www.reuters.com/business/finance/stripe-advent-offer-buy-paypal-more-than-53-billion-sources-say-2026-07-15/
@b5 Paypal's market cap is lower than 53B and has been lower until the announcement. Yes fiserv and paypal are stinking piles of legacy garbage worth pennies on the dollar. The yahoos of payments.
@b5 Paypal is a diminishing legacy service.. only thing worth with paypal is " it's brand recognition through out the world " .. There are better P2P services coming up with new tech and AI.. Not sure Why Stripe wants to give $53B to acquire PayPal..
What a PayPal buyout might mean for Fiserv
Why? Just take a look at the numbers.
PayPal and Fiserv aren't direct competitors, with PayPal being a more consumer-facing financial services company (B2C) facilitating payments among peers, while Fiserv operates more on the back end, running the plumbing of financial transactions and processing payments among businesses (B2B). That said, the industry is the same, and the valuations are similar -- and Fiserv looks like an even more attractive takeover target than PayPal.
At today's share price, PayPal stock costs only 8.9 times trailing (and forward) earnings. Fiserv is cheaper at just 8.4x trailing earnings, and a mere 6.2x forward earnings. According to analysts polled by S&P Global Market Intelligence, both companies have similar projected growth rates of 5.8% over the next five years.
Long story short, if Stripe and Advent think PayPal's a buy at 8.9x earnings, there's every reason to believe they, or someone else, may soon reach the same conclusion about Fiserv -- and offer to buy it, too.
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/why-fiserv-stock-just-popped-153853078.html
@b8 why is it under bid? Seems by like a 28% premium is a good offer, no?
I can see why it was under bid. As an early PayPal user myself but I haven’t been using PayPal nearly as much I used to. I’ve completely switched to Apple Pay. Dealing with PayPal customer service is a nightmare. The competitive squeeze is real and part of why PayPal’s market cap fell sharply from $360 billion in 2021 to $36 billion this year.
@av because OP needs attention. General theme for these people
Keep replying to these poor attention seekers it doesn’t cost you anything but will make them happy
That offer is an insult to PayPal and the Fintech industry as a whole. If PayPal is worth $53B then Fiserv is worth less than $35B. There is no way that PayPal gets sold that cheap but I would be offended if I worked at PayPal.
This is irrelevant..why post this?