PayPal Holdings Inc. (PYPL)

PYPL · Financials · United States United States

PayPal Holdings Inc. (PYPL) is a company in the Financials sector, based in United States. The stock is held in 23 ETFs we track – with its largest weight of 0.57 % in XUFI (msci-usa-financials). Anyone holding one of these ETFs also owns a small indirect stake in PayPal Holdings.

Very high ETF coverage: 23 of the 95 ETFs we cover hold PayPal Holdings, spread across 11 indices. That puts the stock in more ETFs than 90.2 % of the 4,334 stocks we cover.

Held in23 ETFs
Highest weight0.57 %
Indices11
SectorFinancials
CountryUnited States
ISINUS70450Y1038
WKNA14R7U

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About PayPal Holdings

PayPal Holdings operates digital payment services: the PayPal wallet for online shopping, the peer-to-peer app Venmo, used mainly in the US, and Braintree, which processes card payments for large merchants. The company earns fees on the payment volume it handles. PayPal belonged to eBay from 2002 until it became independent again in 2015 and is based in San Jose, California.

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Price chart

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Performance

Performance
Year to date-9.7 %1 year-21.2 %
1 month-12.8 %3 months+25.3 %
Calendar year 2025-31.6 %
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Measured in euros, PayPal Holdings returned -8.0 % year to date and -19.3 % over one year. The gap to the dollar figures above comes from the exchange rate alone: each daily price is converted at the ECB euro reference rate for the same day.

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Risk metrics

Max drawdown-57.4 %
Volatility p.a.40.2 %

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Below peak-42.6 %
Beta to S&P 5001.10
Correlation to S&P 5000.32

The close on Sep 16, 2026 was 42.6 % below the highest close since Aug 12, 2024, reached on Jan 17, 2025. Over the last 252 trading days, on days when the S&P 500 rose or fell 1 %, PayPal Holdings moved on average 1.10 % in the same direction. The correlation of 0.32 shows how reliable that average is: the broad market explained only a small share of the daily moves.

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Correlated with

The strongest co-movers on top, the most inverse below. Low or negative values improve portfolio diversification.

Correlated with
Instrumentr−1 … +1
Global Payments Inc.+0.48
AGLD+0.48
SKL+0.46
BlackRock Inc.+0.44
Block Inc. Class A+0.42
Corpay Inc.+0.40
USD/CAD-0.28
USD/CHF-0.26
Western Digital Corporation-0.24

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Key financials

Latest reported fiscal year (FY2025, period end 2025-12-31) as filed with the SEC.

Revenue33.2 bn $
Net income5.2 bn $
Diluted EPS5.41 $
Net margin15.8 %
Return on equity25.8 %
Equity ratio25.3 %
Revenue growth+4.3 %
Revenue and profit by fiscal year
Fiscal yearRevenueNet incomeMargin
FY202329.84.214.3 %
FY202431.84.113.0 %
FY202533.25.215.8 %

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Held in these ETFs

Held in these ETFs
ETFIndexWeightper €1,000 in the ETF
XUFI / XUFNmsci-usa-financials0.57 %€5.70
XDWFmsci-world-financials0.30 %€3.00
WFINmsci-world-financials0.30 %€3.00
EXXTnasdaq-1000.21 %€2.10
XNASnasdaq-1000.21 %€2.10
WVALmsci-world-value0.17 %€1.70
XDEQmsci-world-quality0.16 %€1.60
SPYL / SPY5sp5000.07 %€0.70
SPYI / SPSAmsci-acwi-imi0.07 %€0.70
SXR8sp5000.07 %€0.70
XD9U / XD9Dmsci-usa0.07 %€0.70
SWWDmsci-world0.06 %€0.60
SPPWmsci-world0.06 %€0.60
EUNLmsci-world0.05 %€0.50
IUSQmsci-acwi0.05 %€0.50
XDWD / XDWLmsci-world0.05 %€0.50
WIMImsci-world-imi0.04 %€0.40
SPYYmsci-acwi0.04 %€0.40

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The last column turns the weight into euros: this much of €1,000 invested in one of these funds is allocated to PayPal Holdings as of the fund's latest holdings list.

Weight in EUNL since 2019

Sep 30, 2019Sep 16, 2026

In EUNL, a fund tracking the MSCI World, PayPal Holdings had a weight of 0.27 % on Sep 30, 2019 and 0.05 % on Sep 16, 2026. Its share peaked at 0.56 % on Jun 30, 2021. The weight rises and falls with the stock's price relative to the other index members, and it also shifts when the index provider changes the composition.

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How much PayPal Holdings Inc. overlaps with other holdings in a portfolio is shown by the Portfolio X-Ray and the ETF overlap check.

Stocks with similar ETF exposure

Names that reach a portfolio through largely the same funds as PayPal Holdings — the figure counts the ETFs holding both.

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Key figures side by side

Key figures compared with stocks of similar ETF exposure
Stock1 yearVolatility p.a.Net marginRevenue growth
PayPal Holdings-21.2 %40.2 %15.8 %+4.3 %
Hartford Insurance Group+4.1 %20.8 %254.7 %+3.3 %
T. Rowe Price Group-1.2 %26.7 %28.5 %+3.1 %
Aflac Incorporated+8.5 %19.6 %21.2 %-9.3 %
Ameriprise Financial+11.3 %27.2 %18.8 %+5.5 %
BlackRock-7.3 %26.7 %22.9 %+18.7 %
Blackstone-32.8 %37.0 %20.9 %+9.2 %
Charles Schwab Corp+15.5 %25.6 %+22.0 %
Arch Capital Group+11.0 %24.1 %22.1 %+14.3 %

Return and volatility from our daily closing prices in US dollars; margin and growth from the latest SEC annual filing. Fiscal years do not all end on the same date.

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