Mastercard (MA) Stock: Price, Trend, Options & Financials
Mastercard's price regime, relative strength, unusual-options history, curated-manager ownership and filed fundamentals — joined into one dated stock intelligence page.
What the evidence says now
MA closed at $580.63 on Aug 21, 2026. The price is +8.0% from its 50-day average and +9.9% from its 200-day average, which places it in the rules-based “established uptrend” regime. The relative-strength check: over three months the stock returned +16.2%, beating SPY by 13.1%. It remains 3.5% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessLast updated 2026-08-21 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is +8.0% from its 50-day average and +9.9% from its 200-day average. Over three months, MA returned +16.2% versus +3.1% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- +8.0%
- vs 200-day
- +9.9%
- From 52W high
- -3.5%
Descriptive, not predictive. “Uptrend” is a rules-based reading of the close and moving averages; it is not a rating, price target or recommendation.
Price & regime
One year of daily price and volume
252 split-adjusted sessions · candles above, share volume below
Unusual options — attention, not intent
MA appeared in a UOA top-30 list on 0 of 62 archived scanner sessions: 0 call-side, 0 put-side and 0 on both lists. The latest session did not place it in either top 30. Its larger composite score was -0.06, below the 1.5 “strong” threshold. No archived session has cleared the issuer-level top-30 cutoff.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| No issuer-level top-30 flags in the current archive. | ||
Latest chain snapshot
2026-08-21Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. Current OTM volume/OI: 0.083 calls, 0.091 puts.
Curated-manager ownership
2 of the 20 managers in the project's curated 13F set reported a long Mastercard position in their latest filing, worth $680M in aggregate at each filing's reported value. This is a focused manager panel, not the complete institutional holder list.
| Fund / manager | Position value | Portfolio | Shares | Quarter change | Report date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fundsmith Terry Smith · MA | $639M | 4.69% | 1.25M | — new | 2026-06-30 |
Baron Capital Group Ron Baron · MA | $41M | 0.06% | 79,709 | -0.1% unchanged | 2026-06-30 |
Filed fundamentals — latest snapshot
Go deeper into the filings
The dedicated Financials dashboard carries the complete quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history, with derived figures flagged and every XBRL concept disclosed.
Open MA Financials →How MA trades — the working manual
Mastercard operates a global payments network rather than taking most consumer credit risk onto its own balance sheet. For the stock, payment volume, switched transactions and cross-border activity drive the core network economics, while client incentives, services growth and regulation determine how much activity becomes revenue and cash flow.
What can move the tape
- 01Gross dollar volume, switched transactions and the mix of consumer and commercial spending.
- 02Cross-border travel and ecommerce activity, which carry distinct network economics.
- 03Value-added services, cybersecurity and data products sold alongside payment processing.
- 04Client incentives, operating leverage, free-cash-flow conversion and capital returns.
What can fool the read
- 01Payments and interchange regulation can change network, merchant or issuer economics.
- 02Cross-border revenue is sensitive to travel, trade and economic slowdowns.
- 03Account-to-account systems, wallets and alternative rails can redirect transaction flows.
- 04Large client renewals and incentives can make reported revenue growth diverge from underlying volume.
No MA flags in the committed 2026-04-01–2026-08-21 archive. That means no session cleared this project's anomaly threshold; it does not mean trading volume was literally constant.
Not published yet. The local archive has 1 reported MA events—too few for a defensible gap-and-drift study. This missing block is an explicit indexing blocker.
Source map & freshness
| Block | What it uses | Vintage | Raw data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | SEC issuer + primary security mapping | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
| Price & trend | Split-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison | 2026-08-21 | CSV ↓ |
| Options | End-of-day chain anomaly ranks | 2026-08-21 | Premium → |
| Ownership | Latest filings from 20 curated 13F managers | 2026-08-21 | Tool → |
| Financials | SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts | 2026-08-16 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
MA stock questions
Is MA stock in an uptrend?+
MA is classified in the “established uptrend” regime as of 2026-08-21: the close is +8.0% from its 50-day average and +9.9% from its 200-day average. This describes the current tape. It is not a forecast.
What does unusual options activity in MA mean?+
MA has not appeared in either issuer-level top-30 list during the current archive. A future flag would identify an OTM chain outlier relative to the scanner universe. It would identify no buyer, seller, institution or spread leg.
Are the MA 13F holdings current?+
No. 13F filings are delayed quarter-end snapshots and cover only the curated managers in this project. They are useful for documented ownership changes, not real-time positioning or complete institutional ownership.
Where are MA's income statement and cash flow?+
The dedicated MA Financials page contains the full quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history parsed from SEC EDGAR XBRL. This stock page carries only the latest filed snapshot.
Why is there no MA earnings-move base rate yet?+
The committed earnings archive does not yet contain enough reported events for a defensible company-level reaction study. The page leaves that block unpublished instead of presenting a tiny sample as a reliable base rate.