Compare Stocks: V, MA, AXP, and PYPL

Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
AXP American Express	$321.94 -1.3%	$340.61	$290.97 ▼ $387.49	$220.22B	1.05	2.20 million shs	2.67 million shs
MA Mastercard	$568.07 -0.5%	$561.93	$464.52 ▼ $601.62	$500.11B	0.74	2.63 million shs	1.82 million shs
PYPL PayPal	$52.17 -1.9%	$55.62	$38.46 ▼ $79.21	$45.49B	1.28	12.13 million shs	9.51 million shs
V Visa	$367.92 -0.2%	$365.13	$293.89 ▼ $385.57	$657.81B	0.76	6.27 million shs	4.47 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
AXP American Express	-1.24%	-2.49%	-4.90%	+0.94%	-0.76%
MA Mastercard	-0.40%	-3.49%	+1.12%	+16.88%	-2.83%
PYPL PayPal	-1.90%	-4.57%	-11.68%	+26.50%	-22.92%
V Visa	-0.24%	-2.92%	+2.01%	+15.26%	+6.92%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
AXP American Express	$321.94 -1.3%	$340.61	$290.97 ▼ $387.49	$220.22B	1.05	2.20 million shs	2.67 million shs
MA Mastercard	$568.07 -0.5%	$561.93	$464.52 ▼ $601.62	$500.11B	0.74	2.63 million shs	1.82 million shs
PYPL PayPal	$52.17 -1.9%	$55.62	$38.46 ▼ $79.21	$45.49B	1.28	12.13 million shs	9.51 million shs
V Visa	$367.92 -0.2%	$365.13	$293.89 ▼ $385.57	$657.81B	0.76	6.27 million shs	4.47 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
AXP American Express	-1.24%	-2.49%	-4.90%	+0.94%	-0.76%
MA Mastercard	-0.40%	-3.49%	+1.12%	+16.88%	-2.83%
PYPL PayPal	-1.90%	-4.57%	-11.68%	+26.50%	-22.92%
V Visa	-0.24%	-2.92%	+2.01%	+15.26%	+6.92%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
AXP American Express	2.54	Moderate Buy	$373.32	15.96% Upside
MA Mastercard	3.10	Buy	$666.64	17.35% Upside
PYPL PayPal	2.11	Hold	$56.03	7.39% Upside
V Visa	3.23	Buy	$416.62	13.23% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest V, MA, AXP, and PYPL Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
8/31/2026	V Visa	Royal Bank Of Canada Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Outperform	$412.00 ➝ $466.00
8/31/2026	PYPL PayPal	Royal Bank Of Canada Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Outperform	$65.00 ➝ $70.00
8/31/2026	MA Mastercard	Royal Bank Of Canada Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Outperform	$642.00 ➝ $696.00
8/31/2026	PYPL PayPal	Truist Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Hold	$62.00 ➝ $53.00
8/28/2026	PYPL PayPal	Loop Capital Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Hold	$62.00 ➝ $50.00
8/28/2026	PYPL PayPal	Mizuho Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Set Price Target		$51.00
8/25/2026	V Visa	Wolfe Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Outperform	$435.00 ➝ $460.00
8/25/2026	MA Mastercard	Wolfe Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Outperform	$680.00 ➝ $740.00
8/24/2026	PYPL PayPal	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Hold (C-) ➝ Hold (C)
8/21/2026	MA Mastercard	Dbs Bank Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Moderate Buy
8/19/2026	PYPL PayPal	Truist Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Hold	$59.00 ➝ $62.00

(Data available from 9/10/2023 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
AXP American Express	$72.23B	3.01	$18.13 per share	17.76	$48.75 per share	6.60
MA Mastercard	$32.79B	15.18	$20.76 per share	27.36	$8.66 per share	65.60
PYPL PayPal	$33.17B	1.35	$6.42 per share	8.13	$22.00 per share	2.37
V Visa	$40B	16.41	$13.02 per share	28.26	$20.40 per share	18.04

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
AXP American Express	$10.83B	$16.48	19.53	15.90	1.39	15.07%	34.12%	3.77%	10/23/2026 (Estimated)
MA Mastercard	$14.97B	$18.18	31.25	24.81	1.64	46.34%	239.99%	30.88%	10/29/2026 (Estimated)
PYPL PayPal	$5.23B	$5.29	9.86	8.99	1.13	14.36%	24.39%	6.06%	10/27/2026 (Estimated)
V Visa	$20.06B	$11.76	31.29	24.56	1.97	50.78%	67.68%	25.45%	10/27/2026 (Estimated)

