5 Best Value Stocks to Buy for 2021

1. Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE: MA)

Gardner Russo & Gardner initiated a position in Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE: MA) in 2008 and it is the largest stock holding based on Q4 filings, accounting for 14% of the overall 13F portfolio. Despite underperformance in the last twelve months, shares of Mastercard grew 1250% in the last ten years. The payment technology company raised dividends in the last ten successive years.

In the Q3 investor’s letter, Del Principe O’Brien Financial Advisors highlighted few stocks including Mastercard Incorporated. Here is what Del Principe O’Brien Financial Advisors stated:

“The market pullback in the spring gave us a chance to become owners of Mastercard, one of the biggest players in the global payments industry. In the fiscal year 2019, the company processed almost $5 trillion in purchase transactions and holds 29% of the global market share for credit cards and 24% of the global market for debit cards.

In June, Mastercard entered into an agreement to acquire Finicity, a financial data and insight provider, for a purchase price of $825 million. The move is meant to strengthen Mastercard’s existing open banking platform. Open banking is a system that gives third parties, including other banks and tech start-ups that provide financial services (think budgeting apps), digital access to financial data. A user-focused innovation in the banking industry, open banking is thought to be the future of banking. We see an active investment in its open banking platform as a good move for Mastercard toward maintaining its leadership in the global market.”

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