Paypal Holdings Inc ($PYPL) Possible Buy to $108 Confident Investor Rating: Good

Company name Paypal Holdings Inc
Stock ticker PYPL
Live stock price [stckqut]PYPL[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Fair
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Good

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $129.87
Target stock price (averages with growth) $188.42
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $127.99
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $119.72

The following company description is from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-profile/pypl

PayPal Holdings, Inc., incorporated on January 30, 2015, is a technology platform and digital payments company that enables digital and mobile payments on behalf of consumers and merchants. The Company’s combined payment solutions, including its PayPal, PayPal Credit, Braintree, Venmo, Xoom and Paydiant products, compose its Payments Platform. The Company operates a two-sided global technology platform that links its customers, both merchants, and consumers, around the globe to facilitate the processing of payment transactions, allowing it to connect merchants and consumers. The Company allows its customers to use their account for both purchases and paying for goods, as well as to transfer and withdraw funds. The Company enables consumers to exchange funds with merchants using a range of funding sources, which include a bank account, a PayPal account balance, a PayPal Credit account, a credit and debit card or other stored value products, such as coupons and gift cards. The Company offers consumers person-to-person (P2P) payment solutions through its PayPal Website and mobile application, Venmo and Xoom.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Paypal Holdings Inc as long as the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable. I am adding Paypal to my Watch List.

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How was this analysis of Paypal Holdings Inc calculated?

For owners of my book, “The Confident Investor” I offer the following analysis (you must be logged in to this site as a book owner in order to see the following analysis). If you have registered and cannot see the balance of this article, make sure you are logged in and refresh your browser.
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In order to assist you in using the techniques of this book, the values that I used when calculating the Manual pricing above were:

  • Stock price at the time of the calculation: $84.09
  • Growth: 0.18
  • Current EPS (TTM): $1.72
  • P/E: 49
  • Future EPS Calc: $3.93
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $192.81
  • Target stock price: $119.72

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