Mastercard (MA) Stock Forecast, Price & News

19 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Mastercard in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 17 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" MA shares.
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19 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for Mastercard's stock. Their MA share price forecasts range from $345.00 to $488.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $436.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 10.4% from the stock's current price.
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Mastercard's stock was trading at $347.73 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, MA stock has increased by 13.6% and is now trading at $394.98.
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Mastercard saw a increase in short interest in July. As of July 15th, there was short interest totaling 4,850,000 shares, an increase of 27.6% from the June 30th total of 3,800,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,780,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.7 days. Currently, 0.6% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October 26th 2023.
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Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE:MA) posted its earnings results on Thursday, July, 27th. The credit services provider reported $2.89 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.84 by $0.05. The credit services provider earned $6.30 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $6.18 billion. Mastercard had a net margin of 43.37% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 178.10%. The business's revenue was up 14.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $2.56 earnings per share.
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Mastercard declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, June 26th. Shareholders of record on Friday, July 7th will be given a dividend of $0.57 per share on Wednesday, August 9th. This represents a $2.28 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.58%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, July 6th.
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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), ETFMG Prime Mobile Payments ETF (IPAY), Vanguard Financials ETF (VFH), Fidelity MSCI Financials Index ETF (FNCL) and Sterling Capital Focus Equity ETF (LCG).

Mastercard (NYSE:MA) pays an annual dividend of $2.28 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.58%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 11 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 21.37%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MA will have a dividend payout ratio of 15.97% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Mastercard declared that its board has approved a stock buyback program on Tuesday, November 30th 2021, which authorizes the company to buyback $8,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to repurchase up to 2.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are typically an indication that the company's board 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 trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "MA."

Mastercard's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd Zurich (87.08%), Capital International Investors (2.06%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.77%), Capital Research Global Investors (1.54%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.19%) and Northern Trust Corp (0.94%). Insiders that own company stock include Ajay Banga, Ann Cairns, Craig Vosburg, Edward Grunde Mclaughlin, Foundation Mastercard, Gilberto Caldart, Hai Ling, J Mehra Sachin, Kevin Stanton, Linda Pistecchia Kirkpatrick, Michael Fraccaro, Michael Miebach, Raghuvir Malhotra, Raj Seshadri, Richard Haythornthwaite, Sandra A Arkell and Timothy H Murphy.
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Shares of MA stock 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 $394.98.

Mastercard (NYSE:MA) has a market capitalization of $372.15 billion and generates $22.24 billion in revenue each year. The credit services provider earns $9.93 billion in net income (profit) each year or $10.67 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 29,900 workers across the globe.

Mastercard's mailing address is 2000 PURCHASE STREET, PURCHASE NY, 10577. The official website for the company is www.mastercard.com. The credit services provider can be reached via phone at (914) 249-2000, via email at investor.relations@mastercard.com, or via fax at 914-249-4262.