Mastercard - MA Stock Forecast, Price & News

18 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Mastercard in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 1 hold rating and 16 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" MA shares.
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18 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price targets 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 $396.35 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 14.8% from the stock's current price.
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Mastercard's stock was trading at $359.32 on January 1st, 2022. Since then, MA shares have decreased by 3.9% and is now trading at $345.28.
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Mastercard saw a drop in short interest in the month of October. As of October 15th, there was short interest totaling 4,780,000 shares, a drop of 12.9% from the September 30th total of 5,490,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 2,780,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.7 days. Approximately 0.6% of the company's shares are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 26th 2023.
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Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE:MA) released its earnings results on Thursday, October, 28th. The credit services provider reported $2.37 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $2.19 by $0.18. The credit services provider had revenue of $4.99 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $4.95 billion. Mastercard had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 148.94% and a net margin of 45.22%. The business's revenue was up 29.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the business posted $1.60 EPS.
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Mastercard declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, September 19th. Investors of record on Friday, October 7th will be given a dividend of $0.49 per share on Wednesday, November 9th. This represents a $1.96 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.57%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, October 6th.
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Mastercard (NYSE:MA) pays an annual dividend of $1.96 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.56%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 10 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 19.58%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MA will have a dividend payout ratio of 16.23% 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 of Directors has approved a stock repurchase program on Tuesday, November 30th 2021, which allows the company to buyback $8,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to reacquire up to 2.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are usually an indication 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 many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (8.04%), BlackRock Inc. (6.65%), State Street Corp (3.52%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (2.58%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.34%) and Nuveen Asset Management LLC (0.93%). 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, Linda Pistecchia Kirkpatrick, 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 $345.28.

Mastercard (NYSE:MA) has a market capitalization of $331.97 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 $10.01 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 24,000 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.