Mastercard Incorporated, is longside VISA one of the two major international companies for payment cards (credit cards, debit cards and prepaid cards).
Mastercard issues licenses to banks all over the world for the issuance of their cards (issuing licenses) and for the recruitment of contractors (acquiring licenses). The acceptance of the Mastercard is around 35 million contracting companies and around one million cash payment offices worldwide (as of 2014).
According to Mastercard's latest financial reports and stock price the company's current number of shares outstanding is 903,000,000. At the end of 2025 the company had 903,000,000 shares outstanding. The number of outstanding shares is usually impacted by stock plits and shares buy back.