Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE: MA) on Monday, plunged -0.49% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $508.08. Within the past 52 weeks, MA’s price has moved between $378.48 and $527.90.
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Over the past five-year period, the growth rate of yearbook sales for the company of the Financial sector was 11.54%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 18.21%. With a float of $823.79 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $927.00 million.
Considering the fact that the conglomerate employs 33400 people, you should pay attention to its efficiency factor. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 91.94%, operating margin of 56.6%, and the pretax margin is 53.93%.
Mastercard Incorporated (MA) Insider Activity
Observing investor behavior towards Credit Services industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Mastercard Incorporated is 10.82%, while institutional ownership is 78.87%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 01 ’24, was worth 2,360,075. In this transaction Chief Financial Officer of this company sold 4,716 shares at a rate of $500.44, taking the stock ownership to the 27,304 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 01 ’24, when Company’s Director proposed sale 4,716 for $499.59, making the entire transaction worth $2,356,066.
Mastercard Incorporated (MA) Earnings and Forecasts
As on 9/30/2024, Multinational firm has announced its last quarter scores, in which it reported 3.18 earnings per share (EPS) for the period topping the consensus outlook (set at 3.08) by 0.1. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 3.69 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 18.21% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 15.85% during the next five years compared to 16.16% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE: MA) Trading Performance Indicators
Mastercard Incorporated (MA) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 1.29 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 17.44. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 35.03.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 13.22, a number that is poised to hit 3.72 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 16.38 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Mastercard Incorporated (MA)
Compared to the last year’s volume of 2.45 million, its volume of 3.33 million showed improvement in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 19.49%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 8.15.
During the past 100 days, Mastercard Incorporated’s (MA) raw stochastic average was set at 77.46%, which indicates a significant increase from 24.00% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 17.06% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 17.51% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $496.23, while its 200-day Moving Average is $467.24. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $509.38 in the near term. At $513.17, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $516.35. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $502.41, it is likely to go to the next support level at $499.23. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $495.44.
Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE: MA) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 474.95 billion based on 923,835K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 25,098 M and income totals 11,195 M. The company made 6,961 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 3,258 M in sales during its previous quarter.
