PayPal Holdings, Inc. offers a technology platform that enables digital payments and simplifies commerce experiences on behalf of merchants and consumers worldwide. Its payment solutions enable its customers to connect, transact, and send and receive payments, whether they are online or in person. It provides payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on its platform on behalf of its customers. It operates a global, two-sided network at scale that connects merchants and consumers with 426 million active accounts across 200 markets. Its brands include PayPal, Braintree, Venmo, Xoom, Hyperwallet, PayPal Zettle, PayPal Honey, and Paidy. We show 40 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our PYPL shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute PYPL market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing PYPL market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing PYPL's market cap history versus its peers.
Many "beginner" or "novice" investors will look at one stock trading at a price of $10 per share and another trading at
a price of $20 per share and think the latter company is worth twice as much. Of course, that is a completely meaningless comparison without also knowing how many shares outstanding there are for each of the two companies,
and then calculating their respective market caps. Comparing the share price of PYPL versus a peer is one thing; comparing
PYPL market cap versus a peer is a completely different story.
Furthermore, via fluctuation both in per-share price and in the number of shares outstanding (via issuance of new shares over time, the repurchase of existing shares),
the market cap for a company like PYPL can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching PYPL by allowing them to research the PYPL market cap history. |
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