NYSE:MA - Mastercard 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 decreased by 15.3% and is now trading at $228.61. View which stocks have been mosted impacted by Coronavirus.

28 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Mastercard in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 26 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Mastercard.

Mastercard is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 5th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Mastercard.

Mastercard Inc (NYSE:MA) issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, January, 29th. The credit services provider reported $1.96 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.87 by $0.09. The credit services provider had revenue of $4.41 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $4.40 billion. Mastercard had a net margin of 48.08% and a return on equity of 150.46%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 15.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company earned $1.55 earnings per share. View Mastercard's earnings history.

Mastercard declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, February 4th. Investors of record on Thursday, April 9th will be paid a dividend of $0.40 per share on Friday, May 8th. This represents a $1.60 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.70%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, April 8th. View Mastercard's dividend history.

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

28 equities research analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Mastercard's shares. Their forecasts range from $266.00 to $380.00. On average, they expect Mastercard's share price to reach $323.31 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 41.4% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Mastercard.

Press coverage about MA stock has trended very negative on Wednesday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Mastercard earned a media sentiment score of -3.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news articles about the credit services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View the latest news aboutMastercard.

Mastercard saw a increase in short interest in the month of March. As of March 13th, there was short interest totaling 8,223,100 shares, an increase of 22.0% from the February 27th total of 6,740,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 4,440,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.9 days. Approximately 1.0% of the shares of the company are sold short. 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), Total System Services (TSS), Paychex (PAYX), FleetCor Technologies (FLT), Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), The Western Union (WU), Genpact (G), Euronet Worldwide (EEFT), WEX (WEX) and MAXIMUS (MMS).

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), salesforce.com (CRM), Boeing (BA), Home Depot (HD) 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 Bath Savings Trust Co (0.01%) and Fulcrum Equity Management (0.00%). 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, Timothy H Murphy and Venkata R Madabhushi. View institutional ownership trends for Mastercard.

MA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bath Savings Trust Co. 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 Miebach, Richard Haythornthwaite, and Venkata R Madabhushi. View insider buying and selling activity for Mastercard.

MA stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Fulcrum Equity Management. 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 activity 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 $228.61.

Mastercard has a market capitalization of $229.78 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. 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]