$1,510,000 of MASTERCARD WORLDWIDE lobbying was just disclosed, from Q2 of 2025, in a new Lobbying Disclosure Act filing.
This included lobbying on issues like:
"Issues related to interchange, cost of acceptance, debit interchange price controls, and routing mandates for credit cards (H.R. 3881; Marshall Amendment #2230 to S.1582, GENIUS Act) Issues related to Merchant Category Codes Issues related to digital assets (S. 1582 GENIUS Act) Issues related to artificial intelligence Issues related to tax (One Big Beautiful Bill) Issues related to digital trade payments market access Issues related to payment security and cybersecurity Issues related to digital trade and payment market access Issues related to international tax"
You can find more data on corporate lobbying on Quiver Quantitative.
MA Congressional Stock Trading
Members of Congress have traded $MA stock 11 times in the past 6 months. Of those trades, 4 have been purchases and 7 have been sales.
Here’s a breakdown of recent trading of $MA stock by members of Congress over the last 6 months:
- REPRESENTATIVE JEFFERSON SHREVE has traded it 2 times. They made 0 purchases and 2 sales worth up to $150,000 on 05/12, 04/07.
- REPRESENTATIVE BRUCE WESTERMAN has traded it 2 times. They made 1 purchase worth up to $15,000 on 03/03 and 1 sale worth up to $15,000 on 04/21.
- SENATOR TOMMY TUBERVILLE sold up to $50,000 on 04/15.
- REPRESENTATIVE JOSH GOTTHEIMER has traded it 4 times. They made 2 purchases worth up to $30,000 on 01/31, 01/30 and 2 sales worth up to $30,000 on 04/09, 03/06.
- REPRESENTATIVE ROBERT BRESNAHAN sold up to $15,000 on 04/08.
- SENATOR JOHN BOOZMAN purchased up to $15,000 on 02/05.
To track congressional stock trading, check out Quiver Quantitative's congressional trading dashboard.
MA Insider Trading Activity
MA insiders have traded $MA stock on the open market 66 times in the past 6 months. Of those trades, 0 have been purchases and 66 have been sales.
Here’s a breakdown of recent trading of $MA stock by insiders over the last 6 months:
- CRAIG VOSBURG (Chief Services Officer) has made 0 purchases and 26 sales selling 54,912 shares for an estimated $29,404,714.
- MICHAEL MIEBACH (President & CEO) has made 0 purchases and 11 sales selling 51,439 shares for an estimated $28,629,505.
- EDWARD GRUNDE MCLAUGHLIN (President & CTO, MA Tech) has made 0 purchases and 7 sales selling 7,132 shares for an estimated $3,813,338.
- RAJ SESHADRI (Chief Commercial Pmts Officer) has made 0 purchases and 11 sales selling 5,181 shares for an estimated $2,869,415.
- LINDA PISTECCHIA KIRKPATRICK (President, Americas) has made 0 purchases and 3 sales selling 2,875 shares for an estimated $1,622,332.
- SANDRA A ARKELL (Controller) has made 0 purchases and 6 sales selling 828 shares for an estimated $475,757.
- JULIUS GENACHOWSKI has made 0 purchases and 2 sales selling 622 shares for an estimated $351,959.
To track insider transactions, check out Quiver Quantitative's insider trading dashboard.
MA Hedge Fund Activity
We have seen 1,515 institutional investors add shares of MA stock to their portfolio, and 1,465 decrease their positions in their most recent quarter.
Here are some of the largest recent moves:
- KINGSTONE CAPITAL PARTNERS TEXAS, LLC added 20,324,613 shares (+inf%) to their portfolio in Q2 2025, for an estimated $11,421,213,029
- GAMMA INVESTING LLC removed 8,208,856 shares (-99.8%) from their portfolio in Q2 2025, for an estimated $4,612,884,540
- MASTERCARD FOUNDATION ASSET MANAGEMENT CORP removed 5,213,211 shares (-6.2%) from their portfolio in Q1 2025, for an estimated $2,857,465,213
- WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT GROUP LLP added 3,765,378 shares (+38.6%) to their portfolio in Q1 2025, for an estimated $2,063,878,989
- CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INVESTORS removed 2,930,455 shares (-14.4%) from their portfolio in Q1 2025, for an estimated $1,606,240,994
- BARCLAYS PLC added 2,002,271 shares (+100.1%) to their portfolio in Q1 2025, for an estimated $1,097,484,780
- PROFICIO CAPITAL PARTNERS LLC removed 1,552,227 shares (-99.8%) from their portfolio in Q1 2025, for an estimated $850,806,663
To track hedge funds' stock portfolios, check out Quiver Quantitative's institutional holdings dashboard.
MA Analyst Ratings
Wall Street analysts have issued reports on $MA in the last several months. We have seen 18 firms issue buy ratings on the stock, and 0 firms issue sell ratings.
Here are some recent analyst ratings:
- Truist Securities issued a "Buy" rating on 07/17/2025
- Deutsche Bank issued a "Buy" rating on 07/17/2025
- RBC Capital issued a "Outperform" rating on 07/15/2025
- Seaport Global issued a "Buy" rating on 07/14/2025
- UBS issued a "Buy" rating on 06/03/2025
- Jefferies issued a "Buy" rating on 05/27/2025
- Citigroup issued a "Buy" rating on 05/05/2025
To track analyst ratings and price targets for MA, check out Quiver Quantitative's $MA forecast page.
MA Price Targets
Multiple analysts have issued price targets for $MA recently. We have seen 20 analysts offer price targets for $MA in the last 6 months, with a median target of $642.0.
Here are some recent targets:
- Bryan Keane from Deutsche Bank set a target price of $650.0 on 07/17/2025
- Matthew Coad from Truist Securities set a target price of $612.0 on 07/17/2025
- Daniel Perlin from RBC Capital set a target price of $650.0 on 07/15/2025
- Jeff Cantwell from Seaport Global set a target price of $616.0 on 07/14/2025
- Timothy Chiodo from UBS set a target price of $670.0 on 06/03/2025
- Trevor Williams from Jefferies set a target price of $655.0 on 05/27/2025
- Andrew Schmidt from Citigroup set a target price of $652.0 on 05/05/2025
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