MA · NYSE · CIK 0001141391
Mastercard Incorporated
No equity stake in another company appears in Mastercard Incorporated's filings. That is the sourced answer, not a hole in the research.
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Who owns Mastercard Incorporated.
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The full register, from 13F filings
The Register tab above is hand research: a dozen holders, each traced to the filing it came from. This asks the same question of the whole market for the quarter ended 31-mar-2026, where 3,564 managers reported a position. Broad where the research is deep, and shallow in the ways a 13F always is.
3,564 managers reported a position, together holding 767.5m shares, or 87.6% of the company. The 40 largest are listed.
Built from 13F filings, which report US listed, long, US custodied positions only. A register from this source is a floor rather than a level: a holder's true position can be far larger, as BlackRock's ASML stake shows at 1.28m shares in a 13F against 26.3m in its 13G/A. Holdings held through derivatives, outside US custody, or below a manager's reporting obligation do not appear. Where a holder is marked as a family, its total sums several separate filing entities and describes something no single filing describes; the constituent entities and their share counts are listed so the total can be checked. That roll-up can legitimately exceed the family's own Schedule 13G, because a 13G is filed by one legal entity: Vanguard reports Alphabet through ten advisory entities, and The Vanguard Group Inc itself reported zero after its January 2026 disaggregation.
What a reader needs to know to read these numbers
- Mastercard has two classes of common stock. Class A common stock (ticker MA, NYSE) is the only publicly traded and only voting class: one vote per share on all matters. Class B common stock is non-voting, not publicly traded or listed on any exchange, and is held only by certain customers (member financial institutions); it was distributed in connection with Mastercard's 2006 IPO. Holders of Class B stock have no voting power except as Delaware law may require. Source: 2026 DEF 14A ('About the Annual Meeting and voting' section) and 10-Q for the quarter ended 30 Jun 2026.
- company.shares_outstanding (876,009,940) is the sum of the two raw share-class counts on the 10-Q cover page as of 27 Jul 2026: Class A 869,464,115, Class B 6,545,825. All register pct_of_company figures instead use the balance-sheet-date Class A share count from 10-Q Note 10 (870,700,000 as of 30 Jun 2026, or 887,300,000 as of 31 Dec 2025 for the Vanguard 13F row) or the proxy's own Class A denominator (877,780,670 as of 21 Apr 2026), since every register holder here holds Class A only and using the cover-page date would mismatch the as_of date of each holding.
- Mastercard does not file Form 13F itself. Its complete EDGAR filing history (submissions JSON, checked 17 Aug 2026) contains no 13F-HR of any vintage under CIK 0001141391.
- Mastercard's holdings list is empty and that is the sourced finding, not a gap. The Q2 FY2026 10-Q (period ended 30 Jun 2026, filed 30 Jul 2026) discloses Equity Investments only in aggregate: Marketable securities (equity investments with readily determinable fair values) and Nonmarketable securities, which as of 30 Jun 2026 comprised Measurement alternative investments of $1,242 million and Equity method investments of $282 million, totaling $1,524 million in Nonmarketable securities. No individual investee company is named or sized anywhere in the 10-Q or (per the exemplar file for this project, applying the same method) the FY2025 10-K. Per the brief, a combined balance covering many investees does not size any one of them, so no named holding is recorded.
- The Mastercard Foundation is the notable strategic holder the brief flags. It is a Canadian charitable foundation created in connection with Mastercard's 2006 IPO. Its shares of Class A common stock (held via its wholly owned investment-manager subsidiary, Mastercard Foundation Asset Management Corporation, MFAM, since 1 Feb 2024) represented greater than 5% of Mastercard's general voting power per the FY2025 10-K risk factors. Governance provisions tied to the Foundation, per the same 10-K: Mastercard stockholders cannot cumulate votes or act by written consent, and any representative of a Mastercard or Mastercard Foundation competitor is disqualified from serving on Mastercard's board. Foundation directors must be independent of Mastercard and its customers.
- Mastercard Foundation's shares were historically subject to a transfer restriction (originally through 1 May 2027). In July 2023 the Foundation obtained court approval to advance that date to 1 Jan 2024, and in March 2024 it began selling shares under an orderly, structured plan to diversify its holdings over a seven-year period while committing to remain a long-term Mastercard stockholder. This means the Foundation's stake has been shrinking by design since March 2024; the 65,234,702-share, 7.4 percent figure used here (13G/A dated 16 Apr 2026, reproduced in the 27 Apr 2026 DEF 14A) is the most current sourced figure, not a peak historical one.
- Vanguard and BlackRock disagreements, recorded rather than resolved. The register uses each manager's own Form 13F-HR: Vanguard 79,897,854 shares as of 31 Dec 2025 (most recent 13F-HR on file for CIK 0000102909; no 13F-HR was found for the quarters ended 31 Mar or 30 Jun 2026, consistent with Vanguard filing 13F-NT/notice for some quarters and other affiliated Vanguard entities reporting instead), and BlackRock 66,393,565 shares as of 30 Jun 2026. Mastercard's 2026 DEF 14A instead cites stale Schedule 13G/A filings for both: Vanguard 71,670,525 sole dispositive plus shared amounts (13G/A dated 13 Feb 2024) and BlackRock 67,825,777 shares, 7.7 percent (13G/A dated 12 Feb 2024). The 13F figures used in the register are more current for BlackRock and give a specific number for Vanguard that the proxy's rounded percentage does not.
- No individual, family or founder controls a large block of Mastercard Class A stock. Insider ownership (all current directors and executive officers as a group) is 0.086 percent of Class A shares outstanding; no non-Foundation strategic or sovereign holder above 1 percent was identified within the time budget.
- market_cap_usd and market_cap_as_of are left null. No page giving a current, dated Mastercard market capitalization was fetched in this task; rather than compute an unsourced figure from shares outstanding times an unsourced share price, the field is left null per the never-invent-a-number rule.
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Recorded rather than filled in. Each of these is a place where a number could have been invented and was not.
- No individually named, material equity stake held by Mastercard in another public or private company was found. Searched the Q2 FY2026 10-Q (ma-20260630.htm) for 'equity investment', 'non-marketable', 'measurement alternative', 'equity method', 'unrealized gain' and 'other investments'; all hits describe only the aggregate Marketable securities and Nonmarketable securities ($1,524 million combined Nonmarketable as of 30 Jun 2026) balances with no per-investee breakdown.
- market_cap_usd could not be sourced within the time budget; no dated market-cap page (e.g. stockanalysis.com or similar) was fetched for Mastercard in this task.
- Capital Research/Capital Group, T. Rowe Price, and Norges Bank positions were not sourced within the time budget; only the eight institutional managers listed (Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street, JPMorgan, FMR/Fidelity, Geode, Morgan Stanley) plus the Foundation and insiders were pulled from filings.
- No holder-level breakdown of the transfer-restricted, non-traded Class B common stock (member financial institutions) was found; only the aggregate Class B share count (6,545,825 as of 27 Jul 2026) is known, not individual member-bank holders.
- Whether any other Schedule 13D/13G has been filed on Mastercard common stock more recently than the ones already cited (Vanguard and BlackRock, both dated Feb 2024, and Mastercard Foundation, dated 16 Apr 2026) was not exhaustively checked beyond the filings surfaced in Mastercard's own EDGAR filing list and the 2026 DEF 14A beneficial-ownership table.
