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Ranks companies inside the Financial Rails and Payments theme by quality, growth and cash-generation signals.
Theme-level quality and growth rankings refreshed by Datafin.
Theme leaders are tracked by growth, profitability and cash generation.
| Stock | Sales growth | Quality strength |
|---|---|---|
| MA | 16.8% | 161.7% |
| CPAY | 18.3% | 31% |
| MTRKS.IS | 13.6% | 22.3% |
| ENX.PA | 12.1% | 13.7% |
| V | 14.4% | 55% |
| BR | 8.2% | 31.8% |
| CBOE | 10.6% | 25.7% |
| MCO | 9% | 52.6% |
| FDS | 6.5% | 21.3% |
| JKHY | 8.4% | 21.5% |
| CME | 7.5% | 15.5% |
| NDAQ | 5.8% | 13% |
Payments combine high margins with network effects; the ranking favors firms turning that structural edge into consistent cash generation.
It rewards the toll-booth economics that actually reach the bank, not just the headline scale of the network.
The median P/E of every theme we cover; a lower bar marks a more cheaply priced theme. This analysis’ theme is highlighted.
The dark bar is this page’s theme. The lighter bars are the other themes we cover.
Latest published or live-generated results from the official Datafin analysis.
| # | Stock | Score | Sales Growth | EPS Growth | Return on Equity(ROE) | Return on Invested Capital(ROIC) | Free Cash Flow | PEG Ratio | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇺🇸 | MA.US Mastercard Inc | 91 | 16.75% | 21.02% | 232.51% | 90.94% | $17.7B | 1.83 |
| 2 | 🇺🇸 | CPAY.US Corpay Inc | 88 | 18.26% | 21.02% | 33.79% | 28.11% | $1.3B | 0.95 |
| 3 | 🇹🇷 | MTRKS.IS Matriks Finansal Teknolojiler A.S. | 87 | 13.64% | 50.4% | 29.39% | 15.3% | $862.7K | 0.16 |
| 4 | 🇫🇷 | ENX.PA Euronext N.V. | 84 | 12.11% | 78.47% | 14.98% | 12.32% | $1.2B | 0.16 |
| 5 | 🇺🇸 | V.US Visa Inc. Class A | 79 | 14.37% | 10.53% | 60.35% | 49.56% | $21.2B | 3.83 |
| 6 | 🇺🇸 | BR.US Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc | 77 | 8.19% | 79.4% | 43.61% | 19.92% | $1.3B | 0.28 |
| 7 | 🇺🇸 | CBOE.US Cboe Global Markets Inc | 76 | 10.61% | 53.38% | 25.14% | 26.19% | $975.4M | 0.45 |
| 8 | 🇺🇸 | MCO.US Moodys Corporation | 75 | 8.95% | 20.28% | 74.54% | 30.75% | $3.0B | 2.16 |
| 9 | 🇺🇸 | FDS.US FactSet Research Systems Inc | 74 | 6.51% | 107.11% | 28.08% | 14.42% | $682.9M | 0.13 |
| 10 | 🇺🇸 | JKHY.US Jack Henry & Associates Inc | 72 | 8.44% | 22.69% | 24.89% | 18.15% | $727.6M | 0.89 |
| 11 | 🇺🇸 | CME.US CME Group Inc | 67 | 7.54% | 16.02% | 15.82% | 15.11% | $4.3B | 1.52 |
| 12 | 🇺🇸 | NDAQ.US Nasdaq Inc | 60 | 5.77% | 51.77% | 16.23% | 9.77% | $2.0B | 0.52 |
| 13 | 🇺🇸 | SPGI.US S&P Global Inc | 57 | 8.54% | 24.77% | 14.8% | 8.89% | $5.6B | 1.01 |
| 14 | 🇺🇸 | MSCI.US MSCI Inc | 57 | 10.86% | 22.52% | -70.71% | 44.75% | $1.5B | 1.48 |
| 15 | 🇨🇦 | X.TO TMX Group Limited | 46 | 546.53% | -10.93% | 9.56% | 4.98% | $839.2M | -4.07 |