Mastercard to acquire Ekata for advancing digital identity efforts

  • Advancing its identity verification efforts, Mastercard (MA) acquired Seattle-headquartered Ekata for $850M; Digital identity is a foundational part of Mastercard 's multi-layered approach to security.
  • Ekata works with a wide range of global merchants, financial institutions, travel companies, marketplaces and digital currency platforms.
  • Ekata's identity verification data, machine learning technology and global experience combined with Mastercard 's fraud prevention and digital identity programs will help businesses confidently know who their customers are and, in turn, help those customers safely interact online.
  • Transaction is expected to close within the upcoming six months.
  • Mastercard does not expect this acquisition to be dilutive to its business for greater than two years.

    Over the current book year the company from Purchase could achieve a revenue around 18.14 billion USD (consensus estimates). This is hugely more than 2020's revenue of 15.3 billion USD.

    Historical revenues and results Mastercard plus estimates 2020

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    The analysts expect for 2021 a net profit of 7.98 billion USD. The majority of the analysts expects for this year a profit per share of 8.08 USD. Based on this the price/earnings-ratio is 47.45.

    Analysts expect a dividend of 1.61 USD per share. Mastercard 's dividend yield thus equals 0.42 percent. The average dividend yield of the financial companies equals an attractive 2.64 percent.

    Mastercard 's market capitalization is based on the number of outstanding shares around 381.85 billion USD. The Mastercard stock was the past 12 months quite unstable. Since last April the stock is even 51 percent higher. This year the stock price moved between 253 and 390 dollar.

    Historical stock prices Mastercard from 2007 till 2021

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    At 16.02 the stock trades 0.75 percent higher at 383.36 USD.

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