NYSE:MAMastercard 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 (WHO). Since then, MA stock has increased by 21.6% and is now trading at $328.00.
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30 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Mastercard in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 26 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."
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Mastercard is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, November 3rd 2020.
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Mastercard Inc (NYSE:MA) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, July, 30th. The credit services provider reported $1.36 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.15 by $0.21. The credit services provider had revenue of $3.30 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.26 billion. Mastercard had a net margin of 45.12% and a return on equity of 129.52%. The business's revenue for the quarter was down 19.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $1.89 EPS.
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Mastercard declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, June 17th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, July 9th will be paid a dividend of $0.40 per share on Friday, August 7th. This represents a $1.60 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.49%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, July 8th.
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Mastercard declared that its Board of Directors has approved a stock repurchase program on Tuesday, December 3rd 2019, which permits the company to repurchase $8,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to reacquire up to 2.7% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are usually a sign that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

30 brokerages have issued twelve-month price targets for Mastercard's shares. Their forecasts range from $275.00 to $380.00. On average, they anticipate Mastercard's share price to reach $333.34 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 1.6% from the stock's current price.
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Headlines about MA stock have been trending somewhat negative on Thursday, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Mastercard earned a news impact score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the credit services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future.
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Mastercard saw a decrease in short interest during the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totaling 4,370,000 shares, a decrease of 9.5% from the July 15th total of 4,830,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 4,230,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.0 days. Approximately 0.5% of the company's stock are short sold.
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Some companies that are related to Mastercard include Visa (V), Fidelity National Information Servcs (FIS), Fiserv (FISV), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Global Payments (GPN), Paychex (PAYX), FleetCor Technologies (FLT), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY), The Western Union (WU), Genpact (G), WEX (WEX), Corelogic (CLGX), Euronet Worldwide (EEFT) 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), Walt Disney (DIS), Alibaba Group (BABA), 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 many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.37%), Swiss National Bank (0.37%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (0.27%), Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Fiduciary Advisors LLP MA (0.18%), Russell Investments Group Ltd. (0.16%) and New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.13%). 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, 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 Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., Russell Investments Group Ltd., First Trust Advisors LP, Retirement Systems of Alabama, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Banco Santander S.A., and Zweig DiMenna Associates LLC. 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, Michael Miebach, Richard Haythornthwaite, Steven J Freiberg, and Venkata R Madabhushi.
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MA stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including MERIAN GLOBAL INVESTORS UK Ltd, Principal Financial Group Inc., Menora Mivtachim Holdings LTD., LA Financiere DE L Echiquier, Pacer Advisors Inc., Raymond James & Associates, Polaris Greystone Financial Group LLC, and Swiss National Bank. 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 Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of MA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $328.00.

Mastercard has a market capitalization of $329.23 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.

The official website for Mastercard is 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]