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 authorized a share buyback plan on Sunday, June 4th 2017, which permits the company to buyback $5,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to reacquire up to 9.3% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are usually an indication that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

Paypal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, January, 30th. The credit services provider reported $0.69 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.67 by $0.02. The credit services provider had revenue of $4.23 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $4.23 billion. Paypal had a return on equity of 14.67% and a net margin of 13.31%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 13.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.55 EPS. View Paypal's Earnings History.

Paypal is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 24th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Paypal.

Paypal issued an update on its FY19 earnings guidance on Wednesday, January, 30th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.84-2.91 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $2.89. The company issued revenue guidance of $17.8-18.1 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $18.03 billion.Paypal also updated its FY 2019 guidance to $2.84-2.91 EPS.

34 brokers have issued twelve-month target prices for Paypal's shares. Their forecasts range from $43.00 to $119.00. On average, they expect Paypal's share price to reach $98.4794 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 2.7%. View Analyst Price Targets for Paypal.

34 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Paypal in the last year. There are currently 10 hold ratings and 24 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Paypal.

Press coverage about PYPL stock has been trending somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog 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 1.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the credit services provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future.

Paypal saw a decline in short interest during the month of February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totalling 18,823,659 shares, a decline of 12.0% from the February 15th total of 21,388,897 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 6,577,540 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.9 days. Currently, 1.7% of the company's shares 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), Booking (BKNG), Fidelity National Information Servcs (FIS), eBay (EBAY), NetEase (NTES), Worldpay (WP), Pinduoduo (PDD), First Data (FDC), Ctrip.Com International (CTRP), Mercadolibre (MELI), Global Payments (GPN) and FleetCor Technologies (FLT).

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), Visa (V), salesforce.com (CRM), Adobe (ADBE), Mastercard (MA), Square (SQ) and Walt Disney (DIS).

Paypal's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (6.81%), BlackRock Inc. (6.35%), Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund (1.65%), Fundsmith LLP (1.29%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.23%) and Northern Trust Corp (1.14%). Company insiders that own Paypal stock include Aaron Anderson, Aaron Karczmer, Adele Louise Pentland, Daniel H Schulman, David M Moffett, Frank D Yeary, 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 Third Point LLC, Jennison Associates LLC, M&T Bank Corp, Coatue Management LLC, FMR LLC, First Trust Advisors LP, Macquarie Group Ltd. and Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management Company LTD. Company insiders that have sold Paypal company stock in the last year include Aaron Anderson, Aaron Karczmer, Adele Louise Pentland, Daniel H Schulman, 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 purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, Norges Bank, Lunia Capital LP, DSM Capital Partners LLC, BlackRock Inc., Carmignac Gestion, Pendal Group Ltd and Geode Capital Management LLC. Company insiders that have bought Paypal stock in the last two years include Frank D Yeary and Rodney C Adkins. 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 $101.24.

Paypal has a market capitalization of $118.78 billion and generates $15.45 billion in revenue each year. The credit services provider earns $2.06 billion in net income (profit) each year or $1.79 on an earnings per share basis. Paypal employs 21,800 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]