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Comments for MA

Added By	Comments	Type	Date Added
nancywerle	own it	Love	September 14, 2009
Arnie Shal	Safe, secure, growth potential	Love	September 04, 2009
S0UTS	Visa is more of a mover.	Hate	August 04, 2009
barrons3	Investors have been narrowing MasterCard's valuation discount to its pricier rival Visa, the card-payment market leader. A P/E of 16 could send MasterCard stock above 200.	Love	July 25, 2009
appaloosa	seems to have everything in order	Love	July 21, 2009
plhofmei	No debt exposure. Earns money every time someone swipes. People are doing that more these days than paying in cash. Be it debit or credit.	Love	July 20, 2009
barrons3	As far as I’m concerned charge-offs are trending the wrong way, says Guy Adami. I’d rather own Mastercard (MA) on a valuation basis.	Love	July 08, 2009
barrons3	I’d look at Wells Fargo (WFC) around $22 and Mastercard (MA) at $152. - Guy Adami	Love	May 20, 2009
barrons3	Most have fortresslike balance sheets, too, and are renowned for conservative management. MasterCard (MA), at No. 1 on our list this year, is sitting on $2.3 billion, or roughly $17 a share, in cash -- it has almost no debt -- and reported a 9% rise in first-quarter operating income. Not many companies, including most blue chips, can boast that.	Love	May 09, 2009
golfrattt	lots of volatility and volume	Love	May 01, 2009
ptanamis	people use for spending	Hate	April 28, 2009
Stockpickr Staff	<a href="http://www.stockpickr.com/members/view/answers/66204/" target="_blank">For MacDougall's take, click here.</a>	Love	April 17, 2009
barrons3	Q: Let's talk about a few stock picks. A: One of these is MasterCard (MA). Even though consumer spending has declined, the percentage of transactions completed with plastic continues to rise. For every one of these transactions, whether it involves MasterCard, Visa or American Express, they collect a toll to complete the transaction. While American Express takes on credit risk, MasterCard and Visa have no credit exposure. So even if banks restrict credit-card issuance, consumers will still use debit cards, where MasterCard and Visa are large players. We find MasterCard more attractive than Visa because of its valuation, which is about 16 times this year's profit estimate. The growth of credit- and debit-card transactions versus cash is a secular shift.	Love	March 28, 2009
NeilHarvey	Made a blistering start on DJI.	Love	March 20, 2009
barrons3	It is also the triage component: Morgan Stanley (MS), Goldman Sachs (GS), Visa (V) and MasterCard (MA) are your chosen winners in finance.	Love	February 26, 2009
barrons3	I'd forget all the scattered brained bank stocks. In the space only look at Visa [V], Mastercard [MA], Goldman Sachs [GS] and Morgan Stanley (MS). Those are the four horsemen of the financials.	Love	February 25, 2009
barrons3	Outperform - Price 161.8 on Feb. 17 by Cowen and Company We are upgrading MA from Underperform....The combination of positive [credit-card] revenue-growth rates with continued declines in discretionary advertising should continue to help MA expand Ebit [earnings before interest and taxes] margins and generate 20%-plus EPS growth rates this year, while sustaining sector-high, 30%-plus ROIC [return on invested capital] metrics. While in this upgrade, we aren't calling a bottom to the ongoing economic recession, we point to the resilience [of] MA's model....MA trades at 14 times projected [calendar] '09 EPS. Market cap: $21.1 billion.	Love	February 21, 2009
C Dazzi Traders	it's the big 2	Love	February 19, 2009
barrons3	Najarian said he liked Visa (V) and Mastercard (MA) because they don't face any of the problem of the big banks and are showing continued growth.	Love	February 10, 2009
sarah z	From a recent Mad Money show:"I like MasterCard, but this one has also spiked and when things spike, we have to let them come in before we pull the trigger."	Love	February 10, 2009
barrons3	Now, we also see that Visa (V) and MasterCard (MA) -- two hedge fund faves -- are able to be generals for retail, even though those who know these companies understand these are secular plays on the switch from paper to plastic.	Love	February 05, 2009
RAPTOR I	Recession mentality is causing consumers to cut back on purchases, which means credit cards are not earning merchant fees. Soaring unemployment means that more and more cardholders will be unable to pay their balances, forcing the credit card companies to hire collection agencies or write off the loss. Earnings per share: -1.45. Price/book ratio: 11. Avoiding a long position on MA: priceless.	Love	February 05, 2009
barrons3	If you’re looking for a trade, I think the banks are too murky, adds Pete Najarian. But I like what I see in Goldman [GS] and Morgan Stanley [MS]. And you can also look at Visa [V] and Mastercard [MA].	Love	February 04, 2009
RhinoStocks	With this stock trading in an upward trending channel right now, Fitzpatrick suggested waiting for a pullback in this volatile market.	Love	January 13, 2009
barrons3	But you find your favorite tech that hasn't moved much -- we like Qualcomm (QCOM) and Cisco (CSCO) for Action Alerts PLUS, plus Research In Motion's (RIMM) right because of new products -- and you buy a mortgage play -- Wells Fargo (WFC)? -- and you can buy a down-and-dirty retailer that you have faith in, but hold your nose. I can get with Best Buy (BBY), and I like the yield support of JC Penney (JCP). You can buy deep-in-the-money calls for MasterCard (MA) -- remember, it did report a fantastic number.	Love	January 08, 2009
barrons3	If you’re looking for a trade Mastercard [MA] could take a hit, adds Guy Adami.	Love	December 03, 2008
aileen	GOOD RUNS	Love	November 26, 2008
barrons3	He'd recommended MasterCard(MA) on "Stop Trading" earlier this week, and the stock had quickly shot up 10 points. "I didn't want to see that," he said. "When you have a stock that jumps like that, you're going to attract shorts. That's not what I wanted."	Love	November 13, 2008
barrons3	Ratigan said investors should watch names such as U.S. Steel(X), MasterCard(MA), Alpha Natural Resources(ANR), Freeport McMoRan (FCX) and Cliffs Natural Resources(CLF).	Love	November 12, 2008
barrons3	Or take the MasterCard (MA), which I believe is perhaps the single most manipulated-up stock I have seen. The bulls can buy this stock up to 20 times next year's earnings, now that we know its estimates are safe, which puts it at $180. The question isn't will it get to $180, it is whether it will get there today.	Love	November 06, 2008