NYSE:MA - Mastercard Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Mastercard announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, December 3rd. Shareholders of record on Thursday, January 9th will be given a dividend of $0.40 per share on Friday, February 7th. This represents a $1.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.49%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, January 8th. This is an increase from Mastercard's previous quarterly dividend of $0.33. View Mastercard's Dividend History.

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

Mastercard Inc (NYSE:MA) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, October, 29th. The credit services provider reported $2.15 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $2.01 by $0.14. The credit services provider had revenue of $4.47 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $4.41 billion. Mastercard had a return on equity of 146.92% and a net margin of 42.50%. Mastercard's revenue was up 14.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $1.78 earnings per share. View Mastercard's Earnings History.

Mastercard is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, January 29th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Mastercard.

Mastercard will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, January 29th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

25 equities research analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Mastercard's shares. Their forecasts range from $265.00 to $365.00. On average, they expect Mastercard's share price to reach $319.67 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.2%. View Analyst Price Targets for Mastercard.

25 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Mastercard in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 23 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Mastercard.

Press coverage about MA stock has trended positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group identifies positive and negative press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Mastercard earned a coverage optimism score of 3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the credit services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Mastercard.

Mastercard saw a decrease in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 7,550,000 shares, a decrease of 6.6% from the December 15th total of 8,080,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 3,100,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.4 days. Currently, 0.9% of the company's shares are short sold. View Mastercard's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Mastercard include Visa (V), Fidelity National Information Servcs (FIS), Fiserv (FISV), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Global Payments (GPN), Worldpay (WP), Paychex (PAYX), FleetCor Technologies (FLT), Total System Services (TSS), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), The Western Union (WU), Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY), WEX (WEX), Euronet Worldwide (EEFT) and Genpact (G).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Mastercard investors own include Visa (V), NVIDIA (NVDA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Walt Disney (DIS), Netflix (NFLX), Paypal (PYPL), Boeing (BA), Home Depot (HD), salesforce.com (CRM) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM).

Mastercard's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Johanson Financial Advisors Inc. (0.59%), Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.08%), Douglass Winthrop Advisors LLC (0.04%), Calamos Advisors LLC (0.04%), Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.03%) and Hexavest Inc. (0.02%). Company insiders that own Mastercard stock include Ajay Banga, Ann Cairns, Craig Vosburg, David R Carlucci, Edward Grunde Mclaughlin, Foundation Mastercard, Gilberto Caldart, Lance Darrell Gordon Uggla, Martina Hundmejean, Michael Fraccaro, Michael Miebach, Richard Haythornthwaite, Richard K Davis 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 Hexavest Inc., Tocqueville Asset Management L.P., Selz Capital LLC, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Manning & Napier Group LLC, Baxter Bros Inc., Nisa Investment Advisors LLC and Tuttle Tactical Management. Company insiders that have sold Mastercard company stock in the last year include Ajay Banga, Ann Cairns, Craig Vosburg, David R Carlucci, Edward Grunde Mclaughlin, Foundation Mastercard, Gilberto Caldart, Michael Fraccaro, Michael Miebach, Richard Haythornthwaite and Timothy H Murphy. View Insider Buying and Selling for Mastercard.

MA stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Johanson Financial Advisors Inc., Artemis Investment Management LLP, DNB Asset Management AS, Peterson Wealth Management, Diversified Trust Co, AE Wealth Management LLC, Advisors Capital Management LLC and Paragon Advisors LLC. Company insiders that have bought Mastercard stock in the last two years include Lance Darrell Gordon Uggla and Richard K Davis. 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of MA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $323.66.

Mastercard has a market capitalization of $326.53 billion and generates $14.95 billion in revenue each year. The credit services provider earns $5.86 billion in net income (profit) each year or $6.49 on an earnings per share basis. Mastercard employs 14,800 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Mastercard.

The official website for Mastercard is http://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]