Latest V, MA, AXP, and PYPL Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
7/30/2026	Q2 2026	MA Mastercard	$4.77	$5.04	+$0.27	$4.97	$9.08 billion	$9.28 billion
7/28/2026	Q2 2026	PYPL PayPal	$1.28	$1.38	+$0.10	$1.25	$8.47 billion	$8.68 billion
7/28/2026	Q3 2026	V Visa	$3.23	$3.32	+$0.09	$2.77	$11.40 billion	$11.63 billion
7/24/2026	Q2 2026	AXP American Express	$4.41	$4.53	+$0.12	$4.53	$19.70 billion	$19.64 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	5-Year Annualized Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
AXP American Express	$3.80	1.18%	+12.94%	23.06%	4 Years
MA Mastercard	$3.48	0.61%	+13.70%	19.14%	13 Years
PYPL PayPal	$0.56	1.07%	N/A	10.59%	N/A
V Visa	$2.68	0.73%	+14.48%	22.79%	17 Years

Latest V, MA, AXP, and PYPL Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
7/27/2026	PYPL PayPal	quarterly	$0.14	1.02%	9/4/2026	9/4/2026	9/25/2026
7/28/2026	V Visa	quarterly	$0.67	0.74%	8/11/2026	8/11/2026	9/1/2026
6/16/2026	MA Mastercard	quarterly	$0.87	0.67%	7/9/2026	7/9/2026	8/7/2026

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
AXP American Express	1.66	1.55	1.54
MA Mastercard	3.96	1.06	1.06
PYPL PayPal	0.55	1.29	1.29
V Visa	0.60	0.99	0.99

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
AXP American Express	84.33%
MA Mastercard	97.28%
PYPL PayPal	68.32%
V Visa	82.15%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
AXP American Express	0.14%
MA Mastercard	0.09%
PYPL PayPal	0.63%
V Visa	0.12%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
AXP American Express	76,800	675.31 million	674.37 million	Optionable
MA Mastercard	39,800	876.01 million	875.22 million	Optionable
PYPL PayPal	23,800	855.46 million	850.07 million	Optionable
V Visa	34,100	1.78 billion	1.78 billion	Optionable

V, MA, AXP, and PYPL Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

Ant, Mastercard and Visa collaborate on KYA to scale agentic commerce

57 minutes ago | electronicpaymentsinternational.comE

Ant International, Visa, and Mastercard Agree on Agent Identity Standard. Now Comes the Hard Part.

57 minutes ago | finance.yahoo.com

461,921 Shares in Visa Inc. $V Acquired by Junto Capital Management LP

3 hours ago | marketbeat.com

Sequoia Financial Advisors LLC Acquires 11,666 Shares of Visa Inc. $V

3 hours ago | marketbeat.com

Van Hulzen Asset Management LLC Acquires 3,673 Shares of Visa Inc. $V

3 hours ago | marketbeat.com

National Pension Service Purchases 57,299 Shares of Visa Inc. $V

3 hours ago | marketbeat.com

Visa Mastercard Ant develop shared framework to verify AI agents

September 10 at 3:22 AM | ijr.comI

Ant International, Mastercard, Visa Collaborate On Know-Your-Agent Framework

September 10 at 3:22 AM | rttnews.com

Visa Inc. $V Shares Acquired by Archford Capital Strategies LLC

September 10 at 3:04 AM | marketbeat.com

Payment firms Visa, Mastercard and Ant International team up on AI agent trust framework

September 9 at 10:24 PM | reuters.com

How will the PhonePe-Visa cardless partnership work?

September 9 at 10:21 PM | bfsi.economictimes.indiatimes.com

Visa India’s Next Bet Beyond UPI Dominance

September 9 at 10:21 PM | bloomberg.com

Visa builds business abroad

September 9 at 10:21 PM | finance.yahoo.com

Ant International partners with Visa, Mastercard on developing AI payments

September 9 at 10:21 PM | msn.com

Ant International, Mastercard and Visa Initiate Collaboration on Know-Your-Agent Interoperability to Scale Agentic Commerce

September 9 at 10:21 PM | finance.yahoo.com

Ant International, Mastercard and Visa Initiate Collaboration on Know-Your-Agent Interoperability to Scale Agentic Commerce

September 9 at 9:10 PM | financialpost.comF

Ant International, Mastercard and Visa Initiate Collaboration on Know-Your-Agent Interoperability to Scale Agentic Commerce

September 9 at 9:00 PM | businesswire.com

MVB Partners With Velocity for Visa Direct Stablecoin Settlement Pilot

September 9 at 6:51 PM | pymnts.com

Visa Grows Stablecoin Card Network

September 9 at 6:31 PM | finance.yahoo.com

Visa connects settlement data to blockchain lenders for stablecoin cards

September 9 at 6:11 PM | finance.yahoo.com

DV-2027 green card lottery: US announces visa application window for selected applicants

September 9 at 5:20 PM | msn.com

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V, MA, AXP, and PYPL Company Descriptions

