PayPal Posts Q3 EPS of $1.25
PYPL sits 37% above its 52-week low of $38.46.
Summary
PayPal reported third-quarter adjusted earnings per share of $1.45, alongside a GAAP figure of $1.25 per Dow Jones Newswires. The print lands with the stock at $52.52, well below the $60.50 per share that Stripe and Advent offered before walking away from their $53 billion bid in late August. New CEO Enrique Lores is running a turnaround after that deal collapsed, and this is the first quarterly EPS figure since he took over. The quarter showed free cash flow of $1.4B and adjusted free cash flow of $2.05B, while transaction margin dollars grew 2% to $3.95B. PayPal returned $1.5B to stockholders by repurchasing about 28M common shares in the quarter, and said it was pleased with the performance and momentum across the business, raising full-year adjusted guidance for transaction margin dollars and EPS. It now sees FY26 non-GAAP EPS of about $5.60, up from about $5.38, and set 4Q26 non-GAAP EPS guidance at about $1.43, an outlook that follows the raised profit view issued with Q2 in July.
Updated with an SEC 8-K filing · What changed
Updates
· SEC 8-K — PayPal raised FY26 non-GAAP EPS guidance to ~$5.60 from ~$5.38 and set 4Q26 non-GAAP EPS guidance at ~$1.43.
At the time of this announcement, PYPL was trading at $52.52 on NASDAQ in the Finance sector, with a market capitalization of approximately $47B. The 52-week trading range was $38.46 to $79.22. This news item was assessed with positive market sentiment and an importance score of 7 out of 10. Source: Dow Jones Newswires.