Earnings Preview For PayPal

On Wednesday, PayPal Holdings, Inc. - Common Stock PYPL will release its latest earnings report. Benzinga's report can help you figure out the ins and outs of the earnings release.

Earnings and Revenue

Analysts expect PayPal earnings of 52 cents per share. Revenue will likely be around $3.6 billion, according to the consensus estimate.

PayPal earnings in the same period a year ago were 42 cents per share. Quarterly sales came in at $2 billion. The current analyst consensus estimate would represent a 20 percent increase in the company's earnings. Revenue would be up 21.77 percent from the year-ago period.

Here's how the company's EPS has stacked up against analyst estimates in the past:

Q4 EPS Estimate: 52 cents per share
Q4 Revenues Estimate: $3 billion

Stock Performance

Shares of PayPal were trading at $84.31 as of Jan. 31. Over the last 52-week period, shares are up 109.36 percent. Given that these returns are generally positive, long-term shareholders are probably content going into this earnings release.

Analyst estimates have adjusted higher for EPS and revenues over the past 90 days. Analysts have been rating PayPal stock as Neutral. The strength of this rating has risen over the past three months.

Conference Call

PayPal's Q4 is scheduled to hold a conference call at 8:00 a.m. ET and it can be accessed here: https://www.paypal.com/bd/home