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Mastercard Inc

At today's price, Mastercard Inc (MA) is priced for +22.1% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.

Live priced in
+22.1% growth
Priced In
elevated

Key Takeaways

At $489.81 (as of June 27, 2026) only the forward-growth method reaches the price. The asset, earnings-power, and peer-multiple frames all read the stock as richly valued, which means the price is paying for durable compounding that static models structurally cannot capture. The compounding is showing up. Q1 2026 net revenue rose 16% to $8.4 billion, adjusted EPS rose 23% to $4.60, cross-border volume grew 13%, and value-added services grew 22%, lifting the adjusted operating margin to 60.8%.

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Institutional ownership

3,525 institutional managers reported holding MA in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 83% of the company; the top 10 hold 40%. 123 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 6.7M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 0.8% of shares outstanding (1.6 days of typical volume to cover).

Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.

Capital returns

MA has cut its share count 10% over the past five years, spending $47.42B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting), raised 14 years straight; the current rate is $3.15 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $7.05B in dividends and $30.54B in repurchases.

Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.

Insider activity

Open-market insider buys at MA over the trailing three years: 2023: 1 buy totaling $391k. 26 officers and directors are on file.

Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.

Earnings reactions

MA's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.

reportday onenext quarter
2023-07-28-2.4%+0.8%
2023-10-27-5.8%+17.1%
2024-02-14+3.5%-1.1%
2024-05-02-2.2%+1.6%

Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.

Recent filings

MA's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-17 (items 5.07); 2026-06-08 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-06-02 (items 5.02, 9.01); 2026-05-07 (items 5.02, 9.01); 2026-04-30 (items 2.02, 9.01).

Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.

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Last analyzed: July 3, 2026

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