Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE:MA) does about 2.93M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 2655236 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 521.72B USD. Its current market price is $574.55, marking an increase of 1.95% compared to the previous close of $563.58. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $588.45 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $428.86. The script in recent trading has seen the stock touch a high of $660 and a low of $630.
25 analysts observing the Mastercard Incorporated (MA) stock have set the 12-month price targets for the company’s shares at between $630 and $660. The consensus objective for the share price is $624.85, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 8.05% over the period. The median price target is 10.23% away from the current levels at $640.
FactSet Research has provided data showing that 25 brokerages have issued ratings for the stock. 0 analysts have rated it as a sell, while 1 advise that it is a overweight. 23 analysts have rated it as a buy and 1 have advised that investors hold their positions. The consensus recommendation rating is Buy and Wall Street’s advice is for investors to Strong Buy the stock.
DZ Bank upgraded the stock to “Buy” from Hold on February 04, 2025 at a price target of $620. Monness Crespi & Hardt upgraded its price target at $640.
The current price level is 1.20%, 5.82%, and 9.72% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the MA price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. Mastercard Incorporated (MA) stock is down -2.02% over the week and 7.70% over the past month. Its price is 9.11% year-to-date and 25.85% over the past year.
Its 12-month price target is $640. To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 8.05 percent from here. Of course, the average price target is just what the average analysts believe a stock will be worth in the next 52 weeks, and is only one metric. There are analysts with lower targets than the average, including one bearish Wall Street research firm advocating investors to wait for the price to pull back to $630, given the recent momentum. And then, on the bullish side of things, one analyst is expecting the stock to peak at $660.
Outstanding shares total 903.00M with insiders holding 0.51% of the shares and institutional holders owning 90.37% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 51.60% and return on equity of 188.92%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 40.30 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 30.86. The beta has a value of 1.04. Price to book ratio is 78.38 and price to sales ratio is 17.96.
