MasterCard a Buy, Hold, or Sell?

Is MasterCard a Buy, Hold, or Sell?

MasterCard has delivered fortunes to its investors, rising more than 1,400% since its IPO in 2006. But is MasterCard still a buy today, even at the price of about nearly $700 per share?

In this video, Motley Fool analysts Joe Tenebruso and Eric Bleeker discuss a massive global opportunity that lies ahead for MasterCard. And they offer up two other great businesses that investors may wish to consider as additional ways to profit from the cash-to-plastic megatrend.

MasterCard : the official card of the second great depression

1. What evidence do you see of the economic downturn in your own communities?

2. Do we need the FEDERAL RESERVE, or does that PRIVATE org do more harm than good?

3. What if BANKS were not for profit (i.e.- regulated by the government and charged only nominal interest rates... if profit were left over the profit would be turned over to the taxpayer as a dividend)

MasterCard Names Ajay Banga CEO, Succeeding Selander

April 12 (Bloomberg) -- Ajay Banga, newly named chief executive officer of MasterCard Inc., says in a teleconference that the second-biggest electronic-payments network will increase focus in e-commerce and mobile applications. Banga, who joined MasterCard as president and chief operating officer from Citigroup Inc. last August, will succeed Robert Selander at the top position on July 1. Bloomberg's Sheila Dharmarajan reports. (Source: Bloomberg)