How is PayPal (PYPL) doing?

PayPal is a company in the financial, credit services industry, based in San Jose, CA, worth $47.5B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.

Updated Oct 9, 2026

P3 score

Weak

PayPal shares are down 27% over the past year, 37 points behind the S&P 500. Its type is Falling Knife. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 10th percentile on market beat, the 1st on staying power and the 29th on business growth. It appears on 4 of our dashboards.

$55.53−27% in a yearWorth $47.5B

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Past year

The past year

Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.

PYPL against the S&P 500, past year

$100 a year ago. PayPal −27%, the S&P 500 +16%.

PYPLS&P 500

What kind of stock is it?

Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.

Falling Knife

LaggingErraticSlowingBought

Lagging erratically on a soft business, with buyers trying to catch it.

NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepNow

Falling Knife since Aug; Bottom Fished before that.

Also Falling Knife (55 in all): CDNS · ITW · MDT · IR · VLTO · WFC

EmbracedToppingAccumulatingRejectedStable rankBellwetherDistribution TopCoiled SpringWallflowerHolding rankFaith TradeRolling OverBottom FishedSleepy StapleUnsteady rankHot HandChurning WinnerTurning UpShow-Me GrowerBouncy rankSpeculative PopExhausted RallyFalling KnifeBroken Year

How is it doing against its group?

Its group is Payments & fintech, 10 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Card networks and payment processors.

PYPL, past year−27%8 of 10 in the group

Rest of the group−15%equal-weighted

S&P 500+16%past year

PayPal is −27% over the past year, against −15% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 8th of 10 in Payments & fintech.

PYPLRest of the group

Best in the groupCPAY Corpay+36%V Visa+10%WEX WEX+8%

Worst in the groupFISV Fiserv−64%FIS Fidelity National Information Services−50%EEFT Euronet Worldwide−25%

Its closest rivalsV Visa+10%MA Mastercard+2%GPN Global Payments−7%FISV Fiserv−64%FIS Fidelity National Information Services−50%

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How much does it move?

Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.

Calmer than usual PayPal typically moves 2.6% in a day, calmer than usual for it, and it swings more than 56% of large US stocks.

Typical day2.6%about $1.46 a share

Its usual3.3%calmer than usual, 0.8× its year’s average

Against the S&P 5003.0×the index’s typical day is 1.1%

Unusual day±5.2%twice its typical day

Deepest fall, past year−49%now 27% below its high

In the S&P’s down weeks144%of the index’s fall, three years; beta 1.1

Typical daily move (ATR)Its year’s average 3.29%

PYPL on our dashboards

Every question where PayPal appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with PYPL highlighted. Select a column to sort.

Question	Reading	Place	Details
Which stocks are cheaper than their rivals? Value	99Cheaper	6 of 60	P/E 10.5x · Rivals’ P/E 32.6x · Growth gap −10 pts
Who is buying back their own stock? Dividends and buybacks	97Shrinking	17 of 60	Shares, 1Y −7.8% · Bought back $6.1B · % of value 12.2%
Which companies return the most cash to shareholders? Dividends and buybacks	98Generous	12 of 60	Total 13.2% · Dividends 1.0% · Buybacks 12.2%
Which stocks move with bitcoin? Funds and commodities	99Moves with bitcoin	4 of 4	Sensitivity 0.27 · Correlation 0.31 · 3M +17%

Go deeper on Stox

PYPL’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.

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How to read this page

How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.

Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.

Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.

Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.

Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.

For financial statements, earnings and news, see PYPL’s full profile on Stox.

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