PayPal posted fourth-quarter net income of $921 million, or 81 cents a share, up from $801 million, or 68 cents a share, in the year-earlier period. After adjustments, $PYPL earned $1.24 a share, whereas analysts were expecting $1.20 a share.
PayPal Holdings Inc.’s cost-savings story continued in the holiday quarter, as the digital-payments company topped profit expectations for the period. It also disclosed that its chief executive plans to step down from that role at the end of the year.
PayPal’s revenue for the fourth quarter rose to $7.38 billion, up from $6.92 billion a year before, and in line with the FactSet consensus, which was for $7.39 billion. The company generated $357.4 billion in total payment volume, or the value of transactions processed on its platform. Analysts tracked by FactSet were anticipating $360.3 billion.
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