Spotting A Winner: Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE: MA) Advances 7.40 And It Still Have Room To Run

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Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE:MA) currently has a daily average trading volume of 2.94M but it saw 4696547 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 469.92B USD, the company’s current market price of $515.43 came rising about 7.40 while comparing to the previous closing price of $479.92. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $582.23 and as low as $428.86. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $470.17 while lowest mark touched by it was $518.51.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Mastercard Incorporated (MA) gives us an average price of $529.95, while its current price level is -11.47% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 20.19% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $547.40 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $507.02. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 6.90% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 3.08%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 43.94 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

DZ Bank upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Buy” from “Hold” on February 04, 2025 while assigning a price target of $620. Monness Crespi & Hardt issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock is $640.

Over the week, MA’s stock price is moving -5.84% down while it is -1.97% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -2.12% down and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 7.64%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Jan-29, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 3.56 while estimate for next year EPS is 15.9. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $7.78B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $31.55B and seeing the company making $35.46B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $7.12B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Mastercard Incorporated’s total number of outstanding shares is 907.00M with 0.51% of that held by the insiders while 90.14% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 52.36% and return on equity (ROE) at 191.95%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 37.11 while having a 27.60 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.07. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 72.64 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 16.69. Its return on asset (ROA) is 28.44% on average.