Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE:MA) does about 2.43M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 2485923 shares change hands in Friday trading. The company now has a market cap of 434.15B USD. Its current market price is $465.38, marking a decrease of -0.63% compared to the previous close of $468.31. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $490.00 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $357.85.
Mastercard Incorporated (MA) has a 20-day trading average at $477.27 and the current price is -5.02% off the 52-week high compared with 30.05% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $471.26 and its 200-day simple moving average is $421.90. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 1.52%, which decreases to 1.39% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 41.43 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $514.10, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 9.48% over the period.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on April 11, 2024 when TD Cowen initiated the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of $545. Oppenheimer upgraded the stock to “Outperform” from Perform on January 11, 2024 at a price target of $510.
Mastercard Incorporated (MA) stock is down -2.47% over the week and -2.15% over the past month. Its price is 9.11% year-to-date and 28.64% over the past year.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 9.48 percent from here.
The company has a return on investment of 51.10% and return on equity of 169.27%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 39.33 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 27.78. The beta has a value of 1.07. Price to book ratio is 62.73 and price to sales ratio is 17.28.
