Mastercard Incorporated is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in the Mastercard International Global Headquarters in Purchase, New York. The Global Operations Headquarters is located in O'Fallon, Missouri, a municipality of St. Charles County, Missouri. Throughout the world, its principal business is to process payments between the banks of merchants and the card-issuing banks or credit unions of the purchasers who use the Mastercard brand debit, credit and prepaid cards to make purchases. Mastercard Worldwide has been a publicly traded company since 2006.
| Revenue (TTM) | $35.08B |
| Gross Profit (TTM) | $35.08B |
| EBITDA | $22.20B |
| Operating Margin | 61.10% |
| Return on Equity | 241.20% |
| Return on Assets | 24.10% |
| Revenue/Share (TTM) | $39.27 |
| Book Value | $6.40 |
| Price-to-Book | 88.88 |
| Price-to-Sales (TTM) | 14.04 |
| EV/Revenue | 14.59 |
| EV/EBITDA | 23.14 |
| Quarterly Earnings Growth (YoY) | 22.10% |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth (YoY) | 14.10% |
| Shares Outstanding | $869.46M |
| Float | $868.35M |
| % Insiders | 0.11% |
| % Institutions | 91.55% |
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