NYSE:MA - Mastercard Stock Price, Price Target & More

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

Mastercard declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, June 25th. Investors of record on Monday, July 9th will be given a dividend of $0.25 per share on Thursday, August 9th. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.48%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, July 6th. View Mastercard's Dividend History.

Mastercard declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock repurchase program on Tuesday, December 5th 2017, which allows the company to repurchase $4,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are usually an indication that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

Mastercard Inc (NYSE:MA) issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May, 2nd. The credit services provider reported $1.50 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.25 by $0.25. The credit services provider earned $3.58 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $3.26 billion. Mastercard had a net margin of 32.42% and a return on equity of 91.56%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 30.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company posted $1.01 earnings per share. View Mastercard's Earnings History.

Mastercard is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, July, 26th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Mastercard.

31 analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for Mastercard's stock. Their forecasts range from $140.00 to $230.00. On average, they expect Mastercard's stock price to reach $193.9286 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 6.2%. View Analyst Ratings for Mastercard.

31 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Mastercard in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 28 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."

Some companies that are related to Mastercard include Alibaba Group (BABA), Visa (V), Accenture (ACN), Paypal (PYPL), Booking (BKNG), Fidelity National Information Servcs (FIS), NetEase (NTES), eBay (EBAY), Ctrip.Com International (CTRP), First Data (FDC), FleetCor Technologies (FLT), Global Payments (GPN), Mercadolibre (MELI), Total System Services (TSS) and Worldpay (WP).

Headlines about MA stock have trended somewhat positive on Sunday, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group identifies negative and positive press coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Mastercard earned a news sentiment score of 0.06 on Accern's scale. They also gave news stories about the credit services provider an impact score of 49.15 out of 100, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future.

Mastercard's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Baillie Gifford & Co. (0.54%), Bank of Montreal Can (0.30%), Swedbank (0.24%), Cornerstone Wealth Management LLC (0.13%), Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.11%) and Jensen Investment Management Inc. (0.09%). Company insiders that own Mastercard stock include Ajay Banga, Ann Cairns, Craig Vosburg, David R Carlucci, Edward Grunde Mclaughlin, Foundation Mastercard, Gary J Flood, Martina Hundmejean, Michael Fraccaro, Richard Haythornthwaite, Robert Reeg, Silvio Barzi 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 Bank of Montreal Can, Jensen Investment Management Inc., Hartford Investment Management Co., Columbia Partners L L C Investment Management, Calamos Advisors LLC, Fred Alger Management Inc., Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH and Confluence Investment Management LLC. Company insiders that have sold Mastercard company stock in the last year include Ajay Banga, Craig Vosburg, David R Carlucci, Edward Grunde Mclaughlin, Foundation Mastercard, Martina Hundmejean, Michael Fraccaro, 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 Cornerstone Wealth Management LLC, Retirement Systems of Alabama, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Livforsakringsbolaget Skandia Omsesidigt, IFM Investors Pty Ltd, Hexavest Inc., Rathbone Brothers plc and Broadleaf Partners LLC. 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of MA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $206.71.

Mastercard has a market capitalization of $215.12 billion and generates $12.50 billion in revenue each year. The credit services provider earns $3.92 billion in net income (profit) each year or $4.58 on an earnings per share basis. Mastercard employs 13,400 workers across the globe.

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]tercard.com.