PayPal Holdings (PYPL) reported mixed third-quarter fiscal results arsenic net topped views, but gross and full outgo measurement missed estimates. PayPal banal fell amid its net telephone with analysts and worries implicit its acquisition strategy.
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San Jose, Calif.-based PayPal reported net precocious Monday. PYPL banal fell 5.3% to 217.50 successful extended trading connected the stock marketplace today.
In Monday's regular session, PayPal banal roseate 1.6%. Shares person been pressured amid reports it could acquire Pinterest (PINS).
PayPal announced a caller Venmo-related payments woody with Amazon.com (AMZN). Venmo is PayPal's person-to-person outgo service. Venmo has expanded into caller areas arsenic PayPal aims to turn gross from its idiosyncratic base.
PayPal net for the 4th ended Sept. 30 came successful astatine $1.11 per share, up 4% from a twelvemonth earlier. The institution said gross roseate 13% to $6.18 billion, including the acquisition of Honey Science.
Analysts expected PayPal net of $1.07 a stock connected gross of $6.23 billion. A twelvemonth earlier, PayPal earned $1.07 a stock connected income of $5.46 billion.
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Total outgo measurement processed from merchant customers climbed 26% to $310 billion. Analysts had projected full outgo measurement of $312.7 billion.
PayPal said it added 13.3 cardinal nett caller progressive accounts worldwide successful the September quarter. The integer outgo institution had 416 cardinal progressive accounts worldwide arsenic of Sept. 30.
For the existent 4th ending successful December, PayPal forecast net per stock of $1.12, up 4% from a twelvemonth earlier, beneath estimates of $1.27.
PayPal banal has pulled backmost astir 22% from an all-time precocious of 310.16 connected July 26.
Low Relative Strength Rating
PayPal banal holds a Relative Strength Rating of lone 15 retired of a best-possible 99, according to IBD Stock Checkup.
Former genitor eBay (EBAY), which spun disconnected PayPal successful 2015, is shifting its outgo processing from PayPal to Netherlands-based Adyen.
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