MA (MA) Stock

About MA

MA is led by CEO Michael Miebach, employs 35,300 people, headquartered in Purchase, US, publicly traded since 2006.

MA stock trades at $583.99 with a market capitalization of $512.18B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 32.86, price-to-book of 94.07, price-to-sales of 14.96. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $464.52 and $601.62, and currently trades 2.9% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 0.58%.

On profitability, MA generates a return on equity (ROE) of 232.46% — well above the market average, a sign of a high-quality business, return on capital employed of 63.79%, an operating margin of 59.40%, a net profit margin of 46.34%.

In its most recent fiscal year, MA reported annual revenue of $32.8B, net profit of $15.0B, revenue has compounded at 16.5% a year over the last five years, profit at 18.5% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 4.39 — a leveraged balance sheet worth monitoring, a current ratio of 1.03, total assets of $54.2B, $10.6B in cash and equivalents.

MA has an average daily trading volume of 3,538,221 shares, a beta of 0.73 (less volatile than the overall market).