Best financial stocks

Mastercard runs one of the world's largest payment networks.

American Express is both the payments network and the issuing bank for its cards, focused on affluent customers and businesses.

Robinhood is the broker that turned the stock market into an app: zero commissions, video-game design and an entire generation of first-time investors as its clientele.

Arch Capital is a Bermuda insurer and reinsurer with a sharpshooter's reputation: it enters and exits each business line by the price of risk, married to none.

RenaissanceRe is the catastrophe reinsurer: from Bermuda, it models and assumes the hurricane and earthquake risks nobody else can price, for itself and for the third-party capital it manages.

Cincinnati Financial is the property insurer of quiet America: commercial and home policies sold only through local independent agents, with whom it cultivates decades-long relationships.

Blackstone is the world's largest alternative-asset manager.

Ameriprise Financial is a network of financial advisors: more than ten thousand professionals managing the retirement and wealth of upper-middle-class America, plus a global asset manager.

First Citizens is the family bank that swallowed a giant: run by the Holding family for three generations, it leapt from regional bank to colossus by taking over Silicon Valley Bank after its 2023 collapse — the decade's most profitable bank purchase.

Visa runs the world's largest payments network.