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

Mastercard pays an annual dividend of $3.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Visa pays an annual dividend of $2.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Mastercard pays out 21.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Visa pays out 23.8% 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 increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years and Visa has increased its dividend for 17 consecutive years. Visa is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Mastercard currently has a consensus target price of $607.96, suggesting a potential upside of 14.69%. Visa has a consensus target price of $358.17, suggesting a potential upside of 7.08%. Given Mastercard's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly 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

Visa received 835 more outperform votes than Mastercard when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.31% of users gave Visa an outperform vote while only 73.07% of users gave Mastercard an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
MastercardOutperform Votes
1555
73.07%
Underperform Votes
573
26.93%
VisaOutperform Votes
2390
80.31%
Underperform Votes
586
19.69%

Mastercard has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Visa has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Mastercard had 7 more articles in the media than Visa. MarketBeat recorded 92 mentions for Mastercard and 85 mentions for Visa. Visa's average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat Mastercard's score of 1.38 indicating that Visa is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Mastercard
73 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
11 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Visa
75 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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%

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 insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Visa shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Mastercard$28.17B17.16$12.87B$13.8938.16
Visa$36.80B16.88$19.74B$9.9233.72

Summary

Mastercard beats Visa on 13 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$483.31B$20.03B$7.08B$18.67B
Dividend Yield0.59%2.92%2.69%4.16%
P/E Ratio38.1633.2229.9931.63
Price / Sales17.167.57163.5827.49
Price / Cash31.6532.3031.6117.53
Price / Book74.145.344.704.36
Net Income$12.87B$681.59M$194.86M$1.02B
7 Day Performance2.44%13.46%18.20%1.58%
1 Month Performance-2.52%2.38%-0.43%-7.33%
1 Year Performance14.62%27.44%6.41%1.81%

Mastercard Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MA
Mastercard
4.8112 of 5 stars
$530.11
+0.5%
$607.96
+14.7%
+14.6%$483.31B$28.17B38.1629,900Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
V
Visa
4.2533 of 5 stars
$318.07
-3.5%
$355.84
+11.9%
+22.0%$590.90B$36.80B32.0626,500Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
ADP
Automatic Data Processing
4.1415 of 5 stars
$281.93
-3.9%
$302.30
+7.2%
+19.1%$114.87B$18.78B29.4060,000Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
FI
Fiserv
4.0788 of 5 stars
$205.53
-1.5%
$234.79
+14.2%
+39.9%$114.80B$383.42M38.1341,000Upcoming Earnings
Options Volume
Gap Up
PAYX
Paychex
3.8754 of 5 stars
$138.82
-4.2%
$141.00
+1.6%
+17.7%$50.00B$5.44B29.2316,000Positive News
FIS
Fidelity National Information Services
4.5599 of 5 stars
$76.65
+2.8%
$89.05
+16.2%
+10.5%$40.60B$10.13B29.3769,000Analyst Upgrade
News Coverage
BR
Broadridge Financial Solutions
3.8198 of 5 stars
$226.18
-4.1%
$241.00
+6.6%
+20.7%$26.47B$6.68B35.4014,300Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Upgrade
Positive News
GPN
Global Payments
4.9493 of 5 stars
$66.80
-3.8%
$117.36
+75.7%
-43.4%$16.42B$10.11B10.8125,000Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
JKHY
Jack Henry & Associates
4.1996 of 5 stars
$168.03
-2.2%
$186.45
+11.0%
+4.0%$12.25B$2.27B30.336,850Short Interest ↓
Positive News
G
Genpact
2.8978 of 5 stars
$46.24
-2.9%
$48.44
+4.8%
+50.3%$8.12B$4.77B16.28109,600Positive News
EXLS
ExlService
4.0109 of 5 stars
$43.13
-3.9%
$48.86
+13.3%
+48.8%$7.00B$1.84B37.8345,400Upcoming Earnings
Positive News

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