Digital payments platform PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) fell short of the markets revenue expectations in Q4 CY2025 as sales rose 3.7% year on year to $8.68 billion. Its non-GAAP profit of $1.23 per share was 4.5% below analysts’ consensus estimates.
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PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:PYPL) stock plunged more than 20% Tuesday, following a triple threat of bad news: a surprise CEO shake-up, an earnings miss and a weak outlook
Despite strength in defensive sectors and select earnings winners, a deepening selloff in enterprise software stocks and a sharp decline in PayPal Holdings Inc. weighed heavily on sentiment.
Shares of digital payments platform PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) fell 19.8% in the afternoon session after the company reported fourth-quarter 2025 results that missed Wall Street's expectations for both revenue and earnings. The digital payments company posted revenue of $8.68 billion, a 3.7% increase year on year, but this fell short of analyst estimates of $8.78 billion. Its adjusted earnings per share of $1.23 also missed the consensus forecast of $1.29. While PayPal's pre-tax profit margin improved by 1.9 percentage points from the same quarter last year to 18.8%, the top- and bottom-line misses overshadowed this improvement. The report was broadly seen as weak, with the company failing to meet investor expectations and struggling to show strong momentum, leading to a significant sell-off in the stock.
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