In the last trading session, 8.75 million shares of the PayPal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) were traded, and its beta was 1.42. Most recently the company’s share price was $75.03, and it changed around -$1.15 or -1.51% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $72.97B. PYPL currently trades at a discount to its 52-week high of $93.66, offering almost -24.83% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $55.85, which indicates that the current value has risen by an impressive 25.56% since then. We note from PayPal Holdings Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 8.37 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 9.93 million.
PayPal Holdings Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, based on a mean score of 2.31. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 3 out of 47 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 7 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 21 recommended PYPL as a Hold, whereas 16 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight. PayPal Holdings Inc is expected to report earnings per share of 1.29 for the current quarter.
PayPal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) trade information
Instantly PYPL has showed a red trend with a performance of -1.51% at the end of last trading. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 77.36 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 3.01%. The company’s shares are currently up 25.80% year-to-date, but still up 0.96% over the last five days. On the other hand, PayPal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) is 3.53% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 27.56 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 3.29 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $80, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 6.21% from its current value. Analyst projections state that PYPL is forecast to be at a low of $75 and a high of $81.
PayPal Holdings Inc (PYPL) estimates and forecasts
The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 2.70%, up from the previous year.
Consensus estimates provided by 31 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 8.08B in revenue for the current quarter. 30 analysts expect PayPal Holdings Inc to make 8.13B in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 7.88B and 7.85B respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will jump, forecast at 2.44%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at 3.59%.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 14.03%. PayPal Holdings Inc earnings are expected to increase by 9.61% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 11.29% per year for the next five years.
PYPL Dividends
PayPal Holdings Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-Apr-29.
PayPal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 0.13% of PayPal Holdings Inc shares, and 79.43% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 79.53%. PayPal Holdings Inc stock is held by 2593.0 institutions, with VANGUARD GROUP INC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 8.4221% of the shares, which is about 87.76 million shares worth $5.09 billion.
BLACKROCK INC., with 6.9904% or 72.84 million shares worth $4.23 billion as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Mar 31, 2025 . The former held 31.24 shares worth $2.34 billion, making up 3.21% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund held roughly 27.49 shares worth around $2.06 billion, which represents about 2.83% of the total shares outstanding.
