Compare Stocks: MA, AFRM, GOOG, and PYPL

Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
AFRM Affirm	$77.76 +0.3%	$77.45	$42.10 ▼ $100.00	$25.95B	3.71	3.07 million shs	29.04 million shs
GOOG Alphabet	$342.88 +1.5%	$347.79	$206.96 ▼ $404.47	$4.13T	1.23	17.26 million shs	17.82 million shs
MA Mastercard	$595.51 +0.6%	$549.15	$464.52 ▼ $601.62	$518.36B	0.72	3.00 million shs	1.89 million shs
PYPL PayPal	$53.66 -12.7%	$53.88	$38.46 ▼ $79.21	$52.59B	1.3	9.83 million shs	36.28 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
AFRM Affirm	+0.35%	+0.95%	+10.84%	+5.58%	+0.22%
GOOG Alphabet	+1.53%	+0.33%	+2.12%	-8.91%	+64.68%
MA Mastercard	+0.70%	+2.63%	+5.65%	+20.44%	+0.67%
PYPL PayPal	-12.71%	-12.82%	-8.04%	+19.91%	-22.96%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
AFRM Affirm	$77.76 +0.3%	$77.45	$42.10 ▼ $100.00	$25.95B	3.71	3.07 million shs	29.04 million shs
GOOG Alphabet	$342.88 +1.5%	$347.79	$206.96 ▼ $404.47	$4.13T	1.23	17.26 million shs	17.82 million shs
MA Mastercard	$595.51 +0.6%	$549.15	$464.52 ▼ $601.62	$518.36B	0.72	3.00 million shs	1.89 million shs
PYPL PayPal	$53.66 -12.7%	$53.88	$38.46 ▼ $79.21	$52.59B	1.3	9.83 million shs	36.28 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
AFRM Affirm	+0.35%	+0.95%	+10.84%	+5.58%	+0.22%
GOOG Alphabet	+1.53%	+0.33%	+2.12%	-8.91%	+64.68%
MA Mastercard	+0.70%	+2.63%	+5.65%	+20.44%	+0.67%
PYPL PayPal	-12.71%	-12.82%	-8.04%	+19.91%	-22.96%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
AFRM Affirm	2.77	Moderate Buy	$98.08	26.13% Upside
GOOG Alphabet	3.05	Buy	$415.55	21.19% Upside
MA Mastercard	3.10	Buy	$664.71	11.62% Upside
PYPL PayPal	2.11	Hold	$56.14	4.62% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest MA, AFRM, GOOG, and PYPL Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
8/28/2026	AFRM Affirm	TD Cowen Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy	$117.00 ➝ $124.00
8/28/2026	AFRM Affirm	Susquehanna Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Positive	$105.00 ➝ $110.00
8/28/2026	AFRM Affirm	Oppenheimer Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Outperform	$100.00 ➝ $104.00
8/28/2026	PYPL PayPal	Loop Capital Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Hold	$62.00 ➝ $50.00
8/28/2026	PYPL PayPal	Mizuho Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Set Price Target		$51.00
8/28/2026	AFRM Affirm	Piper Sandler Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight	$103.00 ➝ $115.00
8/28/2026	AFRM Affirm	Needham & Company LLC Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy	$90.00 ➝ $100.00
8/28/2026	AFRM Affirm	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral	$82.00 ➝ $90.00
8/28/2026	AFRM Affirm	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Equal Weight	$80.00 ➝ $82.00
8/28/2026	AFRM Affirm	Bank of America Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy	$93.00 ➝ $104.00
8/28/2026	AFRM Affirm	Wolfe Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Outperform

(Data available from 8/29/2023 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
AFRM Affirm	$4.26B	6.11	$0.24 per share	326.28	$9.44 per share	8.24
GOOG Alphabet	$402.84B	10.41	$12.87 per share	26.65	$50.90 per share	6.74
MA Mastercard	$32.79B	15.91	$21.00 per share	28.36	$6.40 per share	93.05
PYPL PayPal	$33.17B	1.38	$5.71 per share	9.40	$23.17 per share	2.32

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
AFRM Affirm	$52.19M	$1.10	14.09	29.23	3.14	45.29%	54.47%	15.41%	11/5/2026 (Estimated)
GOOG Alphabet	$132.17B	$19.91	17.22	23.26	0.95	54.77%	51.32%	35.42%	10/28/2026 (Estimated)
MA Mastercard	$14.97B	$18.18	32.76	26.00	1.78	46.34%	239.99%	30.88%	10/29/2026 (Estimated)
PYPL PayPal	$5.23B	$5.29	10.14	9.25	1.50	14.36%	24.39%	6.06%	10/27/2026 (Estimated)

