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Side-by-side financial comparison of HSBC HOLDINGS PLC (HSBC) and Mastercard (MA), based on the latest 10-Q / 10-K filings. Click either name above to swap in a different company.
HSBC Holdings plc is a British universal bank and financial services group headquartered in London, England, with historical and business links to East Asia and a multinational footprint. It is the largest Europe-based bank by total assets, ahead of BNP Paribas, with US$3.098 trillion as of September 2024. This also puts it as the 7th largest bank in the world by total assets behind Bank of America, and the 3rd largest non-state owned bank in the world.
Mastercard Inc. is an American multinational payment card services corporation headquartered in Purchase, New York. It offers a range of payment transaction processing and other related-payment services. Throughout the world, its principal business is to process payments between the banks of merchants and the card-issuing banks or credit unions of the purchasers who use the Mastercard-brand debit, credit and prepaid cards to make purchases. Mastercard has been publicly traded since 2006.
8-Quarter Revenue & Profit Trend
Side-by-side quarterly history — bar widths are scaled to the larger of the two companies so you can eyeball the size gap and growth trajectory without doing math. Quarters aligned by calendar period (report date) so offset fiscal years line up.
| Q4 25 | — | $8.8B | ||
| Q3 25 | — | $8.6B | ||
| Q2 25 | — | $8.1B | ||
| Q1 25 | — | $7.3B | ||
| Q4 24 | — | $7.5B | ||
| Q3 24 | — | $7.4B | ||
| Q2 24 | — | $7.0B | ||
| Q1 24 | — | $6.3B |
| Q4 25 | — | $4.1B | ||
| Q3 25 | — | $3.9B | ||
| Q2 25 | — | $3.7B | ||
| Q1 25 | — | $3.3B | ||
| Q4 24 | — | $3.3B | ||
| Q3 24 | — | $3.3B | ||
| Q2 24 | — | $3.3B | ||
| Q1 24 | — | $3.0B |
| Q4 25 | — | 55.8% | ||
| Q3 25 | — | 58.8% | ||
| Q2 25 | — | 58.7% | ||
| Q1 25 | — | 57.2% | ||
| Q4 24 | — | 52.6% | ||
| Q3 24 | — | 54.3% | ||
| Q2 24 | — | 58.0% | ||
| Q1 24 | — | 56.8% |
| Q4 25 | — | 46.1% | ||
| Q3 25 | — | 45.7% | ||
| Q2 25 | — | 45.5% | ||
| Q1 25 | — | 45.2% | ||
| Q4 24 | — | 44.6% | ||
| Q3 24 | — | 44.3% | ||
| Q2 24 | — | 46.8% | ||
| Q1 24 | — | 47.4% |
| Q4 25 | — | $4.52 | ||
| Q3 25 | — | $4.34 | ||
| Q2 25 | — | $4.07 | ||
| Q1 25 | — | $3.59 | ||
| Q4 24 | — | $3.64 | ||
| Q3 24 | — | $3.53 | ||
| Q2 24 | — | $3.50 | ||
| Q1 24 | — | $3.22 |
Financial Flow Comparison
Sankey diagram of revenue → gross profit → operating profit → net profit for each company. Charts shown full-width and stacked so both segment hierarchies are readable side-by-side on desktop and mobile.
