PYPL Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Paypal Holdings | NASDAQ:PYPL)

PayPal was spun off from eBay in 2015 and provides electronic payment solutions to merchants and consumers, with a focus on online transactions. The company had 434 million active accounts at the end of 2024. The company also owns Venmo, a person-to-person payment platform.

Paypal Holdings trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol PYPL.

As of March 6, 2026, PYPL stock price declined to $46.97 with 14,571,992 million shares trading.

PYPL has a beta of 1.31, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. PYPL has a correlation of 0.28 to the broad based SPY ETF.

PYPL has a market cap of $43.95 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Paypal Holdings reported $9 billion in Revenue and $1.23 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-104 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.06.

In the last 3 years, PYPL traded as high as $93.66 and as low as $38.46.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that PYPL belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, QQQ, IVV, SPY.

PYPL has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -32.0%, while the SPY ETF gained +16.6%. In the last 3 month period, PYPL fell short of the market, returning -24.4%, while SPY returned -1.7%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks PYPL has outperformed the stock market by returning +12.9%, while SPY returned -1.8%.

PYPL support price is $46.27 and resistance is $49.01 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that PYPL shares will trade within this expected range on the day.