Mastercard Stock Forecast, Price & News

22 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Mastercard in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 21 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" Mastercard stock.
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Mastercard saw a decrease in short interest during the month of June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 4,370,000 shares, a decrease of 34.7% from the June 15th total of 6,690,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 3,090,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.4 days. Approximately 0.5% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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Mastercard is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, July 29th 2021.
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Mastercard will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, July 29th at 9:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at 416-621-4642 with passcode "4561068".

Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE:MA) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, April, 29th. The credit services provider reported $1.74 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.55 by $0.19. The credit services provider had revenue of $4.20 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.97 billion. Mastercard had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 100.68% and a net margin of 42.38%. The company's revenue was up 4.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $1.83 EPS.
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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 shares have increased by 45.8% and is now trading at $393.26.
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Mastercard announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, June 21st. Stockholders of record on Friday, July 9th will be given a dividend of $0.44 per share on Monday, August 9th. This represents a $1.76 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.45%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, July 8th.
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Mastercard pays an annual dividend of $1.76 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.45%. Mastercard does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio of Mastercard is 27.37%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, Mastercard will have a dividend payout ratio of 17.04% 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 approved a stock buyback program on Tuesday, December 8th 2020, which authorizes the company to repurchase $6,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to purchase up to 1.8% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are typically an indication that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

22 equities research analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Mastercard's stock. Their forecasts range from $325.00 to $482.00. On average, they anticipate Mastercard's share price to reach $400.13 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 1.7% from the stock's current price.
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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), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Fiserv (FISV), Global Payments (GPN), Paychex (PAYX), FLEETCOR Technologies (FLT), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY), The Western Union (WU), Genpact (G), WEX (WEX), Euronet Worldwide (EEFT), Maximus (MMS) and Alliance Data Systems (ADS).
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Mastercard trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "MA."

Mastercard's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.07%), Vaughan Nelson Investment Management L.P. (0.06%), TCW Group Inc. (0.06%), Bristol John W & Co. Inc. NY (0.05%), Westwood Management Corp IL (0.03%) and Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund (0.02%). Company insiders that own Mastercard 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, Michael Fraccaro, Michael Miebach, Richard Haythornthwaite, Richard K Davis, Sandra A Arkell, Steven J Freiberg and Venkata R Madabhushi.
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MA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Vaughan Nelson Investment Management L.P., TCW Group Inc., Manning & Napier Group LLC, Bristol John W & Co. Inc. NY, BNC Wealth Management LLC, TIAA FSB, Teamwork Financial Advisors LLC, and Bath Savings Trust Co. Company insiders that have sold Mastercard company stock in the last year include Ajay Banga, Ann Cairns, Craig Vosburg, Edward Grunde Mclaughlin, Foundation Mastercard, Gilberto Caldart, J Mehra Sachin, Kevin Stanton, Michael Fraccaro, Richard Haythornthwaite, and Sandra A Arkell.
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MA stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, IFM Investors Pty Ltd, Brookstone Capital Management, Vancity Investment Management Ltd, CHICAGO TRUST Co NA, New Mexico Educational Retirement Board, Gibraltar Capital Management Inc., and Spence Asset Management. 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 $393.26.

Mastercard has a market capitalization of $389.74 billion and generates $15.30 billion in revenue each year. The credit services provider earns $6.41 billion in net income (profit) each year or $6.43 on an earnings per share basis.

Mastercard employs 21,000 workers across the globe.

The following companies are subsidiares of Mastercard: Applied Predictive Technologies, Brighterion, C-sam, DataCash Group, Ekata, Ethoca, Finicity, Global Mastercard Holdings LP, IfOnly, Mastercard A&M Investment Holdings LLC, Mastercard AP Financing Pte. Ltd., Mastercard Asia/Pacific Pte. Ltd., Mastercard Europe SA, Mastercard Financing Solutions LLC, Mastercard Holdings LP, Mastercard International Incorporated, Mastercard Payment Gateway Services Group Limited, Mastercard UK Holdco Limited, Mastercard US Holdings LLC, Mastercard/Europay U.K. Limited, Nets, NuData Security a Mastercard company, Oltio, Orbiscom, Pinpoint, Provus, RiskRecon, SessionM, Transaction Network Services (TNS), Transactis, Transfast, Truaxis, VocaLink, and Vyze.

Mastercard was founded in 1966.

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]