PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) Releases Q1 Earnings Guidance

PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) updated its first quarter earnings guidance on Tuesday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $1.15-1.17 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $1.13. PayPal also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 4.950-5.100 EPS.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

PYPL has been the subject of a number of recent analyst reports. Citigroup lifted their target price on shares of PayPal from $94.00 to $97.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Tuesday, January 14th. StockNews.com upgraded shares of PayPal from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note on Tuesday, December 24th. Susquehanna upped their target price on PayPal from $94.00 to $101.00 and gave the company a “positive” rating in a research report on Monday, January 6th. Wolfe Research raised PayPal from a “peer perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $107.00 price target for the company in a research report on Friday, December 13th. Finally, Sanford C. Bernstein cut PayPal from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating and raised their price objective for the stock from $75.00 to $80.00 in a research note on Thursday, October 10th. Fourteen research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, twenty-one have issued a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $89.48.

PayPal Stock Down 12.6 %

Shares of NASDAQ:PYPL traded down $11.29 during trading on Tuesday, hitting $78.22. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 44,574,207 shares, compared to its average volume of 9,874,284. The company has a market capitalization of $78.42 billion, a PE ratio of 18.68, a P/E/G ratio of 1.49 and a beta of 1.44. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.49, a quick ratio of 1.25 and a current ratio of 1.25. PayPal has a fifty-two week low of $55.77 and a fifty-two week high of $93.66. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $88.20 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $79.26.

PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, February 4th. The credit services provider reported $1.19 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.11 by $0.08. The company had revenue of $8.37 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $8.27 billion. PayPal had a net margin of 14.08% and a return on equity of 23.44%. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 4.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $1.48 earnings per share. As a group, research analysts expect that PayPal will post 4.58 EPS for the current fiscal year.

About PayPal

PayPal Holdings, Inc operates a technology platform that enables digital payments on behalf of merchants and consumers worldwide. It operates a two-sided network at scale that connects merchants and consumers that enables its customers to connect, transact, and send and receive payments through online and in person, as well as transfer and withdraw funds using various funding sources, such as bank accounts, PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products comprising its installment products, credit and debit cards, and cryptocurrencies, as well as other stored value products, including gift cards and eligible rewards.