Mastercard Incorporated
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $595.34, Mastercard Incorporated (MA) is priced for +21.1% growth. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating; individual model outputs and user-controlled scenarios are analytical inputs, not Boothcheck targets. The narrative was composed August 6, 2026 from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Mastercard pairs a payment network that supplies 59% of revenue with value-added services and solutions at 41%, giving each transaction more than one way to earn. • Today’s price requires operating income to compound about 20.4% annually for five years, a pace that the business can plausibly reach but that only about 37% of comparable fast growers sustained for that long. • The next test is whether Q2 momentum persists after net revenue rose 14% and value-added services revenue rose 20% from t
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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.
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.
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.
MA's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next 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.
MA's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-30 (items 2.02, 9.01); 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).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Dates link to the filing on EDGAR. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: August 6, 2026
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