Mastercard (MA)

Company Description
MasterCard Incorporated (MasterCard) is a global payments company that provides a economic link among financial institutions, businesses, merchants, cardholders and governments worldwide, enabling them to use electronic forms of payment instead of cash and checks. The Company provides a variety of services in support of the credit, debit, prepaid and related payment programs of approximately 22,000 financial institutions and other entities that are its customers. The Company offers payment solutions, which enable its customers to develop and implement credit, debit, prepaid and related payment programs for their customers, which include cardholders, businesses and government entities. MasterCard manages a family of payment card brands, including MasterCard MasterCard, Maestro and Cirrus, which the Company license to its customers. MasterCard generates revenue by charging fees to its customers for providing transaction processing and other payment-related services.


Faizan's take
Mastercard (MA) last traded at $339.10 a share. The stock looks technically sound. Just today it broke an ascending triangle formation on good volume, indicating a bull run in the near mid term.
Suggested price target $384.00 (13.2% gain).


NOTE: Suggested price targets are very flexible and may change as the price action unfolds. Targets are only suggested to give readers a rough estimate of what to expect from the stock and they should not be used by investors as absolute sell points.