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Mastercard MA Price / earnings

Price / earnings at other companies

American Express logo
American ExpressAXP
18.5×+0.1×
Visa logo
VisaV
26.1×-7.9×
PayPal Holdings, Inc. logo
PayPal Holdings, Inc.PYPL
8.2×-6.0×
U.S. Bancorp logo
U.S. BancorpUSB
10.3×+0.5×
Capital One Financial logo
Capital One FinancialCOF
35.2×+21.1×
Fidelity National Information Services logo
Fidelity National Information ServicesFIS
-39.2×

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/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 the most recent quarter.

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 price / earnings?
Mastercard (MA) reported price / earnings of 28.6× in Q1 2026.
How has Mastercard's price / earnings changed year-over-year?
Mastercard's price / earnings decreased by 24.7% year-over-year, from 38× to 28.6×.
What is the long-term trend for Mastercard's price / earnings?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Mastercard's price / earnings has grown at a -6.0% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 186.2× to 145.6×.
What does price / earnings mean?
How many dollars investors pay for each dollar of the company's annual profit.
How do you interpret price / earnings?
Lower can mean cheaper — or that the market expects earnings to fall. High multiples embed growth expectations. Meaningless when earnings are negative, so it is suppressed there.
How does price / earnings compare across companies?
Compare against the company's own history and sector peers, not across sectors with different growth and risk profiles.