NASDAQ:PYPL - Paypal Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Paypal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, January, 30th. The credit services provider reported $0.86 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.83 by $0.03. The credit services provider earned $4.96 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $4.94 billion. Paypal had a net margin of 13.84% and a return on equity of 17.33%. Paypal's revenue for the quarter was up 17.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.69 earnings per share. View Paypal's Earnings History.

Paypal is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 22nd 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Paypal.

Paypal issued an update on its FY20 earnings guidance on Wednesday, January, 29th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $3.39-3.46 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $3.49.

30 brokerages have issued 1-year target prices for Paypal's stock. Their forecasts range from $99.00 to $153.00. On average, they anticipate Paypal's stock price to reach $127.40 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 9.4% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Paypal.

30 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Paypal in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 26 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Paypal.

Headlines about PYPL stock have trended neutral on Tuesday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm rates the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. 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 media sentiment score of 0.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the credit services provider a news buzz of 9.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Paypal.

Paypal saw a increase in short interest in January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 15,810,000 shares, an increase of 10.6% from the December 31st total of 14,290,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 6,930,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.3 days. Currently, 1.4% of the company's stock are short sold. View Paypal's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Paypal include Alibaba Group (BABA), Visa (V), Mastercard (MA), Accenture (ACN), Fidelity National Information Servcs (FIS), Global Payments (GPN), NetEase (NTES), Worldpay (WP), Pinduoduo (PDD), Mercadolibre (MELI), eBay (EBAY), FleetCor Technologies (FLT), CoStar Group (CSGP), Msci (MSCI) and Total System Services (TSS).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Paypal investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Netflix (NFLX), Micron Technology (MU), Verizon Communications (VZ), Walt Disney (DIS), Bank of America (BAC), AT&T (T), Tesla (TSLA) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM).

Paypal's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include FMR LLC (5.07%), State Street Corp (3.95%), Capital World Investors (1.81%), Edgewood Management LLC (1.45%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.41%) and Alliancebernstein L.P. (1.01%). Company insiders that own Paypal stock include Aaron Anderson, Aaron Karczmer, Adele Louise Pentland, Daniel H Schulman, Frank D Yeary, Gary J Marino, John D Rainey, John J Donahoe, Jonathan Auerbach 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 FMR LLC, Investec Asset Management LTD, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Jennison Associates LLC, Panagora Asset Management Inc., Man Group plc, UBS Asset Management Americas Inc. and First Trust Advisors LP. Company insiders that have sold Paypal company stock in the last year include Aaron Karczmer, Adele Louise Pentland, Daniel H Schulman, John D Rainey, Jonathan Auerbach and William J Ready. View Insider Buying and Selling for Paypal.

PYPL stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Capital World Investors, Point72 Asset Management L.P., Melvin Capital Management LP, Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., Alliancebernstein L.P., Marshall Wace LLP, Manning & Napier Group LLC and Johanson Financial Advisors Inc.. 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of PYPL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $116.44.

Paypal has a market capitalization of $136.58 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.View Additional Information About Paypal.

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]