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 stock repurchase 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 purchase up to 9.3% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are usually an indication that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Paypal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, January, 30th. The credit services provider reported $0.69 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.67 by $0.02. The credit services provider earned $4.23 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $4.23 billion. Paypal had a net margin of 13.31% and a return on equity of 14.67%. Paypal's revenue was up 13.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.55 earnings per share. 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 (EPS) guidance of $2.84-2.91 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus 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.

33 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Paypal's stock. Their forecasts range from $43.00 to $119.00. On average, they anticipate Paypal's stock price to reach $97.8069 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 1.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Paypal.

33 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Paypal in the last year. There are currently 9 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 trended somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Paypal earned a media sentiment score of 1.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the credit services provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days.

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), Pinduoduo (PDD), NetEase (NTES), FleetCor Technologies (FLT), Worldpay (WP), First Data (FDC), Global Payments (GPN), Ctrip.Com International (CTRP) and Total System Services (TSS).

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), Walt Disney (DIS) and Square (SQ).

Paypal's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (6.35%), Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund (1.65%), Fundsmith LLP (1.29%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.23%), Northern Trust Corp (1.14%) and Jennison Associates LLC (0.89%). 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, First Trust Advisors LP, Macquarie Group Ltd., Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management Company LTD and Bank of Montreal Can. 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, Lunia Capital LP, DSM Capital Partners LLC, BlackRock Inc., Carmignac Gestion, Pendal Group Ltd, Geode Capital Management LLC and Gotham Asset 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 $95.98.

Paypal has a market capitalization of $112.60 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]