PayPal Holdings, Inc. PYPL
What this company does
Written from the business description in PayPal Holdings, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 3 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.
Revenue compounded at +9.1% a year over five years — but profit grew slower: net income at +4.5%, earnings per share at +8.9%.
The share count fell from 1.17B to 0.92B — the buyback concentrates the same profit into fewer slices.
Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.
Each USD of equity produced 26 cents of profit this year.
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue $B | 33.2 | 31.8 | 29.8 | 27.5 | 25.4 | 21.5 | 17.8 | 15.5 | 13.1 | 10.8 | 9.2 | 8.0 | 6.7 |
| Operating income $B | 6.1 | 5.3 | 5.0 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 3.3 | 2.7 | 2.2 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 1.1 |
| EBITDA $B | 7.0 | 6.4 | 6.1 | 5.2 | 5.5 | 4.5 | 3.6 | 3.0 | 2.9 | 2.3 | 2.1 | 1.8 | 1.5 |
| Income tax $B | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0.9 | −0.1 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 0.1 |
| Net income $B | 5.2 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 2.4 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 2.5 | 2.1 | 1.8 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 1.0 |
| Free cash flow $B | 5.6 | 6.8 | 4.2 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 5.4 | 3.4 | 4.7 | 1.9 | 2.5 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 1.6 |
| EPS, diluted $ | 5.41 | 3.99 | 3.84 | 2.09 | 3.52 | 3.54 | 2.07 | 1.71 | 1.47 | 1.15 | 1.00 | 0.34 | 0.78 |
| Dividend / sh $ | 0.14 | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Payout % | 2 | 0 | 0 | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| ROE % | 25.7 | 20.0 | 20.5 | 11.5 | 20.0 | 22.8 | 15.2 | 13.1 | 11.7 | 9.8 | 11.2 | 5.4 | 12.9 |
| Shares out B | 0.92 | 0.99 | 1.07 | 1.14 | 1.17 | 1.17 | 1.17 | 1.17 | 1.20 | 1.21 | 1.22 | 1.22 | · |
Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.
This company against its peers
Reconciled in 13 of 19 fiscal years. 26 checks could not be computed.