This dominant payments business should be on every investor's radar. Mastercard (MA 0.38%) recently reported its 2024 first-quarter results. Revenue and diluted earnings per share (EPS) came in ahead of Wall Street estimates, but because the market is a forward-looking machine, investors were probably disappointed that executives slightly lowered their sales guidance for the full year. Nonetheless, this financial stock has been a big winner for shareholders in the past decade, rising almost 500% during that ...