NASDAQ:PYPL - Paypal Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Paypal trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "PYPL."

Paypal declared that its board has initiated a share repurchase program on Sunday, June 4th 2017, which allows the company to buyback $5,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to purchase up to 9.3% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are often a sign that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

Paypal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, January, 30th. The credit services provider reported $0.69 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.67 by $0.02. The credit services provider earned $4.23 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $4.23 billion. Paypal had a return on equity of 14.67% and a net margin of 13.31%. The company's revenue was up 13.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.55 EPS. View Paypal's Earnings History.

Paypal is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 24th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Paypal.

Paypal will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, April 24th at 5:00 PM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Paypal issued an update on its FY19 earnings guidance on Wednesday, January, 30th. The company provided EPS guidance of $2.84-2.91 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $2.89. The company issued revenue guidance of $17.8-18.1 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $18.03 billion.Paypal also updated its FY 2019 guidance to $2.84-2.91 EPS.

33 brokers have issued 12-month price objectives for Paypal's stock. Their forecasts range from $43.00 to $125.00. On average, they expect Paypal's share price to reach $101.1819 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 5.8%. View Analyst Price Targets for Paypal.

33 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Paypal in the last year. There are currently 10 hold ratings and 23 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Paypal.

Media coverage about PYPL stock has trended positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Paypal earned a coverage optimism score of 2.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the credit services provider a news buzz of 5.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days.

Paypal saw a decline in short interest in March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totalling 14,052,592 shares, a decline of 25.3% from the February 28th total of 18,823,659 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 6,384,715 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.2 days. Approximately 1.3% of the company's stock are sold short. View Paypal's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Paypal include Alibaba Group (BABA), Visa (V), Mastercard (MA), Accenture (ACN), Booking (BKNG), Fidelity National Information Servcs (FIS), NetEase (NTES), Worldpay (WP), eBay (EBAY), Pinduoduo (PDD), Ctrip.Com International (CTRP), First Data (FDC), Mercadolibre (MELI), Global Payments (GPN) and FleetCor Technologies (FLT).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Paypal investors own include Alibaba Group (BABA), NVIDIA (NVDA), Netflix (NFLX), Micron Technology (MU), Visa (V), salesforce.com (CRM), Adobe (ADBE), Mastercard (MA), Walt Disney (DIS) and Square (SQ).

Paypal's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Strs Ohio (0.12%), Retirement Systems of Alabama (0.08%), First Manhattan Co. (0.08%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.05%), Calamos Advisors LLC (0.05%) and Atalanta Sosnoff Capital LLC (0.05%). Company insiders that own Paypal stock include Aaron Anderson, Aaron Karczmer, Adele Louise Pentland, Daniel H Schulman, David M Moffett, Frank D Yeary, Gail J Mcgovern, Gary J Marino, John D Rainey, John J Donahoe, Jonathan Auerbach, Rodney C Adkins and William J Ready. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Paypal.

PYPL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Calamos Advisors LLC, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, Highland Capital Management LLC, Pennsylvania Trust Co, Portland Hill Asset Management Ltd, Selz Capital LLC, Abner Herrman & Brock LLC and RPG Investment Advisory LLC. Company insiders that have sold Paypal company stock in the last year include Aaron Anderson, Aaron Karczmer, Adele Louise Pentland, Daniel H Schulman, Gary J Marino, John D Rainey, John J Donahoe, Jonathan Auerbach and William J Ready. View Insider Buying and Selling for Paypal.

PYPL stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Pacer Advisors Inc., Cohen Klingenstein LLC, Barometer Capital Management Inc., McCollum Christoferson Group LLC, Northstar Investment Advisors LLC, Garnet Equity Capital Holdings Inc., TIAA FSB and Kessler Investment Group LLC. Company insiders that have bought Paypal stock in the last two years include Frank D Yeary and Rodney C Adkins. View Insider Buying and Selling for Paypal.

Shares of PYPL can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of PYPL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $107.36.

Paypal has a market capitalization of $125.85 billion and generates $15.45 billion in revenue each year. The credit services provider earns $2.06 billion in net income (profit) each year or $1.79 on an earnings per share basis. Paypal employs 21,800 workers across the globe.

The official website for Paypal is http://www.paypal.com.

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]