28 Dec 2018 Market experts who cover Mastercard preach patience with the stock, noting that “We prefer Mastercard over Visa (V), given higher constant currency revenue growth estimated over the next two years of 15 percent versus 12 percent.” Togut is especially bullish on MA's stock price, pegging one-year share  Visa usually trades at a premium to the S&P 500, and that's certainly the case today, with its price-to-earnings ratio of 34. However, the number drops to about 25.6 when using next year's earnings estimates. Mastercard stock also trades at a premium to the market -- around 42 times trailing earnings.