PayPal Q1 2023 Stock Earnings Preview: Can PYPL Beat Expectations?
By:Mike Butler
When does PayPal report is Q1 2023 earnings?
PayPal reports quarterly earnings on May 8th after the market closes, and the company is looking to continue strong earnings-per-share (EPS) growth.
PYPL stock is expected to report an earnings per share of $1.10, on $6.99 billion in revenue
The payment processing company has become a focal point of the online checkout system across the board in the past few years, with new buy now pay later features innovating how customers can pay for products and services. Venmo has become extremely popular as well, which PayPal has owned since 2013.
PYPL stock has not performed as well as other tech companies, after peaking in February and dropping to the $75 per share range for the last few months. PYPL is up $2 from the start of the year, currently trading at $75.63 after opening 2023 at $73.69.
Looking at the implied volatility and expected move in the options market, we can see that PYPL is projected to have an expected move of +-$5.37 through the rest of this week.
This makes up about 70% of the stocks expected move through the next 39 days, which is a very large chunk.
Looking even further, we can see that the weekly expected move also makes up about 50% of the expected move through July. We could see some fireworks after earnings are reported on May 8th.
Tune in to see how PYPL stock moves at 3:25pm CST, which is the expected time of the earnings release.
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