I think Paypal Holdings Inc ($PYPL) is a Possible Buy. It currently should be $180. Confident Investor Rating: Good
Company name | Paypal Holdings Inc |
Stock ticker | PYPL |
Live stock price | [stckqut]PYPL[/stckqut] |
P/E compared to competitors | Fair |
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity | Good |
Sales growth | Good |
EPS growth | Good |
P/E growth | Poor |
EBITDA growth | Good |
Price growth | Good |
R&D growth | Good |
Income growth | Good |
Assets growth | Fair |
Return on Assets growth | Good |
Income / Rev growth | Good |
TWCA Plus | Good |
Standard TWCA | Good |
Weighted ann. stock price increase | Good |
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating | Good |
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $249.12 |
Target stock price (averages with growth) | $274.09 |
Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $226.34 |
Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $210.34 |
The following company description is from Reuters: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/pypl/profile?p=pypl
PayPal Holdings, Inc. operates as a technology platform and digital payments company that enables digital and mobile payments on behalf of consumers and merchants worldwide. Its payment solutions include PayPal, PayPal Credit, Braintree, Venmo, Xoom, and iZettle products. The company’s payments platform allows consumers to send and receive payments, withdraw funds to their bank accounts, and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in various currencies. It also offers gateway services that enable merchants to accept payments online with credit or debit cards, as well as digital wallets. PayPal Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
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.
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How was this analysis of Paypal Holdings Inc calculated?
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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: $161.22
- Growth: 0.2
- Current EPS (TTM): $1.771101
- P/E: 76.8654344902666
- Future EPS Calc: $4.4
- Future Stock Price Calc: $338.75
- Target stock price: $210.33
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