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NASDAQ NMS - GLOBAL MARKET · Financial Services · CIK 0001633917
$57.53
+0.59% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 22, 2026
$52.93B market value
From PayPal Holdings, Inc.'s FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 3, 2026 · read the filing
PayPal provides business support services. It took in $33.17B last year, which makes it a large company. Of every dollar it sells, about 16 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by profitability and debt, with growth worth watching.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Financial health
Strong finances across the board.
From PayPal Holdings, Inc.'s FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Dividends paid
$0.00 → $130.0M
Profit
$4.15B → $5.23B
Free cash flow
$6.77B → $5.56B
Earnings per share
$4.18 → $5.69
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 3, 2026
Changed: turned positive
$0.00 to $130.0MCritical
Why it matters: Cash handed to shareholders. A rise can be a higher dividend or simply more shares, and a cut is a decision the company explains in its own filing — neither is rated here.
Improved: +26.2%
$4.15B to $5.23BSignificant
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
How the latest move compares (quote delayed ~15 min), and what was published around it
PYPL rose 0.59% on the latest quote. The S&P 500 moved −1.04%. That is 1.6 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
The growth rate someone buying today is paying for, against what the company has delivered
At today's price, the market is paying for free cash flow to shrink by about 4% a year for the next 10 years. Over the last 10 years it grew by about 12% a year.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 16 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $5.23B last year.
Slowly. Sales grew 4.3% last year.
No. Its borrowings would take under a year of cash flow to clear. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.34 in assets.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 2 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 2% of the cash its operations generated.
GoodNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $5.23B and generated $6.42B of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Feb 3, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 3, 2026Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 3, 2026Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 8, 2024Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 10, 2023Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $33.17B | $31.80B | $29.77B | $27.52B | $25.37B | +4.3% |
| Selling, general and administrative | $1.98B | $2.15B | $2.06B | $2.10B | $2.11B | −7.8% |
| Operating income | $6.07B | $5.33B | $5.03B | $3.84B | $4.26B | +13.9% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 18.3% | 16.7% | 16.9% | 13.9% | 16.8% | +1.5 pts |
| Interest expense | $441.0M | $382.0M | $347.0M | $304.0M | $232.0M | +15.4% |
| Income before tax | — | — | — | $3.37B | $4.10B | — |
| Net income | $5.23B | $4.15B | $4.25B | $2.42B | $4.17B | +26.2% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 15.8% | 13.0% | 14.3% | 8.8% | 16.4% | +2.7 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $5.69 | $4.18 | $3.96 | $2.13 | $3.57 | +36.2% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PYPLPayPal Holdings, Inc. · this page | 8.7/10 | 8/8 |
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Exercised stock options — 5,900 shares
Holds 71,661 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 2,622 shares
Holds 74,283 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Quarterly report on Form 10-Q
Read the filingPublished results
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 15 subsidiaries named in its 10-K, incorporated across 9 places. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from PYPL's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 3, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 8 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 8.7 | 8/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 3, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 8.7 | 5/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 4, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 8.7 | 8/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 8, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 7.3 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 10, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 10.0 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 3, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 10.0 | 5/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 5, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
8 of 8 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's. One could not be evaluated and is excluded from the total rather than counted as a failure.
3.27
In the safe zone
For this model, above 2.6 is safe and below 1.1 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Deteriorated: -17.8%
$6.77B to $5.56BSignificant
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Improved: +36.2%
$4.18 to $5.69Significant
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +20.8%
$6.66B to $8.05BSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: -7.4%
993.0M to 920.0MSignificant
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Changed: +24.7%
$683.0M to $852.0MSignificant
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Improved: +13.9%
$5.33B to $6.07BNotable
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +1.5 pts
16.7% to 18.3%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Improved: +2.7 pts
13.0% to 15.8%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Q1 FY2026 against Q1 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed May 5, 2026 — read it.
Changed: turned positive
$0.00 to $130.0MCritical
Why it matters: Cash handed to shareholders. A rise can be a higher dividend or simply more shares, and a cut is a decision the company explains in its own filing — neither is rated here.
Deteriorated: −3.2 pts
16.5% to 13.3%Significant
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: -17.6%
$11.42B to $9.41BSignificant
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Improved: -8.9%
979.0M to 892.0MSignificant
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Changed: +17.9%
$196.0M to $231.0MSignificant
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Improved: +7.2%
$7.79B to $8.35BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Deteriorated: -13.5%
$1.29B to $1.11BNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: −1.8 pts
19.6% to 17.8%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: -6.3%
$964.0M to $903.0MNotable
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Deteriorated: -5.1%
$1.31 to $1.25Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Deteriorated: -7.8%
$7.57B to $6.98BNotable
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
2 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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Discounted at 8%–10% a year, with growth settling to 2.5% after 10 years. Those rates are ordinary choices, not measurements: across that range the assumed growth works out between -6% and -2%. This describes what the price implies — it is not a forecast, and not a view on whether the price is right.
Opinions from 51 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 51 analysts publishing on this company, 4 say strong buy, 10 say buy, 34 say hold and 3 say sell. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 3.3% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
The trailing P/E is 10.8x — investors pay $10.8 for each $1 of trailing profit.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
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Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 3,883 shares at $56.10 ($217.8K)
Holds 70,400 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 1,639 shares
Holds 43,206 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 907 shares at $56.10 ($50.9K)
Holds 42,299 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 2,727 shares
Holds 5,127 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 1,291 shares at $56.10 ($72.4K)
Holds 3,836 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 9,094 shares
Holds 89,627 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 2,910 shares
Holds 92,537 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 6,129 shares at $54.03 ($331.1K)
Holds 86,408 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 2,427 shares at $54.68 ($132.7K)
Holds 43,752 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 1,000 shares at $55.74 ($55.7K)
Holds 42,752 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 1,185 shares at $56.71 ($67.2K)
Holds 41,567 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 1,100 shares at $54.53 ($60.0K)
Holds 33,262 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 995 shares at $55.79 ($55.5K)
Holds 32,267 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 1,284 shares at $56.69 ($72.8K)
Holds 30,983 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 552 shares at $54.80 ($30.2K)
Holds 2,400 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 4,602 shares
Holds 67,858 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 2,097 shares at $52.66 ($110.4K)
Holds 65,761 shares after this filing.
Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
Filed notice to sell 552 shares ($30.2K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Units.
Filed notice to sell 4,612 shares ($252.1K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Units.
Filed notice to sell 3,379 shares ($184.7K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Units.
Filed notice to sell 4,162 shares ($251.7K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Units.
Filed notice to sell 1,337 shares ($78.0K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Units.
Filed notice to sell 732 shares ($42.7K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Units.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Had a director or senior officer leave or join · Held a shareholder vote
Reported another event
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Revenue +7.2% · Operating margin −1.8 pts · Dividends paid turned positive — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Operating margin +1.5 pts · Dividends paid turned positive · Profit +26.2% — against FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation · Reported another event
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Revenue +7.3% · Profit margin +2.0 pts · Profit +23.6% — against Q3 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2025
Revenue +5.1% · Operating margin +1.3 pts · Earnings per share +20.2% — against Q2 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Held a shareholder vote
Read the filingSource: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-02-03. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
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