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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 superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and earnings.

In the previous week, Visa had 23 more articles in the media than Mastercard. MarketBeat recorded 117 mentions for Visa and 94 mentions for Mastercard. Visa's average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Mastercard's score of 1.22 indicating that Visa is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Mastercard
75 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
11 Neutral mention(s)
3 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Visa
98 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
10 Neutral mention(s)
3 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Mastercard presently has a consensus target price of $608.57, indicating a potential upside of 5.73%. Visa has a consensus target price of $366.13, indicating a potential upside of 1.72%. Given Mastercard's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Mastercard is more favorable than Visa.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Mastercard
0 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
23 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.87
Visa
0 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
20 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.81

Mastercard has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Visa has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.

97.3% of Mastercard shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.2% of Visa shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Mastercard shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Visa shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Visa received 838 more outperform votes than Mastercard when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.37% of users gave Visa an outperform vote while only 73.15% of users gave Mastercard an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
MastercardOutperform Votes
1561
73.15%
Underperform Votes
573
26.85%
VisaOutperform Votes
2399
80.37%
Underperform Votes
586
19.63%

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Mastercard$29.07B18.05$12.87B$14.2640.36
Visa$37.62B17.65$19.74B$9.9536.17

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Mastercard45.71% 188.47% 30.05%
Visa 54.27%54.79%22.62%

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.

Summary

Mastercard beats Visa on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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MA vs. The Competition

MetricMastercardBusiness services IndustryBusiness SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$524.78B$21.48B$24.34B$19.39B
Dividend Yield0.53%3.38%2.66%3.91%
P/E Ratio41.4437.8133.3334.83
Price / Sales18.0513.99366.2042.55
Price / Cash31.6532.3030.9317.51
Price / Book80.505.895.444.74
Net Income$12.87B$686.90M$195.65M$1.02B
7 Day Performance1.03%0.71%0.70%1.20%
1 Month Performance6.65%16.13%8.36%4.62%
1 Year Performance30.09%39.51%19.09%6.90%

Mastercard Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MA
Mastercard
4.5497 of 5 stars
$575.60
+0.2%
$608.57
+5.7%
+29.3%$524.78B$29.07B41.4429,900Trending News
Analyst Forecast
V
Visa
4.3583 of 5 stars
$354.04
-1.1%
$362.38
+2.4%
+32.8%$653.27B$37.62B35.6926,500Trending News
Analyst Forecast
ADP
Automatic Data Processing
4.0396 of 5 stars
$321.09
-0.2%
$305.64
-4.8%
+33.2%$130.34B$19.04B33.4860,000Positive News
FI
Fiserv
4.9339 of 5 stars
$159.02
-1.4%
$224.20
+41.0%
+8.3%$88.17B$383.42M29.5041,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
High Trading Volume
PAYX
Paychex
4.0695 of 5 stars
$156.09
-0.1%
$141.00
-9.7%
+30.5%$56.22B$5.44B32.8616,000Positive News
FIS
Fidelity National Information Services
4.7961 of 5 stars
$78.33
0.0%
$91.11
+16.3%
+6.4%$41.15B$10.19B30.0169,000Positive News
Analyst Revision
BR
Broadridge Financial Solutions
3.8027 of 5 stars
$237.39
-0.3%
$250.83
+5.7%
+22.4%$27.89B$6.77B37.1514,300Insider Trade
Short Interest ↑
GPN
Global Payments
4.9816 of 5 stars
$74.12
-2.1%
$112.43
+51.7%
-26.2%$18.08B$10.10B11.9925,000
JKHY
Jack Henry & Associates
4.0193 of 5 stars
$182.00
+0.1%
$184.10
+1.2%
+12.0%$13.25B$2.32B32.856,850Positive News
Analyst Revision
G
Genpact
3.8248 of 5 stars
$43.50
0.0%
$50.71
+16.6%
+32.6%$7.61B$4.85B15.32109,600Positive News
EXLS
ExlService
4.2212 of 5 stars
$45.58
-0.6%
$52.33
+14.8%
+52.7%$7.42B$1.90B39.9845,400Positive News

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