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PayPal · August 2021
PYPLFinancials1-year horizonEasy
Imagine you already own shares of this company.
Everything on this page is limited to information available on August 2, 2021.
The situation
- Date
- August 2, 2021
- You own
- Shares of PayPal
- Period
- 1 year, until August 2022
Decide what to do with your shares.
The company at the time
PayPal runs one of the world's largest online payment services, including the Venmo app. The pandemic had pushed a lot of shopping online, and its revenue grew more than 20% in 2020, with high profit margins and steady free cash flow. Investors were paying a high price for that growth: its P/E was well above its usual level over the previous five years. Last week it reported results and said growth would be slower for the rest of the year, partly because eBay, for years its largest source of payments, was moving to handle payments itself.
Information available at the time
The same numbers as on company pages, as they had been reported by August 2, 2021. Sector medians aren't shown because StockLab doesn't have them as they stood back then.
Revenue, growth, profit and cash flow are for fiscal year 2020 (ended December 2020), the latest full year in an annual report filed by then; cash and debt come from the latest report (its date is on the card). Results announced after that aren't in these cards yet, even if the story above mentions them, so their numbers can differ.
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$270.99
Close on Aug 2, 2021
$318.4B
5-year trends
Annual figures, fiscal years 2016-2020.
Stock price
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What would you do?
No virtual money and no score. After you choose, you'll see what happened and a review of the reasoning.