Mastercard (MA) Stock Price, News & Analysis

22 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Mastercard in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 hold ratings, 19 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" MA shares.
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22 Wall Street research analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Mastercard's stock. Their MA share price targets range from $424.00 to $510.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $471.85 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 3.1% from the stock's current price.
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Mastercard's stock was trading at $426.51 at the start of the year. Since then, MA shares have increased by 7.4% and is now trading at $457.88.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 25th 2024.
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Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE:MA) issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, January, 31st. The credit services provider reported $3.18 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $3.08 by $0.10. The credit services provider earned $6.55 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $6.46 billion. Mastercard had a net margin of 44.60% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 191.22%. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $2.65 earnings per share.
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Mastercard declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, February 6th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, April 9th will be paid a dividend of $0.66 per share on Thursday, May 9th. This represents a $2.64 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.58%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, April 8th.
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Mastercard (NYSE:MA) pays an annual dividend of $2.64 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.58%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 2 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 22.32%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MA will have a dividend payout ratio of 15.83% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Mastercard (NYSE:MA) stock in their portfolio include iShares U.S. Financial Services ETF (IYG), Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLF), iShares U.S. Industrials ETF (IYJ), Motley Fool Global Opportunities ETF (TMFG), Amplify Mobile Payments ETF (IPAY), Vanguard Financials ETF (VFH), Fidelity MSCI Financials Index ETF (FNCL) and Fidelity Disruptive Finance ETF (FDFF).

Mastercard announced that its board has initiated a stock repurchase plan on Tuesday, December 5th 2023, which permits the company to repurchase $11,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to repurchase up to 2.9% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are typically an indication that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

18 employees have rated Mastercard Chief Executive Officer Michael Miebach on Glassdoor.com. Michael Miebach has an approval rating of 100% among the company's employees. This puts Michael Miebach in the top 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Mastercard investors own include Visa (V), NVIDIA (NVDA), Walt Disney (DIS), PayPal (PYPL), Alibaba Group (BABA), Netflix (NFLX), Salesforce (CRM), Tesla (TSLA), Adobe (ADBE) and Boeing (BA).

Mastercard's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Norges Bank (1.15%), Jennison Associates LLC (0.82%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (0.67%), Franklin Resources Inc. (0.63%), Akre Capital Management LLC (0.54%) and Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (0.50%). Insiders that own company stock include Ajay Banga, Ajay Bhalla, Ann Cairns, Craig Vosburg, Edward Grunde Mclaughlin, Foundation Mastercard, Hai Ling, J Mehra Sachin, Kevin Stanton, Linda Pistecchia Kirkpatrick, Michael Fraccaro, Michael Miebach, Raghuvir Malhotra, Raj Seshadri, Richard K Davis, Sandra A Arkell and Timothy H Murphy.
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