Mastercard Board of Directors Announces Quarterly Dividend and $6 Billion Share Repurchase Program
December 08 2020 - 4:15PM
Business Wire
Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE: MA) today announced that its
Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of 44
cents per share, a 10 percent increase over the previous dividend
of 40 cents per share. The cash dividend will be paid on February
9, 2021 to holders of record of its Class A common stock and Class
B common stock as of January 8, 2021.
The Board of Directors also approved a new share repurchase
program, authorizing the company to repurchase up to $6 billion of
its Class A common stock.
The new share repurchase program will become effective at the
completion of the company’s previously announced $8 billion
program. The company has approximately $3.8 billion remaining under
the current program authorization.
About Mastercard (NYSE:MA)
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments
industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital
economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions
safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks,
partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help
individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses
realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ,
drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our
company. With connections across more than 210 countries and
territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks
priceless possibilities for all.
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include, but are not limited to, statements relating to the manner
and amount of purchases by Mastercard pursuant to its share
repurchase program dependent upon price and market conditions, as
well as Mastercard’s future prospects, developments and business
strategies. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date
they are made, and the company undertakes no duty to update any
forward-looking statements made in this press release or to conform
such statements to actual results or changes in the company’s
expectations.
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