PayPal Stock Forecast, Price & News

41 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for PayPal in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings, 35 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities 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) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February, 3rd. The credit services provider reported $1.08 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.00 by $0.08. The credit services provider had revenue of $6.12 billion for 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 revenue for the quarter was up 23.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous 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 stock has increased by 159.7% and is now trading at $269.87.
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PayPal updated its first quarter 2021 After-Hours earnings guidance on Wednesday, February, 3rd. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 0.99-0.99 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share 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.

41 analysts have issued 1 year target prices for PayPal's shares. Their forecasts range from $125.00 to $375.00. On average, they expect PayPal's share price to reach $279.21 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 3.5% 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), Accenture (ACN), Pinduoduo (PDD), Uber Technologies (UBER), Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), MercadoLibre (MELI), NetEase (NTES), Global Payments (GPN), eBay (EBAY), MSCI (MSCI), CoStar Group (CSGP), Zillow Group (ZG) and Zillow Group (Z).
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PayPal trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "PYPL."

PayPal's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Tybourne Capital Management HK Ltd. (0.07%), Royal London Asset Management Ltd. (0.06%), Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Fiduciary Advisors LLP MA (0.05%), Retirement Systems of Alabama (0.05%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.03%) and DnB Asset Management AS (0.03%). 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, Peggy Alford and William J Ready.
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PYPL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Retirement Systems of Alabama, FDx Advisors Inc., AMI Asset Management Corp, Tybourne Capital Management HK Ltd., Gillespie Robinson & Grimm Inc., FDx Advisors Inc., Abner Herrman & Brock LLC, and Neville Rodie & Shaw Inc.. 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, Mark Britto, and Peggy Alford.
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PYPL stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Fiduciary Advisors LLP MA, DnB Asset Management AS, Verde Servicos Internacionais S.A., Everence Capital Management Inc., Royal London Asset Management Ltd., Park National Corp OH, Asset Advisors Investment Management LLC, and Community Trust & Investment Co..
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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 $269.87.

PayPal has a market capitalization of $316.90 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 26,500 workers across the globe.

The following companies are subsidiares of PayPal: Bill Me Later Inc., CyActive, HONEY, Jetlore, Modest Inc, PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie. S.C.A., PayPal 2 S.à r.l., PayPal Australia Pty Ltd., PayPal Canada Co., PayPal Global Holdings Inc., PayPal Inc., PayPal International Treasury Centre S.à r.l., PayPal Payment Holdings Pte. Ltd., PayPal Pte. Ltd., PayPal do Brasil Servicos de Pagamentos Ltda., Paydiant, Simility, Swift Capital, Swift Financial LLC, TIO Networks, Xoom, gopay, hyperWALLET Systems, and iZettle.

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]