Investors must take note of Mastercard Incorporated’s (MA) performance last week, which was -0.20%.

Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE: MA) on Friday, soared 1.12% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $515.10. Within the past 52 weeks, MA’s price has moved between $404.32 and $534.03.

Annual sales at Financial sector company grew by 11.54% over the past five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 18.19%. With a float of $818.46 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $927.00 million.

Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 33400 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 85.79%, operating margin of 56.6%, and the pretax margin is 53.93%.

Mastercard Incorporated (MA) Insider and Institutional Ownership

Observing investor behavior towards Credit Services industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Mastercard Incorporated is 10.83%, while institutional ownership is 79.11%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 12 ’24, was worth 609,638,000. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 01 ’24, when Company’s Chief Financial Officer sold 4,716 for $500.44, making the entire transaction worth $2,360,075. This insider now owns 27,304 shares in total.

Mastercard Incorporated (MA) Latest Financial update

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 18.19% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 15.00% 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 17.75. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 35.65.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 13.22, a number that is poised to hit 3.71 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 16.32 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Mastercard Incorporated (MA)

Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE: MA) saw its 5-day average volume 2.77 million, a positive change from its year-to-date volume of 2.46 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 24.68%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 8.12.

During the past 100 days, Mastercard Incorporated’s (MA) raw stochastic average was set at 87.48%, which indicates a significant increase from 56.72% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 17.60% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 17.97% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $506.93, while its 200-day Moving Average is $472.22. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $522.98 in the near term. At $525.11, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $528.51. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $517.46, it is likely to go to the next support level at $514.06. The third support level lies at $511.93 if the price breaches the second support level.

Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE: MA) Key Stats

Market capitalization of the company is 483.41 billion based on 917,831K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 25,098 M and income totals 11,195 M. The company made 7,369 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 3,263 M in sales during its previous quarter.