Mastercard Stock Forecast, Price & News

30 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Mastercard in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 27 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" Mastercard stock.
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Mastercard saw a increase in short interest in the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totaling 5,060,000 shares, an increase of 31.4% from the December 31st total of 3,850,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 4,190,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.2 days. Approximately 0.6% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
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Mastercard is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 5th 2021.
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Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE:MA) released its earnings results on Thursday, January, 28th. The credit services provider reported $1.64 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.51 by $0.13. The credit services provider had revenue of $4.12 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $4.01 billion. Mastercard had a net margin of 43.13% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 114.80%. The business's revenue for the quarter was down 6.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $2.07 EPS.
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Mastercard's stock was trading at $269.76 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, MA stock has increased by 36.2% and is now trading at $367.32.
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Mastercard announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, February 8th. Stockholders of record on Friday, April 9th will be given a dividend of $0.44 per share on Friday, May 7th. This represents a $1.76 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.48%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, April 8th.
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Mastercard pays an annual dividend of $1.76 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.50%. Mastercard does not yet have a strock track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio of Mastercard is 22.65%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, Mastercard will have a dividend payout ratio of 21.60% next year. This indicates that Mastercard will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Mastercard announced that its board has initiated a share repurchase plan on Tuesday, December 8th 2020, which permits the company to repurchase $6,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to buy up to 1.8% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are generally an indication that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

30 analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Mastercard's shares. Their forecasts range from $280.00 to $420.00. On average, they anticipate Mastercard's share price to reach $356.42 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.0%.
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18 employees have rated Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach on Glassdoor.com. Michael Miebach has an approval rating of 100% among Mastercard's employees. This puts Michael Miebach in the top 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Some companies that are related to Mastercard include Visa (V), Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), Fiserv (FISV), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Global Payments (GPN), Paychex (PAYX), FLEETCOR Technologies (FLT), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY), WEX (WEX), The Western Union (WU), Euronet Worldwide (EEFT), Genpact (G), 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), The Walt Disney (DIS), PayPal (PYPL), Alibaba Group (BABA), Netflix (NFLX), salesforce.com (CRM), Tesla (TSLA), Adobe (ADBE) and The Boeing (BA).

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 FMR LLC (2.95%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (2.94%), Morgan Stanley (1.72%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.41%), Janus Henderson Group PLC (1.13%) and Northern Trust Corp (1.09%). 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, Kevin Stanton, 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 FMR LLC, Jennison Associates LLC, Swedbank, Egerton Capital UK LLP, Gardner Russo & Gardner LLC, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company , and Northern Trust Corp. 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, Kevin Stanton, Michael Fraccaro, Richard Haythornthwaite, and Steven J Freiberg.
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MA stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Morgan Stanley, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Lone Pine Capital LLC, Ownership Capital B.V., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Veritas Investment Partners UK Ltd., Winslow Capital Management LLC, and Korea Investment CORP. 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 WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of MA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $367.32.

Mastercard has a market capitalization of $364.88 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 18,600 workers across the globe.

The official website for Mastercard is www.mastercard.com.

Mastercard is headquartered at 2000 PURCHASE STREET, PURCHASE NY, 10577.

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]