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

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

Paypal declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock buyback program on Sunday, June 4th 2017, which authorizes the company to buyback $5,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to repurchase up to 9.3% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are often an indication that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Paypal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October, 18th. The credit services provider reported $0.58 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.54 by $0.04. The credit services provider had revenue of $3.68 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $3.66 billion. Paypal had a return on equity of 13.60% and a net margin of 13.98%. The firm's revenue was up 13.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior 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 issued an update on 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 brokerages have issued 12 month target prices for Paypal's stock. Their forecasts range from $43.00 to $119.00. On average, they anticipate Paypal's share price to reach $94.4857 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 8.9% 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.

Media coverage about PYPL stock has been trending somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Paypal earned a daily sentiment score of 1.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the credit services provider a news buzz of 8.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is very likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days.

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

Paypal's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors 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, Macquarie Group Ltd., AQR Capital Management LLC, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, OppenheimerFunds Inc. and Third Point LLC. 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 acquired 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 $86.74.

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]