Mastercard Incorporated

MA · Financial Services

$587.65
+2.66% today

What a holder would want to know before buying MA: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.

Where the price sits
Low $471.55 · Jun 2026High $599.86 · Aug 2026

Today’s price is 25% above the lowest point of the past year and 2% below the highest.

Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 97% of days and more expensive on 3%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 99% of days.

11% above its average price of the last 200 trading days.

How bad does it get

Fell 20% or more 6 times in 10 years. The deepest fall was 41%; the longest took 17 months to get back to its peak. Every one recovered.

Now 2% below the Aug 2026 peak.

Aug 2025
−21%back in 12 months
Feb 2022
−29%back in 17 months
Apr 2021
−23%back in 9 months
Aug 2020
−21%back in 6 months
Feb 2020
−41%back in 6 months
Oct 2018
−22%back in 5 months
What you own

Mastercard Incorporated · Financial Services · Credit Services · a mega-cap worth $516.09B

Mastercard Incorporated, a technology company, provides transaction processing and other payment-related products and services in the United States and internationally. The company offers products and services for…

Is it making money?
2022
2023
2024
2025

revenue profit

Sales of $32.79B in 2025, with $14.97B of profit. Sales grew in 3 of the last 3 years.

Keeps about 46 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.

Is it healthy?
Cash
$11.61B
Debt
$24.64B
Free cash flow / yr
$16.96B

Would need about 1.5 years of free cash flow to repay all its debt.

Is it expensive?

You pay $32 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $26 for every $1 of profit expected next year.

A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.

Pays 0.61% a year in dividends at today’s price · next ex-dividend Oct 9.

What others are doing

40 analysts: 36 say buy, 4 hold, 0 sell. Their average 12-month target is $668.07 (range $550.00–$740.00).

Insiders made 0 purchases and 13 sales in the last 6 months. Executives routinely sell shares they were paid in; buying with their own money is the rarer signal.

Free data from Yahoo Finance, refreshed daily. This is evidence about the business and its price history, not a recommendation.

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