PayPal Holdings, Inc. offers a technology platform that enables digital payments and simplifies commerce experiences on behalf of merchants and consumers worldwide. Its payment solutions enable its customers to connect, transact, and send and receive payments, whether they are online or in person. It provides payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on its platform on behalf of its customers. It operates a global, two-sided network at scale that connects merchants and consumers with 426 million active accounts across 200 markets. Its brands include PayPal, Braintree, Venmo, Xoom, Hyperwallet, PayPal Zettle, PayPal Honey, and Paidy. More details about PayPal Holdings at:
http://www.paypal.com.
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Should PayPal Holdings shares be counted among the
Top 10 Cheap Tech Stocks? To start, we see that the recent trading price for PYPL stock is $71.57 (as of 5/15/2025). The most recent quarter's (MRQ) earnings result, annualized, was $5.32/share. Looking at the sum total of quarterly earnings across the trailing twelve month (TTM) period, PayPal Holdings produced $4.91/share. And taking the median quarterly result across the TTM period, and annualizing it, results in $4.76/share. Comparing these various earnings metrics against the stock price, we end up with a PE ratio of 15.0 for the TTM Median method, 13.5 for price to earnings using MRQ annualized, and 14.6 for current price/TTM earnings. Based on PYPL's history, that recent TTM PE is low relative to the historical average, with the recent PE 55.1% lower than the average (TTM method) of 32.5.