The recommendations of Wall Street analysts are often relied on by investors when deciding whether to buy, sell, or hold a stock. Media reports about these brokerage-firm-employed (or sell-side) analysts changing their ratings often affect a stock's price. Do they really matter, though?Let's take a look at what these Wall Street heavyweights have to say about MasterCard (MA) before we discuss the reliability of brokerage recommendations and how to use them to your advantage.MasterCard currently has an avera ...

Jill Moser, SVP Offers, Loyalty at Mastercard, told Karen Webster that we’re entering a new age of hyper-personalization, where context is critical.Loyalty programs, of course, have been around for decades. As Webster noted, the granddaddy might be Neiman Marcus’s InCircle program, which made the firm the first luxury retailer to debut a loyalty program, way back in 1984. Airlines’ rewards programs are pretty much ubiquitous.But by and large, those programs are not, and have not been, personalized — in fact ...

Investors interested in stocks from the Financial Transaction Services sector have probably already heard of PagSeguro Digital Ltd. (PAGS) and MasterCard (MA) . But which of these two stocks presents investors with the better value opportunity right now? Let's take a closer look.There are plenty of strategies for discovering value stocks, but we have found that pairing a strong Zacks Rank with an impressive grade in the Value category of our Style Scores system produces the best returns. The Zacks Rank favo ...

BARCELONA, SPAIN - MARCH 01: A view of the MasterCard company logo on their stand during the Mobile World Congress on March 1, 2017 in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Joan Cros Garcia/Corbis via Getty Images)Payments giant Mastercard says it has built its own proprietary generative artificial intelligence model to help thousands of banks in its network detect and root out fraudulent transactions.The company told CNBC exclusively that its new advanced AI model, Decision Intelligence Pro, will allow banks to bett ...

Mastercard Incorporated (MA) reported fourth-quarter 2023 adjusted earnings of $3.18 per share, which outpaced the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 3.3%. The bottom line climbed 20% year over year.Net revenues of the leading technology company in the global payments industry amounted to $6.5 billion, which improved 13% year over year in the quarter under review. The top line beat the consensus mark by 1.4%.The quarterly results benefited on the back of resilient consumer spending and solid cross-border volumes. ...

Mastercard, Inc. (NYSE:MA) Q4 2023 Results Conference Call January 31, 2024 9:00 AM ET Company Participants Devin Corr - Head of Investor Relations Michael Miebach - Chief Executive Officer Sachin Mehra - Chief Financial Officer Conference Call Participants Harshita Rawat - Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC Craig Maurer - FT Partners Sanjay Sakhrani - KBW Tien-Tsin Huang - JPMorgan Chase & Co. Daniel Perlin - RBC Capital Markets Darrin Peller - Wolfe Research Cris Kennedy - William Blair Paul Golding - Macqua ...

jbk_photography When it comes to compounding earnings, dividends, and ultimately, shareholder wealth, it doesn't get much better than Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE:MA). The stock posted earnings this morning, pushing shares to a new all-time high. This compounder has produced positive annual earnings growth during 16 out of its 17 years as a public company. What's even more amazing is that Mastercard produced double-digit growth in each of those 16 positive growth years. The only year that Mastercard failed ...

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For Mastercard, new payment flows and digital innovations outpaced spending growth on cards — though consumers remain resilient.And as management noted in a press release and on an earnings call discussing the fourth quarter of 2023, demand has been strong for security and authentication solutions that protect those transactions.Supplemental materials reveal that fourth-quarter gross dollar volumes were up 10% to $2.3 trillion.In the United States, debit and prepaid card spending was up 2.7% to $345 billion ...

For the quarter ended December 2023, MasterCard (MA) reported revenue of $6.55 billion, up 12.6% over the same period last year. EPS came in at $3.18, compared to $2.65 in the year-ago quarter.The reported revenue represents a surprise of +1.39% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $6.46 billion. With the consensus EPS estimate being $3.08, the EPS surprise was +3.25%.While investors closely watch year-over-year changes in headline numbers -- revenue and earnings -- and how they compare to Wall Street expec ...