityprofit vs. shareholders' accounting value193.5%
Debt / equitydebt vs. shareholders' accounting value2.46
Interest coverhow many times profit covers interest payments27.8x
Change in share countnegative = the company is buying back its shares-2.3%

Insider trades, last 90 days

2 insiders sold $21.5M (all under pre-arranged plans) on the open market.

Kirkpatrick Linda PistecchiaChief Services OfficerSold (plan)Aug 44,280 shat $570.31 · $2.4M
Miebach MichaelPresident & CEO · DirectorSold (plan)Aug 316,628 shat $580.00 · $9.6M
Miebach MichaelPresident & CEO · DirectorSold (plan)Jul 3116,628 shat $567.68 · $9.4M

From Form 4 filings with the SEC. Open-market trades only. "Plan" = a sale set up in advance under a 10b5-1 plan, usually routine.

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