NASDAQ:PYPLPaypal Stock Price, Forecast & News

Paypal's stock was trading at $103.90 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, PYPL stock has increased by 94.4% and is now trading at $201.98.
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40 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Paypal in the last year. There are currently 6 hold ratings, 33 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."
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Paypal is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, October 28th 2020.
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Paypal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, July, 29th. The credit services provider reported $1.07 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.61 by $0.46. The credit services provider had revenue of $5.26 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $4.99 billion. Paypal had a net margin of 13.44% and a return on equity of 16.17%. Paypal's revenue was up 22.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $0.86 earnings per share.
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Paypal issued an update on its FY20 earnings guidance on Wednesday, July, 29th. The company provided EPS guidance of $3.88 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $3.39. The company issued revenue guidance of $20.79 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $20.37 billion.

40 analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for Paypal's shares. Their forecasts range from $120.00 to $234.00. On average, they expect Paypal's stock price to reach $192.36 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 4.8%.
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Media headlines about PYPL stock have trended somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Paypal earned a media sentiment score of 1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the credit services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days.
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Paypal saw a drop in short interest during the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totaling 13,400,000 shares, a drop of 7.3% from the July 15th total of 14,460,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 8,280,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.6 days. Currently, 1.2% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Paypal investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Walt Disney (DIS), Netflix (NFLX), Micron Technology (MU), salesforce.com (CRM), Visa (V), Mastercard (MA), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Adobe (ADBE).

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

Paypal's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Jennison Associates LLC (0.97%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.45%), Swiss National Bank (0.38%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (0.36%), First Trust Advisors LP (0.29%) and New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.15%). 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, Mark Britto and William J Ready.
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PYPL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Assenagon Asset Management S.A., First Trust Advisors LP, Principal Financial Group Inc., Montag & Caldwell LLC, Menora Mivtachim Holdings LTD., Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., Russell Investments Group Ltd., and Hosking Partners LLP. Company insiders that have sold Paypal company stock in the last year include Aaron Anderson, Adele Louise Pentland, Daniel H Schulman, John D Rainey, Jonathan Auerbach, and Mark Britto.
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PYPL stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Jennison Associates LLC, SG Americas Securities LLC, Railway Pension Investments Ltd, Douglass Winthrop Advisors LLC, PGGM Investments, Atalanta Sosnoff Capital LLC, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., and ProShare Advisors LLC.
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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 Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of PYPL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $201.98.

Paypal has a market capitalization of $236.98 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.

The official website for Paypal is 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]