Mastercard - MA Stock Forecast, Price & News

23 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Mastercard in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 2 hold ratings and 20 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" MA shares.
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23 brokerages 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 share price to reach $413.41 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 16.4% from the stock's current price.
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Mastercard's stock was trading at $347.73 at the start of the year. Since then, MA stock has increased by 2.1% and is now trading at $355.16.
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Mastercard saw a decrease in short interest in the month of February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totaling 5,190,000 shares, a decrease of 13.2% from the February 13th total of 5,980,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,630,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.0 days. Approximately 0.6% of the company's stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 27th 2023.
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Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE:MA) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, January, 26th. The credit services provider reported $2.65 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $2.56 by $0.09. The credit services provider had revenue of $5.82 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $5.79 billion. Mastercard had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 158.38% and a net margin of 44.65%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 11.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $2.35 EPS.
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Mastercard announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, February 14th. Investors of record on Friday, April 7th will be given a dividend of $0.57 per share on Tuesday, May 9th. This represents a $2.28 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.64%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, April 5th.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Mastercard (NYSE:MA) stock in their portfolio include iShares U.S. Financial Services ETF (IYG), Sterling Capital Focus Equity ETF (LCG), Invesco DWA Financial Momentum ETF (PFI), Nuveen Growth Opportunities ETF (NUGO), iShares U.S. Industrials ETF (IYJ), Motley Fool Global Opportunities ETF (TMFG), ETFMG Prime Mobile Payments ETF (IPAY) and Goldman Sachs Future Consumer Equity ETF (GBUY).

Mastercard (NYSE:MA) pays an annual dividend of $2.28 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.65%. 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 22.31%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MA will have a dividend payout ratio of 16.06% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Mastercard announced that its board has authorized a stock buyback program on Tuesday, November 30th 2021, which authorizes the company to buyback $8,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to purchase up to 2.5% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are often a sign that the company's board believes its stock is 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 many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (2.81%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.70%), Morgan Stanley (1.65%), Norges Bank (0.99%), Jennison Associates LLC (0.81%) and Moneta Group Investment Advisors LLC (0.62%). Insiders that own company stock include Ajay Banga, Ann Cairns, Craig Vosburg, Edward Grunde Mclaughlin, Foundation Mastercard, Gilberto Caldart, Hai Ling, J Mehra Sachin, Julius Genachowski, Kevin Stanton, Linda Pistecchia Kirkpatrick, Michael Fraccaro, Michael Miebach, Raj Seshadri, Richard Haythornthwaite, Sandra A Arkell and Steven J Freiberg.
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Shares of MA stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of MA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $355.16.

Mastercard (NYSE:MA) has a market capitalization of $338.55 billion and generates $22.24 billion in revenue each year. The credit services provider earns $9.93 billion in net income (profit) each year or $10.22 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 29,900 workers across the globe.

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.