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Mastercard MA Earnings yield

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5.4%0.0pp
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3.8%+0.9pp
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12.1%+5.1pp
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U.S. BancorpUSB
9.7%-0.5pp
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Capital One FinancialCOF
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Fidelity National Information ServicesFIS
11.1%+9.0pp

Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$8.4B+15.8%
Operating income$4.9B+18.3%
Net income$3.9B+18.4%
EPS (diluted)$4.35+21.2%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$7.9B+4.4%
Total debt$19.0B+0.8%
Total equity$6.7B+0.7%
Total assets$52.4B+8.2%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$3.0B+26.0%
CapEx$154.0M-3.1%
Free cash flow$2.8B+28.1%

Valuation

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Market cap$435.6B-10.8%
Enterprise value$446.65B-10.6%
P/E28×-9.2×
P/S12.8×-4.0×

Profitability

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Operating margin57.9%+2.4pp
Net margin45.9%+0.7pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity232.6%+43.6pp
Debt / equity2.8×0.0×
Current ratio-0.1×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Mastercard’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: Mastercard’s 10-Q, filed April 30, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Mastercard's earnings yield?
Mastercard (MA) reported earnings yield of 3.5% in Q1 2026.
How has Mastercard's earnings yield changed year-over-year?
Mastercard's earnings yield increased by 32.9% year-over-year, from 2.6% to 3.5%.
What is the long-term trend for Mastercard's earnings yield?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Mastercard's earnings yield has grown at a 6.0% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 8.7% to 11%.
What does earnings yield mean?
The company's annual profit as a percentage of its market price — the flip side of the P/E.
How do you interpret earnings yield?
Higher means more earnings per dollar invested. Easy to compare directly against bond yields to judge the relative attractiveness of equity.
How does earnings yield compare across companies?
Comparable across profitable companies and against fixed-income yields; undefined when earnings are negative.