PayPal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) has a beta value of 1.43 and has seen 4.67 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $72.12B, closed the recent trade at $74.15 per share which meant it gained $2.79 on the day or 3.92% during that session. The PYPL stock price is -26.31% off its 52-week high price of $93.66 and 24.68% above the 52-week low of $55.85. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 9.11 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 9.56 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that PayPal Holdings Inc (PYPL) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 2.27. 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.
PayPal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) trade information
Sporting 3.92% in the green today, the stock has traded in the red over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the PYPL stock price touched $74.15 or saw a rise of 3.08%. Year-to-date, PayPal Holdings Inc shares have moved 25.90%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -2.66%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of PayPal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) have changed -0.61%. Short interest in the company has seen 27.56 million shares shorted with days to cover at 3.29.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $80, which means that the shares’ value could jump 7.31% from the levels at last check today.. The projected low price target is $75.0 while the price target rests at a high of $81.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is -9.24% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock gain -1.15% from the levels at last check today..
PayPal Holdings Inc (PYPL) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have lost -15.68% over the past 6 months.
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 14.03% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest 9.68% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 11.28%.
PYPL Dividends
PayPal Holdings Inc is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-Apr-29 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 0.13% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 79.43% with a share float percentage of 79.53%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with PayPal Holdings Inc having a total of 2593.0 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 8.4221% 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 6.9904% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund . As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 3.21% shares in the company for having 31.24 shares of worth $2.31 billion while later fund manager owns 27.49 shares of worth $2.03 billion as of Mar 31, 2025 , which makes it owner of about 2.83% of company’s outstanding stock.
