NASDAQ:PYPLPaypal Stock Price, Forecast & News

Paypal's stock was trading at $103.90 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, PYPL shares have increased by 89.7% and is now trading at $197.07.
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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) released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July, 29th. The credit services provider reported $1.07 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the 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%. Paypal's revenue for the quarter was up 22.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $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 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 brokerages have issued 12 month price targets for Paypal's shares. Their forecasts range from $120.00 to $234.00. On average, they anticipate Paypal's share price to reach $192.36 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 2.4%.
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News coverage about PYPL stock has trended somewhat negative recently, according to InfoTrie. The research firm identifies negative and positive news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Paypal earned a news sentiment score of -1.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media headlines about the credit services provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock'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 15th, there was short interest totaling 13,400,000 shares, a drop of 7.3% from the June 30th total of 14,460,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 8,280,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.6 days. Approximately 1.2% of the company's shares 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 institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.45%), First Trust Advisors LP (0.29%), New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.15%), Provident Trust Co. (0.14%), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.13%) and Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. (0.12%). 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, Montag & Caldwell LLC, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., AMI Asset Management Corp, Strs Ohio, SeaTown Holdings Pte. 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, 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 SG Americas Securities LLC, Railway Pension Investments Ltd, Douglass Winthrop Advisors LLC, PGGM Investments, Atalanta Sosnoff Capital LLC, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., ProShare Advisors LLC, and Candriam Luxembourg S.C.A..
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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 $197.07.

Paypal has a market capitalization of $231.22 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]