MA
The ownership breakdown for MA tells an interesting story.
The institutional pressure score of 0.00 and market regime score of 0.01 both read as essentially flat neutral, meaning the 13F-derived signal isn't picking up meaningful net buying or selling pressure from the institutional base right now. That's not a nothing — for a stock with this kind of quality compounder representation, neutral pressure can simply mean the long-term holders are sitting on their hands, which is what they're supposed to do. The P/E of 29.2 is reasonable for a payments network with Mastercard's margin profile, though the market cap figure of $436,801 trillion in the dataset is clearly a data error and should be ignored entirely — Mastercard's actual market cap is in the low hundreds of billions range. As always, 13F filings are filed with a 45-to-90-day delay, meaning this ownership picture is already stale by the time it's analyzed. Institutional positioning can shift meaningfully within that window, and none of this historical data predicts future price movement — it only describes where certain money was parked, not where it's going.
§ 03 · SIGNAL STACK · WHAT THE INPUTS SAY
§ 04 · FUNDAMENTALS · THE BOOKS
| P/E | 29.2 | P/S | — |
| EV/EBITDA | — | P/B | 66.26 |
| Revenue (TTM) | — | Rev YoY | — |
| Gross margin | — | Op margin | — |
| Net income | — | FCF | — |
| Cash | — | Debt | — |
| Dividend | 0.72% | Buybacks 1Y | — |
The ownership breakdown for MA tells an interesting story. Quality compounder funds — the patient, long-duration money that tends to buy businesses with durable competitive advantages and hold them for years — account for 19.1% of classified institutional ownership. Passive index funds sit at 21.2%, which for a mega-cap like Mastercard is roughly expected given its weight across major indices. What's notable is the near-total absence of activist interest (0.0%) and minimal deep value positioning (0.2%), which suggests institutions aren't viewing this as a turnaround play or a cheap asset — they're here for the franchise. The 51.8% "other unclassified" bucket is large enough to warrant some humility about what the data is actually telling us.
| Fund | Shares | % port | Δ Q/Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard Group | 71.7M | 0.6% | — |
| MASTERCARD FOUNDATION ASSET MANAGEMENT CORP | 70.1M | 97.4% | — |
| State Street | 36.6M | 0.7% | — |
| BlackRock, Inc. | 26.0M | 0.3% | +50% |
| JPMORGAN CHASE & CO | 22.0M | 0.8% | — |
| Geode Capital Management | 18.3M | 0.6% | +726% |
Top institutional owners for MA as of the most recent 13F window (Dec 2025). Δ Q/Q reflects share-count change vs. the prior filing — positive green means adding, negative red means trimming. Cross-reference with the ownership-mix bars below to see which strategy cohort is driving the flow.
§ 06 · WHO OWNS IT · BY STRATEGY
Ownership mix by behavioral cohort. Top bars indicate which style of capital dominates the float — passive indexing, quality compounders, dealer/bank, systematic quant, etc. Big quality-compounder share means concentrated active conviction; heavy passive share means flows are dictated by index rebalances, not fundamentals.
§ 07 · INSIDER ACTIVITY · LAST 180 DAYS
No Form 4 filings on record for MA in the last 180 days.