Mastercard Stock Forecast, Price & News

Mastercard's stock was trading at $269.76 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, MA stock has increased by 26.1% and is now trading at $340.22.
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32 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Mastercard in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings and 27 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 Wednesday, February 3rd 2021.
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Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE:MA) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, October, 28th. The credit services provider reported $1.60 EPS for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.65 by $0.05. The credit services provider had revenue of $3.84 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.94 billion. Mastercard had a return on equity of 114.80% and a net margin of 43.13%.
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Mastercard announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, September 22nd. Shareholders of record on Friday, October 9th will be given a dividend of $0.40 per share on Monday, November 9th. This represents a $1.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.47%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, October 8th.
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Mastercard announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock buyback program on Tuesday, December 3rd 2019, which allows the company to buyback $8,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to reacquire up to 2.7% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are typically a sign that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

32 brokerages have issued 1-year target prices for Mastercard's shares. Their forecasts range from $280.00 to $415.00. On average, they expect Mastercard's stock price to reach $348.18 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 2.3% from the stock's current price.
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Mastercard saw a increase in short interest during the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 5,430,000 shares, an increase of 9.9% from the October 31st total of 4,940,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 3,820,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.4 days. Approximately 0.6% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
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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), The Western Union (WU), WEX (WEX), Genpact (G), Euronet Worldwide (EEFT), 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 many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (3.62%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (1.55%), Morgan Stanley (1.50%), Jennison Associates LLC (0.92%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (0.67%) and UBS Asset Management Americas Inc. (0.67%). 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 Jennison Associates LLC, Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership, State Street Corp, Magellan Asset Management Ltd, AQR Capital Management LLC, The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company, Fisher Asset Management LLC, and CIBC Private Wealth Group 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, Kevin Stanton, Michael Fraccaro, Michael Miebach, Richard Haythornthwaite, Steven J Freiberg, and Venkata R Madabhushi.
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MA stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Egerton Capital UK LLP, Morgan Stanley, CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bradley Foster & Sargent Inc. CT, Jupiter Asset Management Ltd., Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc., and HMI Capital LLC. 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 $340.22.

Mastercard has a market capitalization of $339.17 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]