NASDAQ:PYPLPaypal Stock Price, Forecast & News

Paypal's stock was trading at $103.90 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, PYPL shares have increased by 84.1% and is now trading at $191.32.
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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) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, July, 29th. The credit services provider reported $1.07 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.61 by $0.46. The credit services provider earned $5.26 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $4.99 billion. Paypal had a return on equity of 16.17% and a net margin of 13.44%. The business's revenue was up 22.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.86 earnings per share.
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Paypal updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Wednesday, July, 29th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $3.88 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS 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 12 month price objectives for Paypal's shares. Their forecasts range from $120.00 to $234.00. On average, they expect Paypal's share price to reach $192.36 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 0.5% from the stock's current price.
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News stories about PYPL stock have been trending very negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm identifies negative and positive media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Paypal earned a media sentiment score of -3.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the credit services provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days.
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Paypal saw a drop in short interest in the month of February. As of February 15th, there was short interest totaling 13,070,000 shares, a drop of 16.8% from the January 31st total of 15,700,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 6,990,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.9 days. Approximately 1.2% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
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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), Walt Disney (DIS), salesforce.com (CRM), Visa (V), Mastercard (MA), Square (SQ), Micron Technology (MU) 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 Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.99%), Jennison Associates LLC (0.97%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (0.83%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.45%), Swiss National Bank (0.38%) and Principal Financial Group Inc. (0.36%). 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., Toronto Dominion Bank, Jackson Square Partners LLC, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, First Trust Advisors LP, Principal Financial Group Inc., Montag & Caldwell LLC, and Menora Mivtachim Holdings LTD.. 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 purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Jennison Associates LLC, Fisher Asset Management LLC, SG Americas Securities LLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Railway Pension Investments Ltd, Bank of Nova Scotia, Ensign Peak Advisors Inc, and Rafferty Asset Management 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 $191.32.

Paypal has a market capitalization of $224.48 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]