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Mastercard MA Price / sales

Price / sales at other companies

American Express logo
American ExpressAXP
2.8×0.0×
Visa logo
VisaV
13.5×-4.5×
PayPal Holdings, Inc. logo
PayPal Holdings, Inc.PYPL
1.2×-0.8×
U.S. Bancorp logo
U.S. BancorpUSB
2.8×+0.4×
Capital One Financial logo
Capital One FinancialCOF
1.9×+0.2×
Fidelity National Information Services logo
Fidelity National Information ServicesFIS
2.1×-1.8×

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×

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 / sales?
Mastercard (MA) reported price / sales of 13.1× in Q1 2026.
How has Mastercard's price / sales changed year-over-year?
Mastercard's price / sales decreased by 23.6% year-over-year, from 17.2× to 13.1×.
What is the long-term trend for Mastercard's price / sales?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Mastercard's price / sales has grown at a -5.3% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 82.1× to 65.9×.
What does price / sales mean?
How many dollars investors pay for each dollar of the company's annual sales.
How do you interpret price / sales?
Useful when earnings are negative or volatile (e.g. early-stage or cyclical firms). Only comparable across companies with similar margins — a sales dollar is worth more at a high-margin business.
How does price / sales compare across companies?
Best compared within a margin cohort; a software P/S and a retailer P/S are not directly comparable.