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Mastercard

Mastercard's head office is located in Jersey City. The core activities of Mastercard are in the financial services sector. Ajaypal Singh Banga is the CEO of the company. Martina HundMejean is financially responsible for the company as CFO. The global financial companies gained around 15 percent worldwide over the last 10 years. Measured since 2011 the sector is 38 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-2016) there is a minus of 15 percent.

The past year was a good investment year for Mastercard investors

The period between December 2015 and December 2016 was a good period for the investors. The stock gained almost 7 percent. The period between August 2011 and August 2016 was a profitable period for the investors. The stock rose on average 176 percent. Mastercard's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were far from constant and moved between 7,39 billion dollars and 9,67 billion dollars. Mastercard's net results between 2011 and 2015 were quite unstable and moved between 1,9 billion dollars and 3,81 billion dollars.

The American company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. On average Mastercard's dividend yield over the past 5 years was around 1,63 percent annually.

Mastercard' balance mostly financed with equity

At the end of 2015 the American company had a balance sheet of 16,27 billion dollars. The total debt of the financial company was at the end of 2015 10,24 billion dollars, which equals around 62,95 percent of the total balance sheet. The American company's price/earnings-ratio was 25. So the market valued the stock at 25 times the 2015' earnings per share. Many analysts say that based on her price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the American stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the financial company's market capitalization (the number of shares times the market price) equaled around 103,31 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 the American company had around 1,1 billion stocks listed.

All the annual reports of Mastercard are available here. More information about Mastercard can be found it's website. .