NYSE:MA - Mastercard Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Mastercard declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, December 3rd. Shareholders of record on Thursday, January 9th will be given a dividend of $0.40 per share on Friday, February 7th. This represents a $1.60 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.49%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, January 8th. This is a positive change from Mastercard's previous quarterly dividend of $0.33. View Mastercard's Dividend History.

Mastercard announced that its Board of Directors has approved a stock buyback program on Tuesday, December 3rd 2019, which allows the company to repurchase $8,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to purchase up to 2.7% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are typically an indication that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Mastercard Inc (NYSE:MA) posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, October, 29th. The credit services provider reported $2.15 EPS for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $2.01 by $0.14. The credit services provider had revenue of $4.47 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $4.41 billion. Mastercard had a net margin of 42.50% and a return on equity of 146.92%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 14.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $1.78 earnings per share. View Mastercard's Earnings History.

Mastercard is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, January 29th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Mastercard.

Mastercard will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, January 29th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

25 analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Mastercard's shares. Their forecasts range from $265.00 to $365.00. On average, they expect Mastercard's stock price to reach $319.67 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.2%. View Analyst Price Targets for Mastercard.

25 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Mastercard in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 23 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Mastercard.

Media coverage about MA stock has trended positive recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group identifies positive and negative media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Mastercard earned a coverage optimism score of 3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the credit services provider a news buzz of 5.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Mastercard.

Mastercard saw a decline in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 7,550,000 shares, a decline of 6.6% from the December 15th total of 8,080,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 3,100,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.4 days. Approximately 0.9% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Mastercard's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Mastercard include Visa (V), Fidelity National Information Servcs (FIS), Fiserv (FISV), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Global Payments (GPN), Worldpay (WP), Paychex (PAYX), FleetCor Technologies (FLT), Total System Services (TSS), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), The Western Union (WU), Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY), WEX (WEX), Euronet Worldwide (EEFT) and Genpact (G).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Mastercard investors own include Visa (V), NVIDIA (NVDA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Walt Disney (DIS), Netflix (NFLX), Paypal (PYPL), Boeing (BA), Home Depot (HD), salesforce.com (CRM) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM).

Mastercard's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Johanson Financial Advisors Inc. (0.59%), Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.08%), Douglass Winthrop Advisors LLC (0.04%), Calamos Advisors LLC (0.04%), Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.03%) and Hexavest Inc. (0.02%). Company insiders that own Mastercard stock include Ajay Banga, Ann Cairns, Craig Vosburg, David R Carlucci, Edward Grunde Mclaughlin, Foundation Mastercard, Gilberto Caldart, Lance Darrell Gordon Uggla, Martina Hundmejean, Michael Fraccaro, Michael Miebach, Richard Haythornthwaite, Richard K Davis and Timothy H Murphy. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Mastercard.

MA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Hexavest Inc., Tocqueville Asset Management L.P., Selz Capital LLC, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Manning & Napier Group LLC, Baxter Bros Inc., Nisa Investment Advisors LLC and Tuttle Tactical Management. Company insiders that have sold Mastercard company stock in the last year include Ajay Banga, Ann Cairns, Craig Vosburg, David R Carlucci, Edward Grunde Mclaughlin, Foundation Mastercard, Gilberto Caldart, Michael Fraccaro, Michael Miebach, Richard Haythornthwaite and Timothy H Murphy. View Insider Buying and Selling for Mastercard.

MA stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Johanson Financial Advisors Inc., Artemis Investment Management LLP, DNB Asset Management AS, Peterson Wealth Management, Diversified Trust Co, AE Wealth Management LLC, Advisors Capital Management LLC and Paragon Advisors LLC. Company insiders that have bought Mastercard stock in the last two years include Lance Darrell Gordon Uggla and Richard K Davis. View Insider Buying and Selling for Mastercard.

Shares of MA can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of MA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $323.66.

Mastercard has a market capitalization of $326.53 billion and generates $14.95 billion in revenue each year. The credit services provider earns $5.86 billion in net income (profit) each year or $6.49 on an earnings per share basis. Mastercard employs 14,800 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Mastercard.

The official website for Mastercard is http://www.mastercard.com/.

Mastercard's mailing address is 2000 PURCHASE STREET, PURCHASE NY, 10577. The credit services provider can be reached via phone at 914-249-2000 or via email at [email protected]