American Express NYSE:AXP

$321.94 -4.16 (-1.28%)

Closing price 09/9/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$321.60 -0.33 (-0.10%)

As of 09:24 AM Eastern

American Express Company, together with its subsidiaries, operates as integrated payments company in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the Asia Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, Canada, the Caribbean, and Internationally. It operates through four segments: U.S. Consumer Services, Commercial Services, International Card Services, and Global Merchant and Network Services. The company's products and services include credit card, charge card, banking, and other payment and financing products; network services; expense management products and services; and travel and lifestyle services. It also provides merchant acquisition and processing, servicing and settlement, point-of-sale marketing, and information products and services for merchants; and fraud prevention services, as well as the design and operation of customer loyalty programs. In addition, the company operates lounges at airports under Centurion Lounge brand name. It sells its products and services to consumers, small businesses, mid-sized companies, and large corporations through mobile and online applications, affiliate marketing, customer referral programs, third-party service providers and business partners, direct mail, telephone, in-house sales teams, and direct response advertising. American Express Company was founded in 1850 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Mastercard NYSE:MA

$568.07 -2.82 (-0.49%)

Closing price 09/9/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$568.00 -0.07 (-0.01%)

As of 09:23 AM Eastern

Mastercard Incorporated, a technology company, provides transaction processing and other payment-related products and services in the United States and internationally. The company offers integrated products and value-added services for account holders, merchants, financial institutions, digital partners, businesses, governments, and other organizations, such as programs that enable issuers to provide consumers with credits to defer payments; payment products and solutions that allow its customers to access funds in deposit and other accounts; prepaid programs services; and commercial credit, debit, and prepaid payment products and solutions. It also provides solutions that enable businesses or governments to make payments to businesses, including Virtual Card Number, which is generated dynamically from a physical card and leverages the credit limit of the funding account; a platform to optimize supplier payment enablement campaigns for financial institutions; and treasury intelligence platform that offers corporations with recommendations to enhance working capital performance and accelerate spend on cards. In addition, the company offers Mastercard Send, which partners with digital messaging and payment platforms to enable consumers to send money directly within applications to other consumers; and Mastercard Cross-Border Services enables a range of payment flows through a distribution network with a single point of access to send and receive money globally through various channels, including bank accounts, mobile wallets, cards, and cash payouts. Further, it provides cyber and intelligence solutions; insights and analytics, consulting, marketing, loyalty, processing, and payment gateway solutions for e-commerce merchants; and open banking and digital identity services. The company offers payment solutions and services under the MasterCard, Maestro, and Cirrus name. Mastercard Incorporated was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Purchase, New York.

PayPal NASDAQ:PYPL

$52.17 -1.01 (-1.90%)

Closing price 09/9/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$51.43 -0.74 (-1.42%)

As of 09:24 AM Eastern

PayPal Holdings, Inc. operates a technology platform that enables digital payments on behalf of merchants and consumers worldwide. It operates a two-sided network at scale that connects merchants and consumers that enables its customers to connect, transact, and send and receive payments through online and in person, as well as transfer and withdraw funds using various funding sources, such as bank accounts, PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products comprising its installment products, credit and debit cards, and cryptocurrencies, as well as other stored value products, including gift cards and eligible rewards. The company provides payment solutions under the PayPal, PayPal Credit, Braintree, Venmo, Xoom, Zettle, Hyperwallet, Honey, and Paidy names. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Visa NYSE:V

$367.92 -0.72 (-0.19%)

Closing price 09/9/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$367.15 -0.77 (-0.21%)

As of 09:23 AM Eastern

Visa Inc. operates as a payment technology company in the United States and internationally. The company operates VisaNet, a transaction processing network that enables authorization, clearing, and settlement of payment transactions. It also offers credit, debit, and prepaid card products; tap to pay, tokenization, and click to pay services; Visa Direct, a solution that facilitates the delivery of funds to eligible cards, deposit accounts, and digital wallets; Visa B2B Connect, a multilateral business-to-business cross-border payments network; Visa Cross-Border Solution, a cross-border consumer payments solution; and Visa DPS that provides a range of value-added services, including fraud mitigation, dispute management, data analytics, campaign management, a suite of digital solutions, and contact center services. The company also provides acceptance solutions, which include Cybersource that provides modular and value-added services for connecting merchants to payment processing; risk and identity solutions, such as Visa Advanced Authorization, Visa Secure, Visa Risk and Decision Manager, Visa Consumer Authentication Service, and payment-decisioning solutions for fraud prevention; and Visa Consulting and Analytics, a payment consulting advisory services. It provides its services under the Visa, Visa Electron, Interlink, V PAY, and PLUS brand names. The company serves merchants, financial institutions, and government entities. Visa Inc. was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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