PayPal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: PYPL) Gains 0.47% And Its 2.83% Stock Volatility Is Bewildering

PayPal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) does about 15.12M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 9217939 shares change hands in Tuesday’s trading. The company now has a market cap of 68.96B USD. Its current market price is $65.92, marking an increase of 0.47% compared to the previous close of $65.61. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $76.54 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $50.25.

PayPal Holdings Inc (PYPL) has a 20-day trading average at $64.93 and the current price is -13.88% off the 52-week high compared with 31.18% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $63.79 and its 200-day simple moving average is $61.09. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 2.83%, which decreases to 2.60% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 54.12 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $74.61, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 11.65% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on April 29, 2024 when Monness Crespi & Hardt reiterated the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of between $80 and $88. Daiwa Securities downgraded the stock to “Neutral” from Outperform on February 13, 2024 at a price target of $64-$62. DZ Bank downgraded its price target at $60.

PayPal Holdings Inc (PYPL) stock is down -2.94% over the week and -0.63% over the past month. Its price is 7.34% year-to-date and -12.07% over the past year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 11.65 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of 14.04% and return on equity of 21.40%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 16.59 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 14.30. The beta has a value of 1.45. Price to book ratio is 3.35 and price to sales ratio is 2.27.