Latest MA, AFRM, GOOG, and PYPL Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
8/27/2026	Q4 2026	AFRM Affirm	$0.3473	$4.62	+$4.2727	$4.62	$1.11 billion	$1.07 billion
7/30/2026	Q2 2026	MA Mastercard	$4.77	$5.04	+$0.27	$4.97	$9.08 billion	$9.28 billion
7/28/2026	Q2 2026	PYPL PayPal	$1.28	$1.38	+$0.10	$1.25	$8.47 billion	$8.68 billion
7/23/2026	Q2 2026	GOOG Alphabet	$2.87	$9.11	+$6.24	$9.11	$116.53 billion	$119.80 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	5-Year Annualized Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
AFRM Affirm	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
GOOG Alphabet	$0.88	0.26%	N/A	4.42%	1 Years
MA Mastercard	$3.48	0.58%	+13.70%	19.14%	13 Years
PYPL PayPal	$0.56	1.04%	N/A	10.59%	N/A

Latest MA, AFRM, GOOG, and PYPL Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
7/27/2026	PYPL PayPal	quarterly	$0.14	0.96%	9/4/2026	9/4/2026	9/25/2026
7/22/2026	GOOG Alphabet	quarterly	$0.22	0.28%	9/4/2026	9/7/2026	9/14/2026
6/16/2026	MA Mastercard	quarterly	$0.87	0.67%	7/9/2026	7/9/2026	8/7/2026

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
AFRM Affirm	2.39	11.32	11.32
GOOG Alphabet	0.16	2.72	2.64
MA Mastercard	3.96	1.06	1.06
PYPL PayPal	0.55	1.29	1.29

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
AFRM Affirm	69.29%
GOOG Alphabet	27.26%
MA Mastercard	97.28%
PYPL PayPal	68.32%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
AFRM Affirm	11.01%
GOOG Alphabet	12.99%
MA Mastercard	0.09%
PYPL PayPal	0.63%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
AFRM Affirm	2,206	334.90 million	298.03 million	Optionable
GOOG Alphabet	190,200	12.23 billion	10.64 billion	Optionable
MA Mastercard	39,800	876.01 million	875.22 million	Optionable
PYPL PayPal	23,800	855.46 million	850.07 million	Optionable

MA, AFRM, GOOG, and PYPL Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

Corient Private Wealth LP Purchases Shares of 9,664,262 PayPal Holdings, Inc. $PYPL

50 minutes ago | marketbeat.com

Here’s What Jim Cramer Thinks Is In Store For PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) & Klarna

4 hours ago | insidermonkey.com

PayPal (PYPL) Hit After Stripe, Advent Drop $53B Planned Takeover

4 hours ago | insidermonkey.com

Why PayPal (PYPL) shares are plunging today

4 hours ago | msn.com

Stock Market Today, Aug. 28: PayPal Falls 13% After Stripe and Advent Abandon $50B Takeover

August 28 at 6:00 PM | fool.com

PayPal Stock Drops as Buyout Plans Fall Through. Where Barchart Options Data Says PYPL Could Be Headed Next.

August 28 at 3:50 PM | barchart.com

Market Movers: PayPal (PYPL) Tumbles on Failed Buyout, Marvell (MRVL) Disappoints, Gap (GPS) Shines

August 28 at 3:10 PM | blockonomi.com

PYPL stock crash: Mizuho highlights three key risks for PayPal after Stripe, Advent reportedly abandon takeover bid

August 28 at 2:28 PM | msn.com

Why Is PYPL Stock Down Today? PayPal Shares Plunge After $53 Billion Buyout Bid Collapses

August 28 at 2:28 PM | ibtimes.sgI

Marvell, Nvidia, PayPal, Workday, Iren, Elastic, Pasqal, Affirm, and More Stocks That Explain Today’s Market

August 28 at 2:28 PM | finance.yahoo.com

PayPal (PYPL) Bid Withdrawal Ends $50 Billion Takeover Proposal

August 28 at 2:28 PM | finance.yahoo.com

Why PayPal Stock Just Crashed

August 28 at 2:28 PM | fool.com

Stocks open on mixed footing ahead of Warsh's Jackson Hole speech: AlphaCheck

August 28 at 2:28 PM | finance.yahoo.com

David Einhorn's New PayPal Bet Faces Its First Test After Stripe Deal Collapses

August 28 at 2:11 PM | benzinga.com

Why PayPal Stock Just Crashed

August 28 at 1:51 PM | fool.com

Why PayPal Stock Is Down Today and What Mizuho Thinks Comes Next

August 28 at 1:11 PM | tipranks.com

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August 28 at 1:01 PM | marketbeat.com

