Mastercard Incorporated

MA Financial Credit Services

Mastercard Incorporated’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $32.8 billion, up 16.4% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+14.0%
EPS
+21.6%
Free cash flow
−10.3%
Total debt
+26.1%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

652.74 3.18 −0.48%
Market cap
$571.4B
P/E
34.2×
Fwd P/E
32.5×
Dividend yield
0.53%
F-score
8/9
Altman Z
n/a
Beneish M
n/a
Dividend safety
n/a

Mastercard Incorporated (MA) Operating margin

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Mastercard Incorporated's operating margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 58.6%, up 1.0 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (57.6%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 48.7% (fiscal 2018) to 57.6% (fiscal 2025) — the current reading is the highest in ten years. That is above the Credit Services industry median of 0.34% and above the Financial sector median of 0.00%.

Operating margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
FY2025 57.6% 2.31
FY2024 55.3% (0.49)
FY2023 55.8% 0.66
FY2022 55.2% 1.76
FY2021 53.4% 0.58
FY2020 52.8% (4.43)
FY2019 57.2% 8.53
FY2018 48.7% (4.28)
FY2017 53.0% (0.47)
FY2016 53.5% 0.93

Quarterly newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
Sep 2026 59.8% (0.45)
Jun 2026 60.2% 1.79
Mar 2026 58.4% 2.67
Dec 2025 55.8% (3.08)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 48.7% High 57.6%
Ten-year median 53.5%
Current reading's percentile 100

Operating margin against peers

Company Operating margin
V Visa Inc. compare 61.2%
MA Mastercard Incorporated 58.6%
PYPL PayPal Holdings, Inc. compare 17.0%
AFRM Affirm Holdings, Inc. compare 11.8%
SOFI SoFi Technologies, Inc. compare 0.00%
COF Capital One Financial Corporation compare 0.00%
AXP American Express Company compare 0.00%
SYF Synchrony Financial compare 0.00%
ALLY Ally Financial Inc. compare 0.00%
Credit Services industry median 0.34%
Financial sector median 0.00%
Market median 0.00%

What Operating margin is

EBIT Margin tells an investor how much operating profit, before interest and taxes, a company keeps from each unit of revenue.

EBIT ÷ Revenue

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