Mastercard Stock Options Expiring on 3rd of January 2025

MA Stock  USD 532.94  0.56  0.11%   
Mastercard's latest option contracts expiring on 2025-01-03 are carrying combined implied volatility of 0.02 with a put-to-call open interest ratio of 0.0 over 21 outstanding agreements suggesting investors are buying way more calls than puts on contracts expiring on 2025-01-03. The total put volume is at 24.0, with calls trading at the volume of 24.0. This yields a 0.96 put-to-call volume ratio.
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 44.6 B, whereas Total Stockholder Equity is forecasted to decline to about 4.6 B.

Mastercard In The Money Call Balance

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 Mastercard's options that are 'In the Money' or 'Out of the Money', the choice depends on your outlook for the underlying security, financial situation, and what you are trying to achieve.
While 'out-of-the-money' option contracts written on Mastercard are typically viewed as the more aggressive, there are potential upsides to purchasing these types of options contracts. For one, the cost to buy an 'Out of the Money' option is lower than the cost to buy an 'In the Money' option. This cost-benefit is due to the fact that at the time of the purchase, 'Out of the Money' contracts have no intrinsic value. So, while the potential for a 100% loss is more significant, the cost and risk to enter the trade are lower.

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 0.001338% per day over the life of the 2025-01-03 option contract. With Mastercard trading at USD 532.94, that is roughly USD 0.007128. 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 0.0214%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
  

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 IntExpirationCurrent SpreadLast Price
Call
MA Option Call 03-01-2025 34002025-01-030.0 - 0.0194.6In
Call
MA Option Call 03-01-2025 50002025-01-030.0 - 0.034.36In
Call
MA Option Call 03-01-2025 51502025-01-030.0 - 0.018.0In
Call
MA Option Call 03-01-2025 52002025-01-030.0 - 0.018.5In
Call
MA Option Call 03-01-2025 52502025-01-030.0 - 0.09.44In
Call
MA Option Call 03-01-2025 53002025-01-030.0 - 0.012.25In
Call
MA Option Call 03-01-2025 53502025-01-030.0 - 0.07.3Out
Call
MA Option Call 03-01-2025 54002025-01-030.0 - 0.07.65Out
Call
MA Option Call 03-01-2025 54502025-01-030.0 - 0.05.9Out
Call
MA Option Call 03-01-2025 55002025-01-030.0 - 0.04.53Out
Call
MA Option Call 03-01-2025 55502025-01-030.0 - 0.03.16Out
Call
MA Option Call 03-01-2025 56002025-01-030.0 - 0.02.3Out
Call
MA Option Call 03-01-2025 56502025-01-030.0 - 0.01.43Out
 Put
MA Option Put 03-01-2025 47002025-01-030.0 - 0.02.12Out
 Put
MA Option Put 03-01-2025 47502025-01-030.0 - 0.00.56Out
 Put
MA Option Put 03-01-2025 50002025-01-030.0 - 0.01.07Out
 Put
MA Option Put 03-01-2025 50502025-01-030.0 - 0.02.49Out
 Put
MA Option Put 03-01-2025 51002025-01-030.0 - 0.02.41Out
 Put
MA Option Put 03-01-2025 51502025-01-030.0 - 0.03.14Out
 Put
MA Option Put 03-01-2025 52002025-01-030.0 - 0.011.26Out
 Put
MA Option Put 03-01-2025 55002025-01-030.0 - 0.018.5In

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

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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
13.22
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.