Mastercard Inc ($MA) Possible Buy to $244 Confident Investor Rating: Good
| Company name | Mastercard Inc |
| Stock ticker | MA |
| Live stock price | [stckqut]MA[/stckqut] |
| P/E compared to competitors | Good |
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
| Employee productivity | Good |
| Sales growth | Fair |
| EPS growth | Good |
| P/E growth | Good |
| EBIT growth | Good |
ANALYSIS
| Confident Investor Rating | Good |
| Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $269.6 |
| Target stock price (averages with growth) | $412.23 |
| Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $295.08 |
| Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $278.98 |
The following company description is from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-profile/ma
MasterCard Incorporated, incorporated on May 9, 2001, is a technology company that connects consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses across the world, enabling them to use electronic forms of payment. The Company operates through Payment Solutions segment. The Company allows a user to make payments by creating a range of payment solutions and services using its brands, which include MasterCard, Maestro, and Cirrus.
The Company provides a range of products and solutions that support payment products, which customers can offer to their cardholders. The Company’s services facilitate transactions on its network among cardholders, merchants, financial institutions, and governments. The Company’s products include consumer credit and charge, commercial, debit, prepaid, commercial and digital. The Company’s consumer credit and charge offers a range of programs that enable issuers to provide consumers with cards allowing users to defer payment. The Company’s debit supports a range of payment products and solutions that allow its customers to provide consumers with access to funds in deposit and other accounts. The Company offers prepaid payment programs using any of its brands, which it supports with processing products and services. The Company focuses on segments, which include government programs, such as social security payments, unemployment benefits, and others; commercial programs, such as payroll, health savings accounts, employee benefits and others, and consumer reloadable programs for individuals and users of electronic payments. The Company also provides prepaid program management services, primarily outside of the United States, that manage and enable switching and issuer processing for consumer and commercial prepaid travel cards for business partners, such as financial institutions, retailers, telecommunications companies, travel agents, foreign exchange bureaus, colleges and universities, airlines and governments.
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Mastercard Inc as long as the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable.
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How was this analysis of Mastercard Inc calculated?
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In order to assist you in using the techniques of this book, the values that I used when calculating the Manual pricing above were:
- Stock price at the time of the calculation: $196.29
- Growth: 0.18
- Current EPS (TTM): $4.79
- P/E: 41
- Future EPS Calc: $10.95
- Future Stock Price Calc: $449.29
- Target stock price: $278.97
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