PayPal Holdings Inc (PYPL) Is A Buy According To Analysts

PayPal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) has a beta value of 1.44 and has seen 3.17 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $79.76B, closed the recent trade at $78.02 per share which meant it lost -$0.32 on the day or -0.41% during that session. The PYPL stock price is -1.04% off its 52-week high price of $78.83 and 35.59% above the 52-week low of $50.25. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 13.1 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 12.44 million shares.

The consensus among analysts is that PayPal Holdings Inc (PYPL) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 2.14. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 12 out of 30 have rated it as a Hold, with 18 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight. The expected earnings per share for the stock is 1.06.

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PayPal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) trade information

Sporting -0.41% in the red today, the stock has traded in the green over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the PYPL stock price touched $78.02 or saw a rise of 1.56%. Year-to-date, PayPal Holdings Inc shares have moved 27.05%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change 6.70%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of PayPal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) have changed 8.30%. Short interest in the company has seen 22.68 million shares shorted with days to cover at 1.61.

Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $87.5, which means that the shares’ value could jump 10.83% from the levels at last check today. The projected low price target is $62.0 while the price target rests at a high of $290.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is -271.7% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock lose 20.53% from the levels at last check today.

PayPal Holdings Inc (PYPL) estimates and forecasts

Figures show that PayPal Holdings Inc shares have underperformed across the wider relevant industry. The company’s shares have gained 17.03% over the past 6 months, with this year growth rate of -13.33%, compared to 18.40% for the industry. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be 14.80%.

28 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of 7.88B for the current quarter. 28 have an estimated revenue figure of 8.48B for the next ending quarter. Year-ago sales stood 7.42B and 7.5B respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will grow by 6.20% for the current quarter and 14.80% for the next.

If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was 17.54% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2024 is a modest -13.30% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 19.45%.

PYPL Dividends

PayPal Holdings Inc is expected to release its next earnings report on 2024-Oct-30 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue.

PayPal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL)’s Major holders

Insiders own 0.21% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 74.17% with a share float percentage of 74.32%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with PayPal Holdings Inc having a total of 2500.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 87.76 million shares worth more than $5.09 billion. As of 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC held 8.248% of shares outstanding.

The other major institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., with the holding of over 72.84 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $4.23 billion and represent 6.8459% of shares outstanding.

Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard 500 Index Fund. As of Jun 30, 2024, the former fund manager holds about 3.23% shares in the company for having 33.07 shares of worth $2.58 billion while later fund manager owns 26.85 shares of worth $2.09 billion as of Jun 30, 2024, which makes it owner of about 2.63% of company’s outstanding stock.