With 3.07 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 2.61 million shares. During the session, the Credit Services company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $547.98 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $531.655. The 52-week range on MA shows that it touched its highest point at $537.70 and its lowest point at $428.86 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $579.10. With its current market cap of 502.64 billion, MA has annualized dividend of $2.74 while the current yield stands at 0.50%. MA paid its most recent dividend on 1736467200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1736467200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.10.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of MA was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 4.37%, but this was up by 3.53% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 6.60% while six-month performance rose 27.48%. The stock gained 24.83% in the past year, while it has gained 4.00% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for MA yields 13.22 with Next year EPS estimates of 16.22. For the next quarter, that number is 3.69. This implies an EPS growth rate of 18.12% for this year and 12.03% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 15.47% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 16.16%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 913.00 million MA shares are outstanding with a float of 817.83 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 5.56 million, which was 61.000003 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Michael Miebach as the firm’s CEO, President & Director, Mr. Sachin Mehra serves as its Chief Financial Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.79876 of MA’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, MA reported revenue of $7369000000.0 and operating income of $4196000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $4428000000.0 and diluted EPS was $3.53.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for MA since 25 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 23 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 1 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 1 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With MA analysts setting a high price target of 654.0 and a low target of 465.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 571.41473. Based on these targets, MA could surge 19.42% to reach the target high and fall by -15.09% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 4.34% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $14.65144 being high and $14.23111 being low. For MA, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $14.48131. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $3.83 and the low estimate is $3.5. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $3.65.
