Mastercard Stock Options

MA Stock  USD 516.40  5.00  0.98%   
Mastercard's latest option contracts expiring on January 10th 2025 are carrying combined implied volatility of 0.9. The Mastercard option chain provides detailed quote and price information for the current Mastercard option contracts. It shows all of Mastercard's listed puts, calls, expiration dates, strike prices, and other pricing information.

In The Money vs. Out of Money Option Contracts on Mastercard

Analyzing Mastercard's in-the-money options over time can help investors to take a profitable long position in Mastercard regardless of its overall volatility. This is especially true when Mastercard's options are deep in the money. These options can be identified using deltas that are over 0.75. Deep in-the-money Mastercard's options could be used as guardians of the underlying stock as they move almost dollar for dollar with Mastercard's stock while costing only a fraction of its price.
Mastercard's stock options are financial instruments that give investors the right to buy or sell shares of Mastercard common stock at a specified price for a given time period. Generally speaking, an option to purchase or sell Mastercard stock makes it part of the underlying stock when the option's price is tied to the movement of the underlying stock. If Mastercard's stock price goes up or down, the stock options follow.
At present, Mastercard's Common Stock Shares Outstanding is projected to decrease significantly based on the last few years of reporting. The current year's Liabilities And Stockholders Equity is expected to grow to about 51.3 B, whereas Total Stockholder Equity is forecasted to decline to about 4.6 B.

Mastercard Current Options Market Mood

Mastercard's open interest and total value indicators provide investors with the necessary information to digest the overall options buildup for its expiring contracts. In addition, it helps Mastercard Stock's traders understand whether a recent fall or rise in the market is unreasonable and if the time has come to take contrarian positions. These ratios are calculated based on options trading volumes and current open interest.

Put-to-Call Volume

Unfortunately, most Mastercard's options investors are not very successful. Mastercard's option open interest and volume spread between outstanding puts and calls are regarded by many investors as reliable indicators of the overall future market direction.

Rule 16 of the current Mastercard contract

Base on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that Mastercard will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0563% per day over the life of the 2025-01-10 option contract. With Mastercard trading at USD 516.4, that is roughly USD 0.29. If you think that the market is fully incorporating Mastercard's daily price movement you should consider buying Mastercard options at the current volatility level of 0.9%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
  
Purchasing Mastercard options can give investors a meaningful hedge against losses and, therefore, could be used conservatively to decrease the volatility of your portfolio. However, many options could also amount to little more than gambling, significantly enhancing your overall portfolio risk. One simple example of these aggressive strategies is the sale of "uncovered" Mastercard calls. Remember, the seller must deliver Mastercard stock to the call owner when a call is exercised.

Mastercard Option Chain

When Mastercard's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Mastercard stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying options that are ITM or OTM, the choice depends on your outlook for the underlying security, financial situation, and what you are trying to achieve.
Mastercard's option chain is a display of a range of information that helps investors for ways to trade options on Mastercard. In general, an option chain provides a helpful tool for investors to see all available option contracts, both puts, and calls, for Mastercard. It also shows strike prices and maturity days for a Mastercard against a given expiration period. The table below combines all the option information in the form of a chain but before you use it, remember that it entails significant risk and it is not for everyone.
Open IntStrike PriceCurrent SpreadLast Price
Call
MA250110C002700000270.0262.4 - 267.3262.4In
Call
MA250110C002800000280.0252.8 - 257.8252.8In
Call
MA250110C002900000290.0242.8 - 247.75242.8In
Call
MA250110C003000000300.0232.8 - 237.55232.8In
Call
MA250110C003100000310.0222.6 - 227.55222.6In
Call
MA250110C003150000315.0218.0 - 222.9218.0In
Call
MA250110C003200000320.0213.1 - 217.65213.1In
Call
MA250110C003250000325.0208.05 - 213.05208.05In
Call
MA250110C003300000330.0203.1 - 208.0203.1In
Call
MA250110C003350000335.0198.1 - 202.7198.1In
 Put
MA250110P002700000270.00.0 - 4.34.3Out
 Put
MA250110P002800000280.00.0 - 4.34.3Out
 Put
MA250110P002900000290.00.0 - 4.34.3Out
 Put
MA250110P003000000300.00.0 - 4.34.3Out
 Put
MA250110P003100000310.00.0 - 4.34.3Out
 Put
MA250110P003150000315.00.0 - 4.34.3Out
 Put
MA250110P003200000320.00.0 - 4.34.3Out
 Put
MA250110P003250000325.00.0 - 4.34.3Out
 Put
MA250110P003300000330.00.0 - 4.34.3Out
 Put
MA250110P003350000335.00.0 - 4.34.3Out

Mastercard Selling And Marketing Expenses Over Time

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Mastercard Market Cap Over Time

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Mastercard Total Stockholder Equity

Total Stockholder Equity

4.56 Billion

At present, Mastercard's Total Stockholder Equity is projected to increase significantly based on the last few years of reporting.

Mastercard Corporate Directors

Julius GenachowskiIndependent DirectorProfile
Oki MatsumotoIndependent DirectorProfile
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Richard DavisIndependent DirectorProfile
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Is Transaction & Payment Processing Services space expected to grow? Or is there an opportunity to expand the business' product line in the future? Factors like these will boost the valuation of Mastercard. If investors know Mastercard will grow in the future, the company's valuation will be higher. The financial industry is built on trying to define current growth potential and future valuation accurately. All the valuation information about Mastercard listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.
Quarterly Earnings Growth
0.041
Dividend Share
2.64
Earnings Share
13.25
Revenue Per Share
29.283
Quarterly Revenue Growth
0.128
The market value of Mastercard is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Mastercard that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Mastercard's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Mastercard's true underlying value. Investors use various methods to calculate intrinsic value and buy a stock when its market value falls below its intrinsic value. Because Mastercard's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Mastercard's underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.
Please note, there is a significant difference between Mastercard's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Mastercard is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Mastercard's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.