PayPal Stock Forecast, Price & News

PayPal's stock was trading at $103.90 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, PYPL shares have increased by 135.8% and is now trading at $244.95.
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39 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for PayPal in the last twelve months. There are currently 5 hold ratings, 33 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" PayPal stock.
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1,428 PayPal have rated CEO Doug Parker on Glassdoor.com. 59.00 % of employees approve of the job that Doug Parker has done as CEO. This puts Doug Parker in the bottom 25% of CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

PayPal is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 3rd 2021.
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PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) issued its quarterly earnings results on Monday, November, 2nd. The credit services provider reported $1.07 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.94 by $0.13. The credit services provider earned $5.46 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $5.41 billion. PayPal had a return on equity of 18.31% and a net margin of 15.48%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 24.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.61 earnings per share.
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PayPal issued an update on 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 earnings per share 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 brokerages have issued 12-month price objectives for PayPal's shares. Their forecasts range from $122.00 to $350.00. On average, they expect PayPal's stock price to reach $214.61 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 12.4%.
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Some companies that are related to PayPal include Alibaba Group (BABA), Visa (V), Mastercard (MA), Pinduoduo (PDD), Accenture (ACN), Uber Technologies (UBER), MercadoLibre (MELI), Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), NetEase (NTES), Global Payments (GPN), eBay (EBAY), Zillow Group (ZG), CoStar Group (CSGP), MSCI (MSCI) 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 a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.07%), Douglas Lane & Associates LLC (0.04%), Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Fiduciary Advisors LLP MA (0.03%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.03%), Barton Investment Management (0.03%) and Atalanta Sosnoff Capital LLC (0.03%). 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 Manning & Napier Group LLC, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, Brookstone Capital Management, Gillespie Robinson & Grimm Inc., Axel Capital Management LLC, Douglas Lane & Associates LLC, Portland Hill Asset Management Ltd, and Ardevora Asset Management LLP. 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 acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Fiduciary Advisors LLP MA, Stock Yards Bank & Trust Co., CHURCHILL MANAGEMENT Corp, Louisiana State Employees Retirement System, Deltec Asset Management LLC, Coastal Investment Advisors Inc., IFM Investors Pty Ltd, and Traynor Capital Management Inc..
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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.

One share of PYPL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $244.95.

PayPal has a market capitalization of $287.01 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]