PayPal Holdings INC - Is This A BargainPayPal – 70% Decreased in its share price:
PayPal has begun moving downwards since Jul 16 2021 & has retraced 70% away from its all-time high. The decreased in PayPal’s share price fell further after the company released their earnings guidance and made comments to reduce their goal of new users and instead focus on sustainable growth and driving engagement. Analyst are saying the decreased in price is also due to PayPal’s user growth slowing due to higher inflation which may be leading to reduced consumer spending and the fact that ‘eBay’ (a PayPal customer) is in the process of having their own payment platform. However, eBay represented 3% of revenue and less than 3% of total payment value (TPV) in Q4-21. Some analyst are saying that PayPal’s price has fallen due to the 2020 Q4 profit figures being better than Q4 2021.Still, PayPal has ended Q4 with strong momentum and has shown annual increases in the following areas, to just list a few:
• Annual Revenue
• Profit
• Increase in Free Cash Flow
• Transaction Volume
• BNPL Transactions
• Unique Consumer Accounts
• Merchants with PayPal BNPL Transactions
• Merchants With Upstream Presentment
Conclusion – PayPal shows consistent increase in their financial returns year over year - based on their balance sheets/annual reports. Though the stock price has rapidly & drastically decreased in value due to short term projections of ‘slower’ growth – PayPal is still a great company which has not seen any major changes in their fundamentals or management team. The reduce in the company’s share price can be viewed as an opportunity for investors who are focused on the long-term opportunity and not bothered by the short-term headwinds which pose little threat to the company’s long-term success. PayPal is positioned extremely well within their industry which is filled with huge growth opportunities around where ecommerce and the digitization of payments are continuing to evolve and gain adoption. Despite the competition, PayPal appears very well positioned to evolve and growth and appears to have great value from an investment perspective.
The company, PayPal, its Directors and CEO (Frank, David & Dan) have all made significant purchases into company following its recent sell off.
PS - I did not do much research into PayPal competitors. Feel free to look into that area or comment if I should research it and update this post.
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