New alliances are lifting PayPal

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PAYPAL HOLDINGS INC. $77 is a buy, but only for highly aggressive investors. The company (Nasdaq symbol PYPL; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 1.05 billion; Market cap: $80.9 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.7; No dividends paid; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.paypal.com) processes online transactions on millions of websites, including purchases made on the sites of its former parent company eBay Inc. (Nasdaq symbol EBAY). Online retail giant Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq symbol AMZN) now lets its U.S. customers pay for their purchases using their PayPal accounts. As well, U.S. customers can now use their PayPal accounts for transactions through e-commerce platform provider Shopify Inc. (Toronto symbol SHOP). Note—Amazon and Shopify are recommendations of Power Growth Investor, our newsletter that focuses on aggressive investments. Thanks to deals like these, PayPal’s shares are up over 25% this year. The stock now trades at a reasonable 17.5 times the company’s projected 2024 earnings of $4.41 a share. PayPal is a buy for aggressive investors. investors. …