Here's a Quick Look Into the Fundamentals of PayPal Stock

By Ken Smith • Tuesday, September 12 12:06 • Permanent Link

Shares of Business Services company PayPal jumped 2.3% today. With many investors piling into PYPL without a second thought, it may be a good idea to take a closer look at the stock. Here are some quick facts to get you started:

PayPal has moved -33.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 15.0%
PYPL has an average analyst rating of buy and is -26.62% away from its mean target price of $86.38 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $3.62
PayPal has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 17.5 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $5.64 and its forward P/E ratio is 11.2
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 3.55 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
PayPal is part of the Consumer Discretionary sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 22.33 and an average P/B of 3.12
The company has a free cash flow of $3.35 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
PayPal Holdings, Inc. operates a technology platform that enables digital payments on behalf of merchants and consumers worldwide. The company provides payment solutions under the PayPal, PayPal Credit, Braintree, Venmo, Xoom, PayPal Zettle, Hyperwallet, PayPal Honey, and Paidy names. Its payments platform allows consumers to send and receive payments in approximately 200 markets and in approximately 150 currencies, withdraw funds to their bank accounts in 56 currencies, and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

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