MA vs. V, ADP, FI, PAYX, FIS, BR, GPN, JKHY, G, and EXLS
Should you be buying Mastercard stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mastercard include Visa (V), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Fiserv (FI), Paychex (PAYX), Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Global Payments (GPN), Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY), Genpact (G), and ExlService (EXLS). These companies are all part of the "data processing & outsourced services" industry.
Mastercard vs.
Mastercard (NYSE:MA) and Visa (NYSE:V) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.
Visa has a net margin of 54.27% compared to Mastercard's net margin of 45.71%. Mastercard's return on equity of 188.47% beat Visa's return on equity.
97.3% of Mastercard shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.2% of Visa shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Mastercard shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Visa shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Visa had 18 more articles in the media than Mastercard. MarketBeat recorded 107 mentions for Visa and 89 mentions for Mastercard. Visa's average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Mastercard's score of 1.24 indicating that Visa is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Visa received 838 more outperform votes than Mastercard when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.36% of users gave Visa an outperform vote while only 73.14% of users gave Mastercard an outperform vote.
Mastercard currently has a consensus target price of $607.86, suggesting a potential upside of 5.89%. Visa has a consensus target price of $365.71, suggesting a potential upside of 1.81%. Given Mastercard's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Mastercard is more favorable than Visa.
Mastercard pays an annual dividend of $3.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Visa pays an annual dividend of $2.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Mastercard pays out 21.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Visa pays out 23.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Mastercard has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years and Visa has raised its dividend for 17 consecutive years. Visa is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Visa has higher revenue and earnings than Mastercard. Visa is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mastercard, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Mastercard has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Visa has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Mastercard beats Visa on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:MA) was last updated on 5/28/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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