Mastercard - MA Stock Forecast, Price & News

15 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Mastercard in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 1 hold rating and 13 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" MA shares.
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15 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for Mastercard's stock. Their MA share price forecasts range from $298.00 to $472.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $414.09 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 15.3% from the stock's current price.
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Mastercard's stock was trading at $359.32 at the beginning of the year. Since then, MA shares have decreased by 0.0% and is now trading at $359.25.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October 27th 2022.
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Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE:MA) released its earnings results on Thursday, July, 28th. The credit services provider reported $2.56 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $2.36 by $0.20. The credit services provider had revenue of $5.50 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $5.26 billion. Mastercard had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 143.35% and a net margin of 46.49%. Mastercard's revenue was up 21.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $1.95 EPS.
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Mastercard declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, June 20th. Stockholders of record on Friday, July 8th will be paid a dividend of $0.49 per share on Tuesday, August 9th. This represents a $1.96 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.55%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, July 7th.
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Mastercard (NYSE:MA) pays an annual dividend of $1.96 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.54%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 11 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 19.86%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MA will have a dividend payout ratio of 15.58% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Mastercard declared that its board has authorized a stock buyback plan on Tuesday, November 30th 2021, which authorizes the company to buyback $8,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to purchase up to 2.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are typically a sign that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

18 employees have rated Mastercard Chief Executive Officer Michael Miebach on Glassdoor.com. Michael Miebach has an approval rating of 100% among the company's employees. This puts Michael Miebach in the top 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Mastercard investors own include Visa (V), NVIDIA (NVDA), Walt Disney (DIS), PayPal (PYPL), Alibaba Group (BABA), Netflix (NFLX), Salesforce (CRM), Tesla (TSLA), Adobe (ADBE) and Boeing (BA).

Mastercard trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "MA."

Mastercard's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (3.49%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (2.78%), FMR LLC (2.50%), Northern Trust Corp (1.05%), Jennison Associates LLC (0.80%) and Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (0.71%). Insiders that own company stock include Ajay Banga, Ann Cairns, Craig Vosburg, Edward Grunde Mclaughlin, Foundation Mastercard, Gilberto Caldart, J Mehra Sachin, Julius Genachowski, Kevin Stanton, Lance Darrell Gordon Uggla, Michael Fraccaro, Michael Miebach, Raj Seshadri, Richard Haythornthwaite, Sandra A Arkell, Steven J Freiberg and Venkata R Madabhushi.
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One share of MA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $359.25.

Mastercard (NYSE:MA) has a market capitalization of $347.17 billion and generates $18.88 billion in revenue each year. The credit services provider earns $8.69 billion in net income (profit) each year or $9.87 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 24,000 workers across the globe.

Mastercard was founded in 1966.

Mastercard's mailing address is 2000 PURCHASE STREET, PURCHASE NY, 10577. The official website for the company is www.mastercard.com. The credit services provider can be reached via phone at (914) 249-2000, via email at investor.relations@mastercard.com, or via fax at 914-249-4262.