S&P Global merged with IHS Markit bloating the balance sheet and making their ROC appear lower. If you were to exclude this merger, they still earn great returns on capital, but hopefully they can regain above 20% ROCE.
Mastercard's earnings dropped significantly in 2020 following the pandemic, and as they have a really high ROCE/ROIC, they are more suseptible to reduction as earnings fall. Additionally, they made a large acquisition in 2020 that increased the size of their balance sheet. Visa had a similar drop in earnings, but as a % it not have the same impact on ROCE.
Why Spglobal, moody and MAstercard had negative roce lately ?Wired that Visa Roce is different from -mastercard
S&P Global merged with IHS Markit bloating the balance sheet and making their ROC appear lower. If you were to exclude this merger, they still earn great returns on capital, but hopefully they can regain above 20% ROCE.
Mastercard's earnings dropped significantly in 2020 following the pandemic, and as they have a really high ROCE/ROIC, they are more suseptible to reduction as earnings fall. Additionally, they made a large acquisition in 2020 that increased the size of their balance sheet. Visa had a similar drop in earnings, but as a % it not have the same impact on ROCE.
All really great companies,but all quite pricey too.
Yes, we should aim to buy these when they are on temporary discounts