PayPal Earnings Reveal Potential Undervaluation

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Earnings Reveal Potential Undervaluation

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  just announced its earnings for the second quarter of 2024, and all the figures suggest healthy growth within the business.
• Management is so confident in the company’s future prospects that it is looking to allocate up to $10.1 billion in 24 months to buy back stock.
• Wall Street agrees with the bullish view, pushing a double-digit upside on
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  stock.

When investors think of stocks worthy of a second look or even a percentage allocation of their hard-earned capital, the technology sector and its run for artificial intelligence growth might come to mind first.

However, not all stocks in the sector are equal. While most have outperformed, a few names still need to catch up.

Among these is

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Holdings (NASDAQ:), the online payment platform whose stock price can’t catch a break. Investors can zoom out over the past 12 months of price action and notice two things.

The first is that

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stock underperformed the broader during a year when technology stocks supposedly carried all the momentum.

The second thing is that

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stock has been relatively flat for most of the year, even though the company’s financials demonstrate growth. This suggests that the stock is on the cheaper end of the spectrum.

With the second quarter 2024 results out for

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investors and analysts to digest, it may have proven just how cheap it might be right now.

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’s Growth Drivers Are Stepping on the Gas

Digging into

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’s quarterly earnings presentation will reveal more to investors than well-organized slides and corporate lingo. It will also reveal all of the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that investors look for when justifying their projections and forecasts for the future.

In the case of

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’s business model, there are a few to watch out for. First, investors need to cover the common ground of any business: the top and bottom lines (revenue and net income).

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’s revenue jumped 9% over the year, mainly driven by Total Payment Volume (TPV).

Because of better margins, an adequate budget, and cost controls,

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could pass on more from each ***** to operating and net income. Operating income grew by 17% over the year, achieving a margin of 18.2%, thanks to these practical management efforts.

All told,

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reported Earnings Per Share (EPS) of $0.83, or 18.5% above last year’s EPS. Now, why is EPS growing faster than operating income? The answer is what everyone is looking for when wondering whether a stock is trading at cheap valuations.

This is so because the payment volume grew due to a 13% growth in transactions per account and an 11% increase in the number of transactions per account, and management now has a better idea of what to expect from

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’s financials in the future.

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Why the Forecast for

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Stock is Brighter Than Ever

Using management guidance as a benchmark, investors can expect mid-to-high single-digit growth in EPS and approximately $5 billion in free cash flow (operating cash flow ****** capital expenditures).

This confidence allowed management to allocate up to $1.5 billion into a share buyback program for the quarter, taking as many as 62 million shares off the market. Knowing what ***** ahead for

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stock, management expressed in its guidance that it will match the $5 billion in expected free cash flow to the buyback program.

Over the past 12 months, management has allocated up to $5.1 billion into share buybacks, taking out as much as 5% of the outstanding existing shares. Adding the $5 billion for the end of 2024 would equate to 10% of shares being taken out and roughly 16.4% of the company’s market capitalization.

For investors questioning whether the stock is undervalued, management’s decision to allocate $10.1 billion over 24 months for stock buybacks suggests they see it as attractively priced, not overvalued.

But they aren’t the only ones in the market who believe this. Wall Street analysts align with management’s EPS growth forecast, as today’s consensus projection is 9.9% growth for the next 12 months. This acceptance helped Monness Crespi & Hardt slap a valuation of $88 a share on

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stock, daring it to rally by 49.4% from where it trades today.

While this price target may seem bold, it aligns with the $90 share price target Mizuho Financial Group analysts placed nearly three months ago. As optimistic as this may seem, traders are also accepting

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stock’s fate.

Short interest declined by 4.8% over the past month for

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, a signal of capitulation from bearish traders now realizing that all drivers showcased growth within the company.

More than that, now that the Federal Reserve promises to cut interest rates by the end of 2024, the financial sector will potentially outperform. The leading Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSE:) will lead the way, and

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’s competitors, Mastercard (NYSE:) or Visa (NYSE:), will match the momentum.

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