Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE:MA)’s traded shares stood at 2.28 million during the latest session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.05. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $554.09, to imply a decrease of -5.97% or -$35.19 in intraday trading. The MA share’s 52-week high remains $594.71, putting it -7.33% down since that peak but still an impressive 22.6% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $428.86. The company has a valuation of $503.14B, with an average of 2.16 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 2.71 million shares over the past 3 months.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Mastercard Incorporated (MA), translating to a mean rating of 1.71. Of 25 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give MA a Sell rating. 1 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 1 advise Hold as 23 recommend it as a Buy.
Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE:MA) trade information
After registering a -5.97% downside in the latest session, Mastercard Incorporated (MA) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -6.10%, and -3.35% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is 5.23%. Short interest in Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE:MA) saw shorts transact 6.12 million shares and set a 2.59 days time to cover.
The extremes give us $630 and $660 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, MA has been trading -19.11% off suggested target high and -13.7% from its likely low.
An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings grew an estimated 11.82% for the past 5-year period. While 2025 is set for a 9.21% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 14.14% annually.
MA Dividends
Mastercard Incorporated has its next earnings report out on 2025-Apr-30. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. Mastercard Incorporated has a forward dividend ratio of 2.84, with the share yield ticking at 0.51% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 0.52%.
Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE:MA)’s Major holders
Mastercard Incorporated insiders hold 0.51% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 90.35% of the shares at 90.82% float percentage. In total, 90.35% institutions holds shares in the company, led by VANGUARD GROUP INC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 76.36 million shares (or 8.2191% of shares), all amounting to roughly $33.68 billion.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is BLACKROCK INC. with 69.82 million shares, or about 7.5154% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $30.8 billion.
We also have VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Mastercard Incorporated (MA) shares. Going by data provided on Mar 31, 2025 , VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund holds roughly 25.73 shares. This is just over 2.85% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $14.31 billion. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 22.63, or 2.51% of the shares, all valued at about 12.59 billion.
