Quick Read – PYPL trades at 8x earnings while growing payment volume 11% to $464 billion and retiring $6 billion in stock over the past year. – Margins contracted, net income fell 13%, and management guided Q2 EPS down 9% as Apple Pay and Stripe pressure conversion rates. – Just…
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PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) at $42.51 looks compelling for research. The stock has lost 37.46% over the past year while the business kept generating cash, retiring shares, and growing payment volume, and that gap between price action and fundamentals is the trade. PayPal runs the largest independent digital payments network outside the card schemes, anchored by branded checkout, Venmo, and Hyperwallet.
A Q4 2025 earnings miss on revenue and EPS triggered a collapse from roughly $76 in October 2025 to about $42 in early February 2026, accompanied by securities class action lawsuits and the appointment of new CEO Enrique Lores. Why The Selloff Created A Cash-Flow Bargain The valuation has compressed to a 8 trailing P/E, an 8 forward P/E, and a 0.77 PEG ratio, levels usually reserved for businesses in structural decline, yet PayPal keeps growing. Total payment volume grew 11% to $463.95 billion in Q1 2026, and revenue rose 7.2% to $8.35 billion, beating estimates.