PayPal Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) saw an upside of 0.15% to close Monday at $59.51 after adding $0.09 on the day. The 5-day average trading volume is 20,476,420 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $62.77 in the past week and touched a new high 1 time within the past 5 days. An average of 18,962,480 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 17,846,686.
PYPL’s 1-month performance is -18.47% or -$13.48 on its low of $57.29 reached on 08/18/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $57.29 and high of $99.30, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 02/02/23. YTD, PYPL has lost -16.44% or -$11.71 and has reached a new high 11 times. However, the current price is down -40.07% from the 52-week high price.
Insider Transactions
PYPL stock investors last saw insider trading activity on Feb 17.Scheibe Gabrielle () most recently sold 150 shares at $94.95 per share on Sep 16. This transaction cost the insider $14,242.
Valuation Metrics
PYPL stock has a beta of 1.36. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 2.26 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 3.36, with the price to cash flow ratio at 18.87.
PayPal Holdings Inc.’s quick ratio for the recent period was 1.30, with the current ratio over the same period at 1.30. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 41.30%. The trailing 12-month EBITDA margin is 18.11%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $11.65 billion against revenue of $27.52 billion.
Earnings Surprise
Net income and sales went up compared to those figures reported in the previous quarter. Net income grew 133.14% to $1.03 billion, while revenue of $795.0 million was 22.74% off the previous quarter. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $1.4 billion. PYPL stock balance sheet for the recent quarter shows that total liabilities totaled 54.92 billion, with total debt at $11.21 billion. Shareholders hold equity totaling $1.1 billion.
Let’s look briefly at PayPal Holdings Inc. (PYPL) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 21 August was 32.06% to suggest the stock is trending Neutral, with historical volatility in this time period at 39.41%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $59.34, reflecting a -5.94% or -$3.76 change from its current price. PYPL is currently trading -19.24% above its 20-day SMA, -18.14% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by -7.36% and SMA200 by-28.40%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 8.74% and 5.29% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 2.05. The RSI (14) points at 34.52%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 12.54% with the period’s ATR at 2.08. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -1.52 and -3.25 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for PayPal Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL), Evercore ISI downgraded it to an In-line rating. They previously had an Outperform rating on the stock. Analysts offering their rating for PYPL stock have a consensus rating for the stock as Overweight. Currently, 1 brokerage advisors rate PYPL as a “sell,”, while 13 advise that investors “Hold.” 0 analysts have rated the stock as underweight. 4 rates the stock as overweight while 27 have offered a “buy” rating.
What is PYPL’s price target for the next 12 months?
Analysts have a consensus price target ranging from a low of $55.00 and a high of $126.00, with their median price target at $85.00. Looking at these predictions, the average price target given by analysts is for PayPal Holdings Inc. (PYPL) stock is $86.04.
