PayPal Stock Forecast, Price & News

40 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for PayPal in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings, 34 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" PayPal stock.
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PayPal is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 5th 2021.
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PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February, 3rd. The credit services provider reported $1.08 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.00 by $0.08. The credit services provider earned $6.12 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $6.09 billion. PayPal had a net margin of 15.48% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 18.31%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 23.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $0.86 earnings per share.
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PayPal's stock was trading at $103.90 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, PYPL shares have increased by 130.1% and is now trading at $239.05.
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PayPal issued an update on its first quarter 2021 After-Hours earnings guidance on Wednesday, February, 3rd. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 0.99-0.99 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.99. The company issued revenue guidance of $5.911-5.911 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $5.62 billion.

40 brokers have issued 12-month target prices for PayPal's stock. Their forecasts range from $125.00 to $375.00. On average, they expect PayPal's stock price to reach $275.53 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 15.3% from the stock's current price.
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1,581 employees have rated PayPal CEO Dan Schulman on Glassdoor.com. Dan Schulman has an approval rating of 92% among PayPal's employees. This puts Dan Schulman in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Some companies that are related to PayPal include Alibaba Group (BABA), Visa (V), Mastercard (MA), Pinduoduo (PDD), Accenture (ACN), Uber Technologies (UBER), Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), MercadoLibre (MELI), NetEase (NTES), Global Payments (GPN), eBay (EBAY), MSCI (MSCI), Zillow Group (ZG), Zillow Group (Z) and CoStar Group (CSGP).
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PayPal trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "PYPL."

PayPal's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (3.80%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (3.38%), Edgewood Management LLC (1.22%), Northern Trust Corp (1.15%), Jennison Associates LLC (1.13%) and Nuveen Asset Management LLC (1.11%). Company insiders that own PayPal stock include Aaron Anderson, Aaron Karczmer, Adele Louise Pentland, Ann Sarnoff, Daniel H Schulman, David M Moffett, John D Rainey, Jonathan Auerbach, Mark Britto and William J Ready.
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PYPL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD, FMR LLC, Tiger Global Management LLC, UBS Asset Management Americas Inc., Egerton Capital UK LLP, DSM Capital Partners LLC, Brown Advisory Inc., and Nuveen Asset Management LLC. Company insiders that have sold PayPal company stock in the last year include Aaron Anderson, Adele Louise Pentland, Ann Sarnoff, Daniel H Schulman, David M Moffett, John D Rainey, Jonathan Auerbach, and Mark Britto.
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PYPL stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Norges Bank, Jennison Associates LLC, Morgan Stanley, Nikko Asset Management Americas Inc., Steadfast Capital Management LP, Fisher Asset Management LLC, Anglepoint Asset Management LTD., and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc..
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Shares of PYPL can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of PYPL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $239.05.

PayPal has a market capitalization of $279.97 billion and generates $17.77 billion in revenue each year. The credit services provider earns $2.46 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.45 on an earnings per share basis.

PayPal employs 23,200 workers across the globe.

PayPal was founded in 1998.

The official website for PayPal is www.paypal.com.

PayPal is headquartered at 2211 NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE CA, 95131.

PayPal's mailing address is 2211 NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE CA, 95131. The credit services provider can be reached via phone at 408-967-1000 or via email at [email protected]