Speaker 1: Pay Paul Holdings has traded recently at a price near
Speaker 1: sixty nine United States dollars per share, with a market
Speaker 1: capitalization above sixty six billion United States dollars. Today's trading
Speaker 1: session shows volume notably close to the average, has more
Speaker 1: than twelve million shares changed hands. In this year's range,
Speaker 1: the stock has moved between a low of fifty five
Speaker 1: United States dollars and a high of over ninety three
Speaker 1: United States dollars, reflecting a wide span of investor sentiment
Speaker 1: through the past twelve months. Analysts have published fresh updates
Speaker 1: this week. Morning Star Investment Management and morth Rock Partners
Speaker 1: have both increased positions, indicating some institutional confidence. However, analyst's
Speaker 1: sentiment is largely split. The consensus target is about eighty
Speaker 1: three United States dollars per share, with roughly half of
Speaker 1: the covering analysts recommending to hold, sixteen suggesting to buy,
Speaker 1: and three advising to sell. Most noteworthy is a downgrade
Speaker 1: from the Goldman Sax Group to strong sell, with their
Speaker 1: price objectives slipped to seventy United States dollars, while Barclay's
Speaker 1: remains overweight and Canichord Genetity maintains a buy rating with
Speaker 1: a ninety six dollars target. Recent earnings released at the
Speaker 1: end of July showed PayPal beating expectations, reporting one dollar
Speaker 1: and forty cents earnings per share compared to the consensus
Speaker 1: estimate of one dollar and thirty cents. Revenues landed at
Speaker 1: eight point two nine billion United States dollars. A head
Speaker 1: of forecasts, PayPal has guided toward third quarter earnings per
Speaker 1: share between one dollar and eighteen cents and one dollar
Speaker 1: and twenty two cents, and fiscal full year guidance bracketed
Speaker 1: between five dollars and fifteen cents and five dollars and
Speaker 1: thirty cents per head share. The company posted healthy margins
Speaker 1: just under fifteen percent and an impressive return on equity
Speaker 1: of twenty five percent during the last quarter. Insiders have
Speaker 1: sold a combined total of over fifteen thousand shares in
Speaker 1: the last ninety days, representing a very small fraction of
Speaker 1: total ownership but worth over one million United States dollars.
Speaker 1: Recent technical signals downgraded the stock's buy outlook to neutral,
Speaker 1: as upward momentum begins to flatten and volume divergence may
Speaker 1: signal upcoming changes in sector news. PayPal recently faced some
Speaker 1: head winds in Europe after German banks blocked payments, causing
Speaker 1: some shares to slide. The longer term forecasts anticipate the
Speaker 1: possibility of a rebound over the coming quarters. Looking ahead,
Speaker 1: most consensus estimates suggest PayPal shares could trade between seventy
Speaker 1: and eighty five United States dollars in the near term,
Speaker 1: with select forecasts envisioning further gains next year if the
Speaker 1: company sustains earning's growth and adapts to evolving regulatory and
Speaker 1: competitive pressures around digital payments.