Mastercard (MA) Return on Assets (2016 - 2025)

Mastercard's Return on Assets history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 0.28% for Q4 2025.

For Q4 2025, Return on Assets rose 1.0% year-over-year to 0.28%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.28%, up 1.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.29%, 1.0% up from the prior year.
Return on Assets reached 0.28% in Q4 2025 per MA's latest filing, up from 0.27% in the prior quarter.
In the past five years, Return on Assets ranged from a high of 0.29% in Q2 2024 to a low of 0.19% in Q1 2021.
Average Return on Assets over 5 years is 0.26%, with a median of 0.27% recorded in 2024.
Peak YoY movement for Return on Assets: decreased -7bps in 2021, then grew 6bps in 2022.
A 5-year view of Return on Assets shows it stood at 0.24% in 2021, then increased by 9bps to 0.26% in 2022, then grew by 5bps to 0.27% in 2023, then decreased by -1bps to 0.27% in 2024, then grew by 3bps to 0.28% in 2025.
Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for MA's Return on Assets are 0.28% (Q4 2025), 0.27% (Q3 2025), and 0.27% (Q2 2025).

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