NYSE:MAMastercard Stock Price, Forecast & News

Mastercard's stock was trading at $269.76 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, MA shares have increased by 21.8% and is now trading at $328.54.
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30 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Mastercard in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 26 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."
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Mastercard is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, November 3rd 2020.
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Mastercard Inc (NYSE:MA) posted its earnings results on Thursday, July, 30th. The credit services provider reported $1.36 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.15 by $0.21. The credit services provider earned $3.30 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.26 billion. Mastercard had a return on equity of 129.52% and a net margin of 45.12%. The firm's quarterly revenue was down 19.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $1.89 earnings per share.
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Mastercard declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, June 17th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, July 9th will be given a dividend of $0.40 per share on Friday, August 7th. This represents a $1.60 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.49%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, July 8th.
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Mastercard declared that its Board of Directors has authorized a share repurchase program on Tuesday, December 3rd 2019, which authorizes the company to repurchase $8,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to purchase up to 2.7% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are usually a sign that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

30 brokerages have issued 1-year target prices for Mastercard's shares. Their forecasts range from $280.00 to $380.00. On average, they anticipate Mastercard's stock price to reach $334.38 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 1.8% from the stock's current price.
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Media stories about MA stock have trended extremely negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing 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 positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Mastercard earned a daily sentiment score of -4.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the credit services provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the immediate future.
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Mastercard saw a decrease in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totaling 7,090,000 shares, a decrease of 16.8% from the January 15th total of 8,520,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 3,260,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.2 days. Currently, 0.8% of the company's stock are sold short.
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Some companies that are related to Mastercard include Visa (V), Fidelity National Information Servcs (FIS), Fiserv (FISV), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Global Payments (GPN), Paychex (PAYX), FleetCor Technologies (FLT), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY), The Western Union (WU), Genpact (G), WEX (WEX), Euronet Worldwide (EEFT), Corelogic (CLGX) and MAXIMUS (MMS).
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Mastercard investors own include Visa (V), NVIDIA (NVDA), Walt Disney (DIS), Alibaba Group (BABA), Netflix (NFLX), Paypal (PYPL), salesforce.com (CRM), Boeing (BA), Adobe (ADBE) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM).

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

Mastercard's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.36%), Jennison Associates LLC (1.12%), Akre Capital Management LLC (0.59%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (0.39%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.37%) and Swiss National Bank (0.37%). Company insiders that own Mastercard stock include Ajay Banga, Ann Cairns, Craig Vosburg, David R Carlucci, Edward Grunde Mclaughlin, Foundation Mastercard, Gilberto Caldart, J Mehra Sachin, Julius Genachowski, Lance Darrell Gordon Uggla, Michael Fraccaro, Michael Miebach, Richard Haythornthwaite, Richard K Davis, Steven J Freiberg, Timothy H Murphy and Venkata R Madabhushi.
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MA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Jennison Associates LLC, Toronto Dominion Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., Russell Investments Group Ltd., First Trust Advisors LP, Retirement Systems of Alabama, Prudential Financial Inc., and Gateway Investment Advisers LLC. Company insiders that have sold Mastercard company stock in the last year include Ajay Banga, Ann Cairns, Edward Grunde Mclaughlin, Foundation Mastercard, Gilberto Caldart, J Mehra Sachin, Julius Genachowski, Michael Fraccaro, Michael Miebach, Richard Haythornthwaite, Steven J Freiberg, and Venkata R Madabhushi.
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MA stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Fisher Asset Management LLC, MERIAN GLOBAL INVESTORS UK Ltd, Jackson Square Partners LLC, Principal Financial Group Inc., Thornburg Investment Management Inc., Rafferty Asset Management LLC, and Bank of Nova Scotia. Company insiders that have bought Mastercard stock in the last two years include Lance Darrell Gordon Uggla, and Richard K Davis.
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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 $328.54.

Mastercard has a market capitalization of $328.89 billion and generates $16.88 billion in revenue each year. The credit services provider earns $8.12 billion in net income (profit) each year or $7.77 on an earnings per share basis. Mastercard employs 11,400 workers across the globe.

The official website for Mastercard is 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]