Mastercard: easily beats consensus in first quarter
(CercleFinance.com) - Mastercard has got off to a strong start this year, with the group announcing before Wall Street opens on Wednesday Q1 EPS of 1.
41 dollar, against 1 dollar a year ago.
Excluding extraordinary items, EPS of the US payment systems specialist came in at 1.5 dollar, after 1.01 dollar and 1.25 dollar expected by the consensus.
Meanwhile, revenues amounted to 3.58 billion dollars, compared to 2.73 billion dollars at the end of Q1 2017. Analysts were also less confident here - on average, expecting revenues to increase to 3.25 billion dollars.
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41 dollar, against 1 dollar a year ago.
Excluding extraordinary items, EPS of the US payment systems specialist came in at 1.5 dollar, after 1.01 dollar and 1.25 dollar expected by the consensus.
Meanwhile, revenues amounted to 3.58 billion dollars, compared to 2.73 billion dollars at the end of Q1 2017. Analysts were also less confident here - on average, expecting revenues to increase to 3.25 billion dollars.
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