MA Mastercarddata gap · 91% coverage
Financials · Transaction & Payment Processing Services · close $617.42 (2026-10-16) · latest quarter in EDGAR: 2026-06-30
Mastercard (MA) has a ThetaGrade House Rating of 59/100 (grade C), ranking #4 of 38 in Financials. Its strongest pillars are profitability (92) and analyst sentiment (83); its weakest is valuation (8). Data gap: 1 factor without usable data, so 91% of the method weight is covered. TTM revenue growth is 16.0% and operating margin 58.3%.
Data as of .
Data gap
No usable data for: 4Q gross-margin change. Data gap: no usable data for this factor, so it is left out and its weight is shared among the factors that do have data (no value is imputed). 91% of the full method weight is backed by data.
Analyst sentiment
weight 7.5% · 83| Consensus score (1–5) (3.8%) | derived | 92 |
| 90-day net rating shift (3.8%) | derived | 92 |
Growth
weight 30.83% · 53| Revenue growth YoY (TTM) (12.3%) | 16.0% | 62 |
| EPS growth YoY (TTM) (12.3%) | 22.6% | 50 |
| Revenue acceleration (6.2%) | -1.8% | 41 |
Profitability
weight 18.5% · 92| Operating margin (18.5%) | 58.3% | 92 |
| 4Q gross-margin change (0.0%)data gap | — | — |
Balance sheet
weight 18.5% · 63| Net debt / EBITDA (9.9%) | 0.62× | 64 |
| Current ratio (4.9%) | 1.06 | 50 |
| Interest coverage (3.7%) | 28.34× | 80 |
Cash flow
weight 12.33% · 55| FCF margin (6.2%) | 52.3% | 91 |
| FCF yield (6.2%) | 3.2% | 18 |
Valuation
weight 12.33% · 8| P/E (inverted) (6.2%) | 33.96× | 13 |
| EV/Sales (inverted) (6.2%) | 15.90× | 3 |
Technicals (EOD)
| RSI(14) | 75.1 |
| EMA 9 / 21 | 596.81 / 583.42 |
| 200-day SMA | 533.00 |
| Volume vs 20d avg | 1.10× |
| 20-day return | 9.1% |
Exit-rule monitor
- EXITRating break: House Rating below 60
Data source per metric (SEC XBRL tag or derivation): Revenue: Revenues · Operating income: OperatingIncomeLoss · Interest expense: InterestExpenseNonoperating · D&A: DepreciationAndAmortization · EPS: EarningsPerShareDiluted · Market cap: SEC shares (us-gaap weighted basic shares, latest quarter (proxy)) × EOD close · P/E: EOD close ÷ SEC TTM EPS (EarningsPerShareDiluted).
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FAQ
- What is MA's House Rating?
- MA scores 59 out of 100 (grade C) as of 2026-10-16, ranking #4 of 38 Financials stocks we cover.
- What do analysts say about MA?
- ThetaGrade's analyst-sentiment pillar for MA scores 83/100 against its sector peers, which we read as positive. This is our own derived score; we do not republish individual analyst ratings, counts or targets.
- When does MA report earnings next?
- MA's next earnings report is estimated for about 2026-10-29 (window 2026-10-26 to 2026-11-01), based on its past SEC 8-K earnings filings. This is an estimate, not a company-confirmed date.
- Is MA a buy?
- ThetaGrade does not give personal advice. The House Rating is an educational, rules-based summary of public data; see the methodology for how it is built.
Sources: SEC EDGAR filings (fetched 2026-10-18), Finnhub recommendation trends, Massive EOD prices. Scores are sector percentiles; a factor without usable data is a data gap: it is left out and the remaining weights are renormalized (nothing is imputed). Educational only. Methodology