Gold Falls Over 2%; Elastic Shares Jump After Upbeat Q1 Results

August 28 at 12:30 PM | benzinga.com

PayPal shares crash 13% on reports Advent-Stripe consortium walks away from bid

August 28 at 11:51 AM | economictimes.indiatimes.com

PayPal: The Deal Is Off, So Let's Now Focus On What Matters

August 28 at 11:30 AM | seekingalpha.com

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MA, AFRM, GOOG, and PYPL Company Descriptions

Affirm NASDAQ:AFRM

$77.76 +0.27 (+0.35%)

As of 08/28/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Affirm Holdings, Inc. operates a platform for digital and mobile-first commerce in the United States, Canada, and internationally. The company's platform includes point-of-sale payment solution for consumers, merchant commerce solutions, and a consumer-focused app. Its commerce platform, agreements with originating banks, and capital markets partners enables consumers to pay for a purchase over time with terms ranging up to 60 months. The company has active merchants covering small businesses, large enterprises, direct-to-consumer brands, brick-and-mortar stores, and companies with an omni-channel presence. Its merchants represent a range of industries, including sporting goods and outdoors, furniture and homewares, travel and ticketing, apparel, accessories, consumer electronics, and jewelry. Affirm Holdings, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Alphabet NASDAQ:GOOG

$342.88 +5.17 (+1.53%)

As of 08/28/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Alphabet Inc. offers various products and platforms in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, Canada, and Latin America. It operates through Google Services, Google Cloud, and Other Bets segments. The Google Services segment provides products and services, including ads, Android, Chrome, devices, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Maps, Google Photos, Google Play, Search, and YouTube. It is also involved in the sale of apps and in-app purchases and digital content in the Google Play and YouTube; and devices, as well as in the provision of YouTube consumer subscription services. The Google Cloud segment offers infrastructure, cybersecurity, databases, analytics, AI, and other services; Google Workspace that include cloud-based communication and collaboration tools for enterprises, such as Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, and Meet; and other services for enterprise customers. The Other Bets segment sells healthcare-related and internet services. The company was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Mastercard NYSE:MA

$595.51 +3.78 (+0.64%)

As of 08/28/2026 03:58 PM Eastern

Mastercard Incorporated, a technology company, provides transaction processing and other payment-related products and services in the United States and internationally. The company offers integrated products and value-added services for account holders, merchants, financial institutions, digital partners, businesses, governments, and other organizations, such as programs that enable issuers to provide consumers with credits to defer payments; payment products and solutions that allow its customers to access funds in deposit and other accounts; prepaid programs services; and commercial credit, debit, and prepaid payment products and solutions. It also provides solutions that enable businesses or governments to make payments to businesses, including Virtual Card Number, which is generated dynamically from a physical card and leverages the credit limit of the funding account; a platform to optimize supplier payment enablement campaigns for financial institutions; and treasury intelligence platform that offers corporations with recommendations to enhance working capital performance and accelerate spend on cards. In addition, the company offers Mastercard Send, which partners with digital messaging and payment platforms to enable consumers to send money directly within applications to other consumers; and Mastercard Cross-Border Services enables a range of payment flows through a distribution network with a single point of access to send and receive money globally through various channels, including bank accounts, mobile wallets, cards, and cash payouts. Further, it provides cyber and intelligence solutions; insights and analytics, consulting, marketing, loyalty, processing, and payment gateway solutions for e-commerce merchants; and open banking and digital identity services. The company offers payment solutions and services under the MasterCard, Maestro, and Cirrus name. Mastercard Incorporated was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Purchase, New York.

PayPal NASDAQ:PYPL

$53.66 -7.81 (-12.71%)

As of 08/28/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

PayPal Holdings, Inc. operates a technology platform that enables digital payments on behalf of merchants and consumers worldwide. It operates a two-sided network at scale that connects merchants and consumers that enables its customers to connect, transact, and send and receive payments through online and in person, as well as transfer and withdraw funds using various funding sources, such as bank accounts, PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products comprising its installment products, credit and debit cards, and cryptocurrencies, as well as other stored value products, including gift cards and eligible rewards. The company provides payment solutions under the PayPal, PayPal Credit, Braintree, Venmo, Xoom, Zettle, Hyperwallet, Honey, and Paidy names. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

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