COMMERCE INDEX · STAGE INDEX · PRICES THROUGH
Payments Stocks Index.
“Payment accepted” takes more than a button.
A gateway securely captures payment details; a processor routes messages; an acquirer serves the merchant. These roles may be bundled. Wallets can sit above card rails, while fraud tools help decide which orders to accept. dLocal also connects merchants to local payment methods.
Who pays whom The merchant pays an acceptance fee. Depending on the contract, it bundles interchange, network charges and the provider’s own fee. The processor does not keep the whole amount.
- Checkout & payments · equal weight
- +5.50%
- Full index
- +2.91%
- QQQ
- +2.69%
- SPY
- +2.16%
Since . Ranked #1 of 10 stages. Every member is reset to an equal share each month.
01 / THE LIVE RECORD
Checkout & payments against the market.
15 companies. All lines start at 100 on
.
Every member starts each month at 6.7%, so Apple, the largest by market value, counts the same as the smallest. That keeps one platform from deciding the stage.
02 / THE CONSTITUENTS
Who earns at this stage.
Earns from: Processing & service fees. Locked at the rebalance.
| Company | Map stages | Market cap | Equal weight | Since rebalance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAPL company storyApple | Checkout & payments | $4.89T | 6.33% | +0.2% |
| GOOGLAlphabet | Discovery & adsCloud, CDN & securityCheckout & payments | $4.14T | 6.39% | +1.0% |
| SHOPShopify | Storefront softwareCheckout & payments | $192.1B | 7.01% | +10.9% |
| MELI company storyMercadoLibre | Stores & marketplacesCheckout & paymentsWarehouses & robotsShipping & delivery | $87.6B | 6.79% | +7.5% |
| PYPLPayPal | Checkout & payments | $47.0B | 6.57% | +4.0% |
| XYZBlock | Checkout & payments | $44.0B | 6.58% | +4.1% |
| ADYEYAdyen | Checkout & payments | $30.9B | 6.22% | −1.5% |
| FISVFiserv | Checkout & payments | $24.2B | 6.36% | +0.7% |
| GPNGlobal Payments | Checkout & payments | $21.2B | 6.33% | +0.1% |
| DLO company storydLocal | Checkout & payments | $4.1B | 6.67% | +5.6% |
| FOURShift4 | Checkout & payments | $3.8B | 6.73% | +6.4% |
| PAGSPagBank | Checkout & payments | $2.5B | 7.61% | +20.4% |
| PAYOPayoneer | Checkout & payments | $2.4B | 6.33% | +0.1% |
| STNEStoneCo | Checkout & payments | $2.2B | 7.86% | +24.4% |
| RSKDRiskified | Checkout & payments | $1.1B | 6.22% | −1.5% |
No constituents match this search.
Weights are today’s drifted weights: each name was set to its target at the Sep 30, 2026 close and has moved with its price since. Market cap is the value locked at that rebalance. “Since rebalance” uses dividend-adjusted closes.
03 / HISTORICAL CONTEXT · NOT THE LIVE RECORD
The same members, applied to earlier years.
Today’s Checkout & payments members, rebalanced monthly from . Survivorship-biased by construction and kept separate from the live record.
| Series | Total return | Annualized | Max drawdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equal weight | +14.9% | +5.2% | -27.5% |
| QQQ | +83.3% | +24.6% | -22.8% |
| SPY | +65.7% | +20.1% | -18.8% |
Month by month · backcast returns, %, against the full index and benchmarks
| Index | Jan 24 | Feb 24 | Mar 24 | Apr 24 | May 24 | Jun 24 | Jul 24 | Aug 24 | Sep 24 | Oct 24 | Nov 24 | Dec 24 | Jan 25 | Feb 25 | Mar 25 | Apr 25 | May 25 | Jun 25 | Jul 25 | Aug 25 | Sep 25 | Oct 25 | Nov 25 | Dec 25 | Jan 26 | Feb 26 | Mar 26 | Apr 26 | May 26 | Jun 26 | Jul 26 | Aug 26 | Sep 26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commerce Index | -2.3 | 5.4 | 3.0 | -5.0 | 2.7 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 2.6 | 4.4 | 1.6 | 10 | -3.7 | 7.6 | -5.8 | -9.3 | -0.0 | 7.5 | 5.9 | 1.4 | 2.9 | 1.0 | -0.3 | -2.8 | 0.3 | -5.1 | -4.4 | -2.8 | 6.9 | 1.1 | -1.3 | 7.6 | 3.0 | -4.8 |
| Checkout & payments | -1.7 | 4.3 | 1.4 | -6.5 | -0.1 | -1.4 | 1.8 | 9.2 | -1.8 | 1.9 | 11 | -4.9 | 8.8 | -7.1 | -8.7 | 4.0 | 5.5 | 4.9 | -3.9 | 8.5 | -0.8 | -0.9 | -2.9 | -2.2 | -2.0 | -8.0 | -5.0 | 8.8 | -0.6 | -0.0 | 8.9 | 1.6 | -3.8 |
| QQQ | 1.8 | 5.3 | 1.3 | -4.4 | 6.2 | 6.5 | -1.7 | 1.1 | 2.6 | -0.9 | 5.4 | 0.5 | 2.2 | -2.7 | -7.6 | 1.4 | 9.2 | 6.4 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 5.4 | 4.8 | -1.6 | -0.7 | 1.2 | -2.3 | -4.8 | 16 | 11 | -0.2 | -6.6 | 4.2 | 3.3 |
| SPY | 1.6 | 5.2 | 3.3 | -4.0 | 5.1 | 3.5 | 1.2 | 2.3 | 2.1 | -0.9 | 6.0 | -2.4 | 2.7 | -1.3 | -5.6 | -0.9 | 6.3 | 5.1 | 2.3 | 2.1 | 3.6 | 2.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 1.5 | -0.9 | -4.9 | 11 | 5.3 | -1.0 | 0.0 | 2.7 | -0.3 |
QUESTIONS
About this stage index.
Same rules as the Commerce Index: monthly rebalance, cash-neutral membership changes, dividend-adjusted closes.
What is the Payments Stocks index?
The Checkout & payments index is a stage of the TechBreakdowns Commerce Index. It tracks the processors and wallets that move money at checkout: Apple, Alphabet, Shopify, MercadoLibre, PayPal, Block, Adyen, Fiserv, Global Payments, dLocal, Shift4, PagBank, Payoneer, StoneCo and Riskified. It is equal-weighted and rebalanced monthly, so every member counts the same regardless of size.
How has the Checkout & payments index performed?
From September 30, 2026 through October 6, 2026, the Checkout & payments index returned +5.50%, versus +2.69% for QQQ, +2.16% for SPY and +2.91% for the full Commerce Index. It ranks #1 of 10 stages.
Why is the Checkout & payments index equal-weighted?
Apple (AAPL) is the largest member by market value. A cap-weight index would count its whole company value and let it dominate the stage, so every member is reset to 6.7% at each monthly rebalance instead.
How are companies chosen?
Membership follows the TechBreakdowns commerce map. Every public company the map places in Checkout & payments is included, and changes to the map take effect at the next monthly rebalance. A company in several stages appears in each of them.
An independent, hypothetical research index, not an investable product or personalized investment advice. Levels exclude fees, taxes and trading costs. The backcast is survivorship-biased and is not a track record. Data through October 6, 2026.