Mastercard (MA) Stock Forecast, Price & News

21 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Mastercard in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 2 hold ratings and 18 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" MA shares.
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21 analysts have issued 1-year target prices for Mastercard's stock. Their MA share price forecasts range from $298.00 to $476.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $417.27 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 6.4% from the stock's current price.
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Mastercard's stock was trading at $347.73 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, MA shares have increased by 12.7% and is now trading at $392.02.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, July 27th 2023.
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Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE:MA) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, April, 27th. The credit services provider reported $2.80 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $2.71 by $0.09. The credit services provider earned $5.75 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $5.64 billion. Mastercard had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 169.12% and a net margin of 42.33%. Mastercard's revenue for the quarter was up 11.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm posted $2.76 EPS.
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Mastercard declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, February 14th. Shareholders of record on Friday, April 7th will be given a dividend of $0.57 per share on Tuesday, May 9th. This represents a $2.28 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.58%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, April 5th.
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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), Sterling Capital Focus Equity ETF (LCG), ETFMG Prime Mobile Payments ETF (IPAY), iShares U.S. Industrials ETF (IYJ), Nuveen Growth Opportunities ETF (NUGO), Motley Fool Global Opportunities ETF (TMFG) and PGIM Jennison Focused Growth ETF (PJFG).

Mastercard (NYSE:MA) pays an annual dividend of $2.28 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.60%. 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 22.78%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MA will have a dividend payout ratio of 15.93% 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 of Directors has authorized a stock buyback program on Tuesday, November 30th 2021, which authorizes the company to repurchase $8,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to purchase up to 2.5% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are often a sign that the company's board of directors 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 many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (3.67%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (2.77%), FMR LLC (2.46%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.73%), Wellington Management Group LLP (1.41%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.26%). 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, Steven J Freiberg 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 $392.02.

Mastercard (NYSE:MA) has a market capitalization of $371.58 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 $10.01 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.