NASDAQ:PYPL - Paypal Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Paypal trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "PYPL."

Paypal announced that its Board of Directors has approved a share buyback plan on Sunday, June 4th 2017, which allows the company to repurchase $5,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to repurchase up to 9.3% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are often an indication that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Paypal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, April, 24th. The credit services provider reported $0.58 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.47 by $0.11. The credit services provider had revenue of $4.13 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $4.13 billion. Paypal had a net margin of 13.31% and a return on equity of 14.67%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 12.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $0.57 EPS. View Paypal's Earnings History.

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

Paypal updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Wednesday, April, 24th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.86-2.93 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $2.89. The company issued revenue guidance of $17.85-18.10 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $17.99 billion.Paypal also updated its FY 2019 guidance to $2.94-3.01 EPS.

33 equities research analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Paypal's stock. Their predictions range from $43.00 to $125.00. On average, they expect Paypal's share price to reach $106.0569 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.8%. 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 11 hold ratings and 22 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Paypal.

News headlines about PYPL stock have been trending somewhat negative on Friday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm identifies positive and negative news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Paypal earned a media sentiment score of -1.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the credit services provider a news buzz of 1.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term.

Paypal saw a drop in short interest during the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totalling 14,052,592 shares, a drop of 25.3% from the February 28th total of 18,823,659 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 6,384,715 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.2 days. Currently, 1.3% of the company's shares are sold short. 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), NetEase (NTES), Worldpay (WP), eBay (EBAY), Pinduoduo (PDD), First Data (FDC), Ctrip.Com International (CTRP), Global Payments (GPN), FleetCor Technologies (FLT) and Mercadolibre (MELI).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Paypal investors own include Alibaba Group (BABA), NVIDIA (NVDA), Netflix (NFLX), Micron Technology (MU), Visa (V), salesforce.com (CRM), Adobe (ADBE), Walt Disney (DIS), Mastercard (MA) and Square (SQ).

Paypal's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Investec Asset Management LTD (0.35%), Strs Ohio (0.12%), Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc. (0.09%), Retirement Systems of Alabama (0.08%), First Manhattan Co. (0.08%) and Douglas Lane & Associates LLC (0.05%). 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 Investec Asset Management LTD, Calamos Advisors LLC, AMI Asset Management Corp, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, Highland Capital Management LLC, Pennsylvania Trust Co, 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, 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 acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Columbus Circle Investors, Pacer Advisors Inc., Cohen Klingenstein LLC, Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc., LA Financiere DE L Echiquier, Boston Advisors LLC, Rosenblum Silverman Sutton S F Inc. CA and Jupiter Wealth 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 $110.22.

Paypal has a market capitalization of $129.20 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]