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.

Revenue
+1.98%
EPS
−3.53%
Free cash flow
−16.6%
Total debt
+19.5%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

58.93 0.03 −0.05%
Market cap
$49.0B
P/E
11.2×
Fwd P/E
11.2×
Dividend yield
0.95%
F-score
8/9
Altman Z
n/a
Beneish M
n/a
Dividend safety
n/a

PayPal Holdings, Inc. (PYPL) Operating margin

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PayPal Holdings, Inc.'s operating margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 17.0%, down 1.3 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (18.3%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 13.9% (fiscal 2022) to 18.3% (fiscal 2025) — the current reading is the highest in ten years. That is above the Credit Services industry median of 0.34% and above the Financial sector median of 0.00%.

Operating margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
FY2025 18.3% 1.53
FY2024 16.8% (0.14)
FY2023 16.9% 2.95
FY2022 13.9% (2.86)
FY2021 16.8% 1.47
FY2020 15.3% 0.03
FY2019 15.3% 1.10
FY2018 14.2% (2.04)
FY2017 16.2% 1.61
FY2016 14.6% (1.17)

Quarterly newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
Sep 2026 16.3% (0.11)
Jun 2026 16.4% (1.37)
Mar 2026 17.8% 0.39
Dec 2025 17.4% (0.64)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 13.9% High 18.3%
Ten-year median 15.8%
Current reading's percentile 74

Operating margin against peers

Company Operating margin
PYPL PayPal Holdings, Inc. 17.0%
FCFS FirstCash Holdings, Inc. compare 15.9%
AFRM Affirm Holdings, Inc. compare 11.8%
SOFI SoFi Technologies, Inc. compare 0.00%
COF Capital One Financial Corporation compare 0.00%
AXP American Express Company compare 0.00%
SYF Synchrony Financial compare 0.00%
ALLY Ally Financial Inc. compare 0.00%
KLAR Klarna Group plc compare −1.21%
Credit Services industry median 0.34%
Financial sector median 0.00%
Market median 0.00%

What Operating margin is

EBIT Margin tells an investor how much operating profit, before interest and taxes, a company keeps from each unit of revenue.

EBIT ÷ Revenue

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