How is Mastercard (MA) doing?

Mastercard is a company in the financial, credit services industry, based in Purchase, NY, worth $516.7B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.

Updated Oct 9, 2026

P3 score

Middling

Mastercard shares are up 2% over the past year, 12 points behind the S&P 500. Its type is Wallflower. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 40th percentile on market beat, the 62nd on staying power and the 91st on business growth. It appears on 8 of our dashboards.

$589.14+2% in a yearWorth $516.7B

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Past year

The past year

Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.

MA against the S&P 500, past year

$100 a year ago. Mastercard +2%, the S&P 500 +16%.

MAS&P 500

What kind of stock is it?

Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.

Wallflower

LaggingSteadyGrowingSold

A growing business and a steady rank, but the shares lag and sellers lead. Overlooked.

NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepNow

Wallflower this month; Show-Me Grower before that.

Also Wallflower (62 in all): FIS · SW · STAG · OMF · FTAI · AFL

EmbracedToppingAccumulatingRejectedStable rankBellwetherDistribution TopCoiled SpringWallflowerHolding rankFaith TradeRolling OverBottom FishedSleepy StapleUnsteady rankHot HandChurning WinnerTurning UpShow-Me GrowerBouncy rankSpeculative PopExhausted RallyFalling KnifeBroken Year

How is it doing against its group?

Its group is Payments & fintech, 10 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Card networks and payment processors.

MA, past year+2%4 of 10 in the group

Rest of the group−18%equal-weighted

S&P 500+16%past year

Mastercard is +2% over the past year, against −18% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 4th of 10 in Payments & fintech.

MARest of the group

Best in the groupCPAY Corpay+36%V Visa+10%WEX WEX+8%

Worst in the groupFISV Fiserv−64%FIS Fidelity National Information Services−50%PYPL PayPal−27%

Its closest rivalsV Visa+10%PYPL PayPal−27%AXP American Express−5%FIS Fidelity National Information Services−50%FISV Fiserv−64%

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How much does it move?

Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.

About usual Mastercard typically moves 1.7% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings less than 90% of large US stocks.

Typical day1.7%about $10.12 a share

Its usual2.1%about usual, 0.8× its year’s average

Against the S&P 5001.9×the index’s typical day is 1.1%

Unusual day±3.4%twice its typical day

Deepest fall, past year−19%now 2% below its high

In the S&P’s down weeks86%of the index’s fall, three years; beta 0.8

Typical daily move (ATR)Its year’s average 2.08%

MA on our dashboards

Every question where Mastercard appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with MA highlighted. Select a column to sort.

Question	Reading	Place	Details
What moved today, and why? What’s leading	95Unusual	16 of 30	Today +2.5% · × normal day 1.5×
How much do the biggest companies dominate? What’s leading	–	19 of 25	Weight 0.8% · Value $520.2B · 1Y return +4%
Which companies are worth the most? What’s leading	–	23 of 50	Market value $516.7B · Places, 1Y −7 · Value, 1Y −1%
Which companies grow earnings every year? Business quality	92Long run	40 of 60	Years of growth 5 years · Growth, 5Y +21% a yr · Latest EPS 16.52
Which businesses are getting better? Business quality	91Improving	46 of 60	Revenue growth +17% · Operating margin 59%
Which companies are built to last? Business quality	65Solid	41 of 60	Steady margins 86 · Reliable cash 61 · Balance sheet 49
Which stocks are priced for perfection? Value	86Rich	52 of 60	Forward P/E 25× · EV / sales 14.7× · Expected EPS growth +16%
Which dividends are growing fastest? Dividends and buybacks	85Fast	44 of 60	5Y +14% a yr · Latest raise +14% · Yield 0.6%

Go deeper on Stox

MA’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.

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How to read this page

How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.

Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.

Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.

Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.

Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.

For financial statements, earnings and news, see MA’s full profile on Stox.

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