PayPal Holdings, Inc.

PYPL Financial Credit Services

PayPal Holdings, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $33.2 billion, up 4.32% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 4.75%, EPS fell 3.08%, free cash flow grew 157.7% and total debt rose 18.6%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100; revenue growth for ten consecutive years; insiders bought in the last twelve months.

56.70 0.46 −0.80%
Market cap
$48.9B
P/E
10.6×
Fwd P/E
8.1×
Dividend yield
0.99%
F-score
8/9
Altman Z
n/a
Beneish M
n/a
Dividend safety
n/a

PayPal Holdings, Inc. (PYPL) Free cash flow margin

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PayPal Holdings, Inc.'s free cash flow margin over the twelve months to 30 June 2026 was 19.4%, up 2.6 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (16.8%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 14.2% (fiscal 2017) to 30.2% (fiscal 2018); the current reading is higher than 27% of that period. That is above the Credit Services industry median of 12.9% and above the Financial sector median of 14.7%.

Free cash flow margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Free cash flow margin Change (points)
FY2025 16.8% (4.51)
FY2024 21.3% 6.96
FY2023 14.3% (4.25)
FY2022 18.6% (0.71)
FY2021 19.3% (6.22)
FY2020 25.5% 6.47
FY2019 19.0% (11.12)
FY2018 30.2% 15.92
FY2017 14.2% (8.72)
FY2016 23.0% 2.96

Against its own ten years

Low 14.2% High 30.2%
Ten-year median 19.3%
Current reading's percentile 27

Free cash flow margin against peers

Company Free cash flow margin
OMF OneMain Holdings, Inc. compare 50.7%
SYF Synchrony Financial compare 41.8%
COF Capital One Financial Corporation compare 37.7%
ALLY Ally Financial Inc. compare 28.8%
AFRM Affirm Holdings, Inc. compare 23.3%
PYPL PayPal Holdings, Inc. 19.4%
AXP American Express Company compare 17.9%
FCFS FirstCash Holdings, Inc. compare 12.9%
SOFI SoFi Technologies, Inc. compare −157.6%
Credit Services industry median 12.9%
Financial sector median 14.7%
Market median 0.00%

What Free cash flow margin is

Free Cash Flow Margin tells an investor how much of each sale turns into cash the company keeps after paying for investment in its assets.

(Operating Cash Flow + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) + Intangible Assets Change (Net)) ÷ Revenue

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