MQ Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Marqeta - Class A | NASDAQ:MQ)

Headquartered in Oakland, California, and founded in 2010, Marqeta provides its clients with a card-issuing platform that offers the infrastructure and tools necessary to offer digital, physical, and tokenized payment options without the need for a traditional bank. The company's open APIs are designed to allow third parties like DoorDash, Klarna, and Block to rapidly develop and deploy innovative card-based products and payment services without the need to develop the underlying technology. The company generates revenue primarily through processing and ATM fees for cards issued on its platform.

Marqeta - Class A trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol MQ.

As of March 18, 2026, MQ stock price declined to $3.96 with 749,876 million shares trading.

MQ has a beta of 1.02, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. MQ has a correlation of 0.16 to the broad based SPY ETF.

MQ has a market cap of $1.69 billion. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

Last quarter Marqeta - Class A reported $172 million in Revenue and $.00 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $5 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.02.

In the last 3 years, MQ traded as high as $7.36 and as low as $3.37.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that MQ belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, IWM, VB, VBK, VXF.

MQ has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -8.3% while the SPY ETF gained +18.8%. MQ has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -19.5% and -2.2%, respectively, while the SPY returned -0.4% and -2.0%, respectively.

MQ support price is $3.90 and resistance is $4.12 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that MQ shares will trade within this expected range on the day.