From a horizontal accumulation phase, the timing seems good to buy shares in PayPal Holdings and to get ahead of a break-out on the upside of the congestion area.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.
Strengths
● Its core activity has a significant growth potential and sales are expected to surge, according to Thomson Reuters' forecast. Indeed, those may increase by 60% by 2020.
● Margins returned by the company are among the highest on the stock exchange list. Its core activity clears big profits.
● Thanks to a sound financial situation, the firm has significant leeway for investment.
● Analysts have a positive opinion on this stock. Average consensus recommends overweighting or purchasing the stock.
● Within the weekly time frame the stock shows a bullish technical configuration above the support level at 72.91 USD
Weaknesses
● The share is close to its long-term resistance in weekly data. Therefore, the potential should be limited. However, a further bullish movement when crossing this resistance will be a positive signal.
● The stock is close to a major daily resistance at USD 85.45, which should be gotten rid of so as to gain new appreciation potential.
● The company's "enterprise value to sales" ratio is among the highest in the world.
● The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 47.74 times its estimated earnings per share for the ongoing year.
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PayPal Holdings, Inc. is one of the main global providers of online payment services. The company enables individuals and professionals to purchase and to sell goods and services, as well as make transfers and withdrawals. Paypal Holdings operates a technology platform equipped with solutions (Paypal, PayPal Credit, Venmo and Braintree brands) designed to facilitate safeguarded payments via merchant websites, mobile payment devices, and through shops. Net sales break down by source of revenue as follows:
- revenues from transactions (90.2%);
- revenues from value-added services (9.8%).
At the end of 2023, PayPal Holdings, Inc. has 426 million active accounts.
The United States accounts for 58% of net sales.