CHART OF THE DAY: Visa & Mastercard Quad Performance

08/19/21 08:55AM EDT

Below is a chart and brief excerpt from today's Early Look written by Financials analyst Drago Malesevic.

With inflation remaining in focus, we continue to favor the payments sector for the globally diversified and real-time inflation-hedged nature of revenues, particularly the open-loop card networks Visa (V) and Mastercard (MA) which have sold-off in the past few weeks on concerns over the delta variant.

Both V and MA have excellent track records under economic regimes characterized by decelerating growth and accelerating inflation. Just take a look at the charts of the day.

CHART OF THE DAY: Visa & Mastercard Quad Performance  - MA

CHART OF THE DAY: Visa & Mastercard Quad Performance  - V

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