Currently, there are 993.00M common shares owned by the public and among those 985.52M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -3.68% and -34.34% over the past three months. PYPL shares are trading -29.37% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -4.70% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $55.85 and touched a high of $93.66 over the same period. PYPL has an average intraday trading volume of 12.69 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -5.30%, -12.45%, and -20.05% respectively.
Institutional ownership of PayPal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: PYPL) shares accounts for 75.53% of the company’s 993.00M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $59.64B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.47. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 15.08, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $4.00. The company has a PEG of 1.40 and a Quick Ratio of 1.26 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.58. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.62% over the week and 4.32% over the month.
Analysts forecast that PayPal Holdings Inc (PYPL) will achieve an EPS of 1.16 for the current quarter, 1.21 for the next quarter and 5.56 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 1.1 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 1.1. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 1.08 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 7.77%, and 11.47% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of 10.78% over the next five years, compared to 14.03% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the PYPL, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Seaport Research Partners stated their Sell rating for the stock in a research note on April 17, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $49. BofA Securities coverage for the PayPal Holdings Inc (PYPL) stock in a research note released on April 14, 2025 offered a Buy rating with a price target of $93. DZ Bank was of a view on February 28, 2025 that the stock is Buy, while Susquehanna gave the stock Positive rating on January 06, 2025, issuing a price target of $94- $101. Macquarie on their part issued Outperform rating on December 17, 2024.
