Corpay, Inc vs Mastercard Incorporated, two Internet Retail stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where CPAY and MA diverge most: on implied growth (priced in), CPAY reads -0.9% and MA reads +18.4%; on p/b, CPAY reads 7.35 and MA reads 92.72. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's CPAY price has a different growth bar priced in than MA (-0.9% implied for CPAY vs +18.4% for MA); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What CPAY's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). What MA's price implies is a somewhat stretched bet versus history (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | CPAY | MA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $397.87 | $589.17 |
| Market cap | $26.4B | $520.2B |
| Sector | Internet Retail | Internet Retail |
| Stage | Growth | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | -0.9% | +18.4% |
| P/E | 24.2 | 32.4 |
| P/B | 7.35 | 92.72 |
| P/S | 5.26 | 14.83 |
| EV/EBITDA | 12.8 | 24.6 |
| Revenue growth | +20.4% | +16.1% |
| Operating margin | 35.3% | 60.2% |
| Net margin | 22.7% | 46.3% |
| Return on equity | 31.8% | 289.7% |
| Return on assets | 4.0% | 28.2% |
| Return on invested capital | 11.3% | 54.1% |
| FCF yield | 6.2% | 3.2% |
| Dividend yield | — | 0.5% |
| Debt / equity | 2.96 | 4.39 |
| Current ratio | 0.97 | 1.06 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 6.75 | 9.18 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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