PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) Updates Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) updated its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 1.150-1.170 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 1.130. The company issued revenue guidance of -. PayPal also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 4.950-5.100 EPS.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of brokerages have issued reports on PYPL. Macquarie upped their price objective on PayPal from $95.00 to $115.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Tuesday, December 17th. Sanford C. Bernstein downgraded PayPal from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating and increased their price target for the stock from $75.00 to $80.00 in a report on Thursday, October 10th. BMO Capital Markets increased their price target on PayPal from $73.00 to $82.00 and gave the stock a “market perform” rating in a report on Wednesday, October 30th. Needham & Company LLC reiterated a “hold” rating on shares of PayPal in a report on Wednesday, October 30th. Finally, Stephens increased their price target on PayPal from $75.00 to $85.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a report on Friday, October 18th. Fourteen research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, twenty-one have assigned a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $89.48.

PayPal Stock Down 9.5 %

Shares of PYPL traded down $8.55 during midday trading on Tuesday, hitting $80.96. 16,145,693 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 8,437,189. PayPal has a 1 year low of $55.77 and a 1 year high of $93.66. The firm’s fifty day moving average is $88.16 and its 200-day moving average is $79.05. The company has a current ratio of 1.25, a quick ratio of 1.25 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.49. The stock has a market capitalization of $81.17 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 19.32, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.49 and a beta of 1.44.

PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February 4th. The credit services provider reported $1.19 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.11 by $0.08. PayPal had a return on equity of 23.44% and a net margin of 14.08%. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $1.48 earnings per share. As a group, sell-side analysts anticipate that PayPal will post 4.58 earnings per share for the current year.

PayPal Company Profile

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.