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 paid 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 has initiated a share buyback 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 repurchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are typically an indication that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Mastercard Inc (NYSE:MA) released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May, 2nd. The credit services provider reported $1.50 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.25 by $0.25. The credit services provider earned $3.58 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates 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 quarter in the prior year, the company earned $1.01 EPS. 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.

32 equities research analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Mastercard's shares. Their forecasts range from $140.00 to $230.00. On average, they anticipate Mastercard's stock price to reach $191.0690 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 8.3%. View Analyst Ratings for Mastercard.

32 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Mastercard in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 29 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), eBay (EBAY), Fidelity National Information Servcs (FIS), NetEase (NTES), Ctrip.Com International (CTRP), First Data (FDC), FleetCor Technologies (FLT), Global Payments (GPN), Total System Services (TSS), CoStar Group (CSGP) and Worldpay (WP).

News headlines about MA stock have trended somewhat positive this week, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. The research group ranks the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Mastercard earned a media sentiment score of 0.01 on Accern's scale. They also gave news stories about the credit services provider an impact score of 46.10 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days.

Mastercard's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Baillie Gifford & Co. (0.54%), Bank of Montreal Can (0.30%), Swedbank (0.24%), Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.11%), Jensen Investment Management Inc. (0.09%) and Retirement Systems of Alabama (0.07%). 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., Columbia Partners L L C Investment Management, Calamos Advisors LLC, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Confluence Investment Management LLC, Cullinan Associates Inc. and Mckinley Capital Management LLC Delaware. 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 bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Retirement Systems of Alabama, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Livforsakringsbolaget Skandia Omsesidigt, IFM Investors Pty Ltd, Hexavest Inc., Rathbone Brothers plc, Broadleaf Partners LLC and Amalgamated Bank. 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 $208.36.

Mastercard has a market capitalization of $213.05 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]