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Mastercard (MA) FCF Margin (2016 - 2026)

Mastercard filings provide 18 years of FCF Margin readings, the most recent being 33.56% for Q1 2026.

  • On a quarterly basis, FCF Margin rose 346.0% to 33.56% in Q1 2026 year-over-year; TTM through Mar 2026 was 51.73%, a 85.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 51.61%, up 169.0% from a year prior.
  • FCF Margin hit 33.56% in Q1 2026 for Mastercard, down from 52.84% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, FCF Margin ranged from a high of 68.25% in Q3 2024 to a low of 22.86% in Q1 2024.
  • Median FCF Margin over the past 5 years was 47.9% (2023), compared with a mean of 46.92%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in FCF Margin: tumbled -1621bps in 2023 and later surged 2035bps in 2024.
  • Mastercard's FCF Margin stood at 49.7% in 2022, then rose by 14bps to 56.61% in 2023, then increased by 6bps to 59.99% in 2024, then dropped by -12bps to 52.84% in 2025, then plummeted by -36bps to 33.56% in 2026.
  • The last three reported values for FCF Margin were 33.56% (Q1 2026), 52.84% (Q4 2025), and 65.72% (Q3 2025) per Business Quant data.