With 9.62 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 11.51 million shares. During the session, the Credit Services company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $68.91 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $66.7. The 52-week range on PYPL shows that it touched its highest point at $93.66 and its lowest point at $56.97 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $94.29. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.58.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of PYPL was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.72%, but this was down by -12.20% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -25.66% while six-month performance fell -2.82%. The stock gained 11.37% in the past year, while it has lost -21.61% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for PYPL yields 4.00 with Next year EPS estimates of 5.66. For the next quarter, that number is 1.16. This implies an EPS growth rate of 8.44% for this year and 12.27% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 11.62% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 14.03%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 993.00 million PYPL shares are outstanding with a float of 985.58 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-02-28, short shares totaled 36.1 million, which was 365.0 higher than short shares on 1738281600. In addition to Mr. James Alexander Chriss as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Ms. Jamie S. Miller serves as its CFO & COO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.78053004 of PYPL’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-12-31, PYPL reported revenue of $8366000000.0 and operating income of $1491000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $1865000000.0 and diluted EPS was $nan.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for PYPL since 30 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 18 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 12 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With PYPL analysts setting a high price target of 125.0 and a low target of 70.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 95.004. Based on these targets, PYPL could surge 86.82% to reach the target high and rise by 4.62% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 41.99% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $4.6661 being high and $4.55596 being low. For PYPL, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $4.586. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.32 and the low estimate is $1.14. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.22.
