PayPal Stock Forecast, Price & News

41 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for PayPal in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings, 35 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" PayPal stock.
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PayPal is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 5th 2021.
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PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February, 3rd. The credit services provider reported $1.08 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.00 by $0.08. The credit services provider earned $6.12 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $6.09 billion. PayPal had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 18.31% and a net margin of 15.48%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 23.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $0.86 earnings per share.
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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 stock has increased by 138.1% and is now trading at $247.40.
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PayPal issued an update on its second quarter 2021 earnings guidance on Wednesday, May, 5th. The company provided EPS guidance of 1.120-1.120 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $1.100. The company issued revenue guidance of $6.25 billion-$6.25 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $6.16 billion.

41 analysts have issued 1 year price targets for PayPal's stock. Their forecasts range from $125.00 to $375.00. On average, they anticipate PayPal's stock price to reach $279.97 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 13.2% from the stock's current price.
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1,581 employees have rated PayPal CEO Dan Schulman on Glassdoor.com. Dan Schulman has an approval rating of 92% among PayPal's employees. This puts Dan Schulman in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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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 Fisher Asset Management LLC (0.94%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.50%), Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. (0.18%), Nikko Asset Management Americas Inc. (0.17%), Provident Trust Co. (0.14%) and Flossbach Von Storch AG (0.14%). Company insiders that own PayPal stock include Aaron Anderson, Aaron Karczmer, Adele Louise Pentland, Ann Sarnoff, Daniel H Schulman, David M Moffett, John D Rainey, Jonathan Auerbach, Mark Britto and Peggy Alford.
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PYPL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Artemis Investment Management LLP, Manning & Napier Group LLC, TCW Group Inc., Retirement Systems of Alabama, FDx Advisors Inc., The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company , Los Angeles Capital Management LLC, and Strs Ohio. Company insiders that have sold PayPal company stock in the last year include Aaron Anderson, Adele Louise Pentland, Ann Sarnoff, Daniel H Schulman, David M Moffett, John D Rainey, Jonathan Auerbach, Mark Britto, and Peggy Alford.
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PYPL stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Oak Ridge Investments LLC, Fisher Asset Management LLC, Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Fiduciary Advisors LLP MA, Nikko Asset Management Americas Inc., DnB Asset Management AS, Flossbach Von Storch AG, Verde Servicos Internacionais S.A., and Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V..
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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 WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of PYPL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $247.40.

PayPal has a market capitalization of $290.51 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 26,500 workers across the globe.

The following companies are subsidiares of PayPal: Bill Me Later Inc., CyActive, HONEY, Jetlore, Modest Inc, PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie. S.C.A., PayPal 2 S.à r.l., PayPal Australia Pty Ltd., PayPal Canada Co., PayPal Global Holdings Inc., PayPal Inc., PayPal International Treasury Centre S.à r.l., PayPal Payment Holdings Pte. Ltd., PayPal Pte. Ltd., PayPal do Brasil Servicos de Pagamentos Ltda., Paydiant, Simility, Swift Capital, Swift Financial LLC, TIO Networks, Xoom, gopay, hyperWALLET Systems, and iZettle.

PayPal was founded in 1998.

The official website for PayPal is www.paypal.com.

PayPal is headquartered at 2211 NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE CA, 95131.

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]