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MA vs ET: Dividend Comparison 2026

MA yields 0.64% · ET yields 6.76%● Live data

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After 10 years · $10,000 invested · DRIP enabled
🏆 MA wins by $403.8K in total portfolio value· pulled ahead in Year 8
10 years
MA
MA
● Live price
0.64%
Share price
$494.00
Annual div
$3.15
5Y div CAGR
91.8%
Payout ratio
50%
After 10 yrs · $10,000 · DRIP
Portfolio value
$497.2K
Annual income
$341,049.48
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ET
ET
● Live price
6.76%
Share price
$19.59
Annual div
$1.33
5Y div CAGR
24.5%
Payout ratio
50%
After 10 yrs · $10,000 · DRIP
Portfolio value
$93.4K
Annual income
$21,965.29
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Portfolio growth — MA vs ET

📍 MA pulled ahead of the other in Year 8

Annual dividend income

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Recession Test — Did They Cut Dividends?

How each stock treated shareholders during the 3 biggest crises of the last 20 years

Crisis PeriodMAET
2008–2009
GFC
— No data— No data
2020 Q1–Q2
COVID
— No data— No data
2022 Q4
Rate Hike
— No data— No data
Based on dividend payment history. "Increased" = dividend grew during crisis. "Maintained" = held within 3%. "Cut" = reduced by more than 3%.
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Dividend Calendar Overlap

Combined, MA + ET cover 0 of 12 monthsgood coverage

Jan
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Apr
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Aug
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MA pays
ET pays
Both pay
Neither
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Tax Bracket Optimizer

Which stock is actually better after tax? Adjust your rate to find out.

MA
Annual income on $10K today (after 15% tax)
$54.20/yr
After 10yr DRIP, annual income (after tax)
$289,892.06/yr
ET
Annual income on $10K today (after 15% tax)
$574.91/yr
After 10yr DRIP, annual income (after tax)
$18,670.50/yr
At 15% tax rate, MA beats the other by $271,221.56/year in after-tax income after 10 years on $10,000
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Lazy Portfolio Split Optimizer

What's the optimal mix of MA + ET for your $10,000?

MA: 50%ET: 50%
100% ET50/50100% MA
Portfolio after 10yr
$295.3K
Annual income
$181,507.38/yr
Blended yield
61.47%
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Analyst Conviction Gap

Where Wall Street is most bullish on MA right now

MA
Analyst Ratings
1
Strong
51
Buy
12
Hold
Consensus: Buy
Price Target
$667.33
+35.1% upside vs current
Range: $610.00 — $739.00
Altman Z
9.7
Piotroski
8/9
ET
Analyst Ratings
1
Strong
27
Buy
4
Hold
Consensus: Buy
Price Target
$18.00
-8.1% upside vs current
Range: $17.00 — $19.00
Altman Z
1.3
Piotroski
6/9
Analyst ratings via FMP. Altman Z-Score: >3.0 safe, 1.81–3.0 grey zone, <1.81 distress. Piotroski: 7–9 strong, 0–3 weak.
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Copy Congress — What Are Politicians Buying?

Senate & House STOCK Act disclosures (last 90 days)

MA buys
8
ET buys
0
PoliticianChamberTickerTypeAmountDate
Sheldon Whitehouse🏛 Senate$MA▼ Sell$1,001 - $15,0002026-02-23
Markwayne Mullin🏛 Senate$MA▲ Buy$50,001 - $100,0002025-12-29
Markwayne Mullin🏛 Senate$MA▲ Buy$50,001 - $100,0002025-12-29
Michael McCaul🏢 House$MA▼ Sell$1,001 - $15,0002025-10-27
Gilbert Cisneros🏢 House$MA▲ Buy$1,001 - $15,0002025-10-17
Val Hoyle🏢 House$MA▼ Sell$1,001 - $15,0002025-09-23
Ro Khanna🏢 House$MA▲ Buy$1,000 - $15,0002025-08-04
Lisa McClain🏢 House$MA▼ Sell$1,001 - $15,0002025-06-24
Lisa McClain🏢 House$MA▲ Buy$1,001 - $15,0002025-06-17
Michael McCaul🏢 House$MA▼ Sell$15,001 - $50,0002025-06-16
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MetricMAET
Forward yield0.64%6.76%
Annual dividend / share$3.15$1.33
Payout ratio50%50%
1-year div growth0%0%
5-year div CAGR91.8%24.5%
Portfolio after 10y$497.2K$93.4K
Annual income after 10y$341,049.48$21,965.29
Total dividends collected$463.2K$64.0K
Payment frequencyquarterlyquarterly
SectorFinancialsEnergy
Analyst consensusBuyBuy
Analyst price target$667.33$18.00

