PayPal Stock Forecast, Price & News

PayPal's stock was trading at $103.90 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, PYPL stock has increased by 106.1% and is now trading at $214.12.
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39 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for PayPal in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings, 34 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, February 3rd 2021.
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PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) announced its earnings results on Monday, November, 2nd. The credit services provider reported $1.07 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.94 by $0.13. The credit services provider earned $5.46 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $5.41 billion. PayPal had a net margin of 13.44% and a return on equity of 16.17%. The business's revenue was up 24.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $0.61 earnings per share.
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PayPal updated its fourth quarter earnings guidance on Monday, November, 2nd. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of approx $1.01 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $1.07. The company issued revenue guidance of $5.95-6.20 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $6.10 billion.

39 brokers have issued 12-month price objectives for PayPal's shares. Their forecasts range from $120.00 to $270.00. On average, they anticipate PayPal's share price to reach $205.05 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 4.2%.
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PayPal saw a increase in short interest in the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 16,520,000 shares, an increase of 14.4% from the October 31st total of 14,440,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 9,350,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.8 days. Approximately 1.5% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
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Some companies that are related to PayPal include Alibaba Group (BABA), Visa (V), Mastercard (MA), Accenture (ACN), Pinduoduo (PDD), Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), Uber Technologies (UBER), MercadoLibre (MELI), Global Payments (GPN), NetEase (NTES), CoStar Group (CSGP), eBay (EBAY), MSCI (MSCI), Zillow Group (ZG) and Zillow Group (Z).
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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), Netflix (NFLX), The Walt Disney (DIS), Square (SQ), salesforce.com (CRM), Tesla (TSLA), Visa (V), Mastercard (MA) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).

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

PayPal's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (3.96%), Nuveen Asset Management LLC (1.16%), Jennison Associates LLC (0.95%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (0.86%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (0.77%) and Morgan Stanley (0.72%). Company insiders that own PayPal stock include Aaron Anderson, Aaron Karczmer, Adele Louise Pentland, Daniel H Schulman, David M Moffett, Gary J Marino, John D Rainey, 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 Winslow Capital Management LLC, Nuveen Asset Management LLC, State Street Corp, Sustainable Growth Advisers LP, Jackson Square Partners LLC, First Trust Advisors LP, Retirement Systems of Alabama, and Jennison Associates LLC. Company insiders that have sold PayPal company stock in the last year include Aaron Anderson, Adele Louise Pentland, Daniel H Schulman, David M Moffett, John D Rainey, Jonathan Auerbach, and Mark Britto.
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PYPL stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including SB Management Ltd, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Findlay Park Partners LLP, Morgan Stanley, Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership, Oribel Capital Management LP, CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC, and Artemis Investment Management LLP.
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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 $214.12.

PayPal has a market capitalization of $250.88 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]