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

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

Paypal announced that its board has approved a stock buyback plan on Sunday, June 4th 2017, which permits the company to buyback $5,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to purchase up to 9.3% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are typically an indication that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Paypal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) posted its earnings results on Thursday, October, 18th. The credit services provider reported $0.58 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.54 by $0.04. The credit services provider earned $3.68 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $3.66 billion. Paypal had a net margin of 13.98% and a return on equity of 13.60%. Paypal's revenue was up 13.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $0.46 earnings per share. View Paypal's Earnings History.

Paypal is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, January 30th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Paypal.

Paypal updated its fourth quarter earnings guidance on Thursday, October, 18th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $0.65-0.67 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.65. The company issued revenue guidance of $4.195-4.275 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $4.21 billion.Paypal also updated its FY 2018 guidance to $2.38-2.40 EPS.

36 analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Paypal's stock. Their predictions range from $43.00 to $119.00. On average, they expect Paypal's share price to reach $94.0294 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 11.6% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Paypal.

36 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Paypal in the last year. There are currently 6 hold ratings and 30 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Paypal.

News headlines about PYPL stock have been trending somewhat negative on Wednesday, according to InfoTrie. The research firm identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Paypal earned a news impact score of -1.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the credit services provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days.

Paypal saw a decline in short interest in the month of October. As of October 15th, there was short interest totalling 15,194,562 shares, a decline of 14.7% from the September 28th total of 17,820,036 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 11,322,465 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.3 days. Approximately 1.4% 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), eBay (EBAY), Worldpay (WP), Pinduoduo (PDD), Global Payments (GPN), FleetCor Technologies (FLT), First Data (FDC), Total System Services (TSS) and Mercadolibre (MELI).

Paypal's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (6.86%), BlackRock Inc. (6.23%), Edgewood Management LLC (1.42%), Jennison Associates LLC (1.15%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.89%) and American Century Companies Inc. (0.84%). Company insiders that own Paypal stock include Aaron Anderson, Aaron Karczmer, Adele Louise Pentland, Daniel H Schulman, David M Moffett, 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 Jackson Square Partners LLC, Jennison Associates LLC, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, OppenheimerFunds Inc., Third Point LLC, Janus Henderson Group PLC and Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Paypal company stock in the last year include Aaron Anderson, Aaron Karczmer, Adele Louise Pentland, Daniel H Schulman, David M Moffett, 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 FMR LLC, BlackRock Inc., Alliancebernstein L.P., Epoch Investment Partners Inc., AGF Investments Inc., Nan Shan Life Insurance Co. Ltd., American Century Companies Inc. and Edgewood Management LLC. 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 $84.23.

Paypal has a market capitalization of $98.72 billion and generates $13.09 billion in revenue each year. The credit services provider earns $1.80 billion in net income (profit) each year or $1.39 on an earnings per share basis. Paypal employs 18,700 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]