Year-by-year: MA vs ET ($10,000, DRIP)

YearMA PortfolioMA Income/yrET PortfolioET Income/yrGap
1$10,822$122.30$11,542$842.08$720.00ET
2$11,817$237.26$13,481$1,130.89$1.7KET
3$13,109$464.38$15,961$1,536.88$2.9KET
4$14,950$923.39$19,196$2,117.29$4.2KET
5$17,884$1,887.66$23,503$2,962.82$5.6KET
6$23,183$4,047.78$29,369$4,220.80$6.2KET
7$34,212$9,405.89$37,561$6,136.87$3.3KET
8← crossover$61,488$24,880.97$49,323$9,132.50+$12.2KMA
9$145,949$80,157.01$66,729$13,953.56+$79.2KMA
10$497,215$341,049.48$93,366$21,965.29+$403.8KMA

MA vs ET: Complete Analysis 2026

MAFinancials

Mastercard Incorporated, a technology company, provides transaction processing and other payment-related products and services in the United States and internationally. It facilitates the processing of payment transactions, including authorization, clearing, and settlement, as well as delivers other payment-related products and services. The company offers integrated products and value-added services for account holders, merchants, financial institutions, businesses, governments, and other organizations, such as programs that enable issuers to provide consumers with credits to defer payments; prepaid programs and management services; commercial credit and debit payment products and solutions; and payment products and solutions that allow its customers to access funds in deposit and other accounts. It also provides value-added products and services comprising cyber and intelligence solutions for parties to transact, as well as proprietary insights, drawing on principled use of consumer, and merchant data services. In addition, the company offers analytics, test and learn, consulting, managed services, loyalty, processing, and payment gateway solutions for e-commerce merchants. Further, it provides open banking and digital identity platforms services. The company offers payment solutions and services under the MasterCard, Maestro, and Cirrus. Mastercard Incorporated was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Purchase, New York.

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ETEnergy

Energy Transfer LP provides energy-related services. The company owns and operates approximately 11,600 miles of natural gas transportation pipeline, and three natural gas storage facilities in Texas and two natural gas storage facilities located in the state of Texas and Oklahoma; and 19,830 miles of interstate natural gas pipeline. It also sells natural gas to electric utilities, independent power plants, local distribution and other marketing companies, and industrial end-users. The company owns and operates natural gas gathering and natural gas liquid (NGL) pipeline, processing plant, and treating and conditioning facilities in Texas, New Mexico, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, and Louisiana; natural gas gathering, oil pipeline, and oil stabilization facilities in South Texas; and a natural gas gathering system in Ohio, as well as transport and supplies water to natural gas producer in Pennsylvania. It owns approximately 5,215 miles of NGL pipeline; NGL and propane fractionation facilities; NGL storage facilities with working storage capacity of approximately 50 million barrels (MMBbls); and other NGL storage assets and terminal with an aggregate storage capacity of approximately 17 MMBbls. The company provides crude oil transportation, terminalling, acquisition, and marketing activities; and sells and distributes gasoline, middle distillate, and motor fuels and other petroleum product. It offers natural gas compression service; carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide removal, natural gas cooling, dehydration, and British thermal unit management service; and manages coal and natural resources properties, as well as sells standing timber, leases coal-related infrastructure facilities, collects oil and gas royalty, and generate electrical power. The company was formerly known as Energy Transfer Equity, L.P. and changed its name to Energy Transfer LP in October 2018. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

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