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 426 million active accounts at the end of 2023. 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 February 3, 2025, PYPL stock price climbed to $89.51 with 9,633,009 million shares trading.

PYPL has a beta of 0.91, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. PYPL has a correlation of 0.15 to the broad based SPY ETF.

PYPL has a market cap of $89.74 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Paypal Holdings reported $8 billion in Revenue and $1.20 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-43 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.13.

In the last 3 years, PYPL traded as high as $176.20 and as low as $50.25.

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

PYPL has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +45.9%, while the SPY ETF gained +25.3%. In the last 3 month period, PYPL beat the market returning +12.9%, while SPY returned +5.5%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks PYPL has underperformed the stock market by returning -2.5%, while SPY returned 0.0%.

PYPL support price is $86.84 and resistance is $90.32 (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.