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Can you tell when I discovered options?
What kind of announcement from PayPal would justify me dumping money into it this morning
Puts on PYPL in prep for 1/25 announcement. Made enough to cover bills for the month.
Warren Buffett's New Secret Stock PYPL?
$PYPL Ad: Six innovations that will revolutionize commerce
Anyone have positions on $PYPL in anticipation of Jan 25 news
PYPL Crash- still room for 1/26 gains?
New Meme Stock On The Horizon!!! and more
Did I just make half a million by mistake?
Huge volume increase in PYPL $85 Call 1/26
It's been quite the six figure (several) ride down over the past year. No one tells you it gets faster as you get closer to zero. Inherited
Been quite the 6 figure (several) ride down this year. No one tells you it goes faster as you get closer to zero
Paypal rally after the CEO came on CNBC in a nutshell
PayPal: Substantially Undervalued - Market Fails to Recognize Growth Potential
We’ve seen your picks for 2024 stocks, what about which ones are going to be flat?
I'm back with another 6 figure YOLO with $PYPL
🔥 PayPal (PYPL) - The Comeback Play! 🔥
PayPal Stock PYPL 2 Targets Major WIN Ahead 1 Critical Barrier Broken for Stock Holders
2024 and the 1099-k. How will the market react to the tax on side hustle?
2024 and the 1099-k. How will the market react to the tax on side hustle?
If everybody is predicting a recession, why are payments companies absolutely booming?
At least this week was better. Still down huge on PYPL.
Sold puts on Tesla as it tanked below $200. Bought PYPL and PLTR calls before earnings. Bought SPY calls before Thursday’s rally
$PYPL LFG Paytards I didn't hear no bell
Why is $PYPL so hot amongst this sub atm?
Suggestions on how to recover losses if I am not selling my winners
When do you close 0DTE or 7DTE?
I’m down so bad the only logical thing to do was buy more $PYPL
Is there anything that makes PYPL attractive right now?
Thoughts on Higher Value Dividend Stocks that have been pushed down recently?
The overall market sucks…please allow discussion of penny stocks
Just turned 18 Buying my First Options Calls-Puts Ever
At least I’m not doing as badly as the “PYPL has a moat” guy.
US tax citizens, why do you like dividend paying stocks?
Exploring the Depths: PYPL and SQ Stocks nearing 52-week Lows – Is it time to dive in?
Exploring the Depths: PYPL and SQ Stocks Nearing 52-Week Lows – Is It Time to Dive In?"
I am about to make the bet of my life - Financial Freedom by 2025 or Nothing
Took out student loans and went all in on $TSLA $PYPL $PLTR $TRIP after finding out my swimmers are active by my wife pixie stick.
PYPL YOLO increased to $106k. Deep Value Edition
u regards think $PYPL is a good match for X ?
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2026 playbook: See a red candle in S&P buy a call and hold for a week or two, short PYPL when any green candle appears, load up on OTM TSLA calls when Steak\_Itchy complains again.
You should really just post the SPY YOLO rather than the PYPL """loss""" since you didn't even sell your PYPL yet. p.s. You sound like some crypto/tech/boomer passportbro. How do you just have +$300K to randomly throw into PYPL to begin with?
PYPL is a presently cursed stock
Just sell already so PYPL can pump
The only advantage Circle has is in international transactions. Much of their income comes from short term treasuries which are coming down in rates as fed is cutting. Risk reward favours sticking to Visa, MA and maybe PYPL.
Tossed another 10k into July Calls on VITL and 6k on Jan 2028s 32.5c on PYPL
CELH ELF PYPL The first two are obvious PayPal may take longer than a year but it's a ticking time bomb for a bull run.
My delta on PYPL is almost 3,000 now. What the fuck am I doing?
PYPL brother. Just over 50B but boy it’s hated and it’s a cash cow and doing incredible buybacks and a divi. Any growth gets it rerated from a 11PE to a 15PE and that’ll be after a year of growth from here and better top and bottom lines. Easily finds $100 in 18m if things go well and with the buybacks it’s almost impossible to lose too much. Basically the reward isn’t anything crazy, but the risk:reward ratio is bananas
AMZN is a solid pick but not exactly "hasn't taken off", here's the data: | Metric | AMZN | Context | |--------|------|---------| | Price | $240.93 | - | | % Above 52W Low | 13.8% | Already bounced from lows | | % Below 52W High | **5.1%** | Near all-time high | | P/E | 42.6x | Not cheap | | Revenue | $638B | Largest in this group | | Op Margin | 10.8% | AWS + retail combined | AMZN is 5% from its high - it HAS taken off. If you're looking for "hasn't taken off YET": **Actually Beaten-Down Names:** | Ticker | % Below High | P/E | What It Does | |--------|--------------|-----|--------------| | SQ | **42.2%** | 12.2x | Fintech/payments | | PYPL | **33.7%** | 14.8x | Payments/Venmo | | NFLX | **28.2%** | 44.7x | Streaming (at 52w low) | These are down 30-40% from highs vs AMZN at 5%. If "hasn't taken off" is your thesis, these fit better.
Fair point, but the data shows stock-picking CAN work if you're systematic: **"Beaten down + growth" screen today:** | Ticker | % Below High | P/E | Op Margin | Status | |--------|--------------|-----|-----------|--------| | SQ | 42.2% | 12.2x | 3.7% | Lowest P/E, worst margins | | PYPL | 33.7% | 14.8x | 16.7% | Best value + margins combo | | NFLX | 28.2% | 44.7x | 26.7% | High P/E but best margins | | CMG | 26.8% | 34.5x | 16.9% | Restaurant, not tech | If you bought PYPL at 34% below high with 15x P/E and 17% margins, you're buying a profitable company at pessimistic prices. The key is having the data to filter. Most stock-pickers fail because they buy stories, not numbers.
CMG is an interesting pick. Here's where it stands: | Metric | CMG | vs Peers | |--------|-----|----------| | Price | $38.62 | - | | % Below 52W High | **26.8%** | More beaten down than AMZN (5%), GOOGL (3%) | | P/E Ratio | 34.5x | Similar to GOOGL (39x), cheaper than NFLX (45x) | | Op Margin | 16.9% | Strong for restaurant sector | | Revenue | $11.3B | Growing | The "beaten down" thesis checks out: CMG is 27% below its high while most tech is within 10% of highs. At 34x P/E with 17% margins, it's not cheap, but it's cheaper than it was. For comparison, the really beaten-down names right now: - SQ: 42% below high, P/E 12x - PYPL: 34% below high, P/E 15x - NFLX: 28% below high (but at 52-week low today) CMG has room to run if you believe the brand momentum continues.
PYPL is the biggest piece of shit I own
Owning PYPL is like having a fuck up for a son. Just a constant disappointment.
I like watching PayPal and wondering if it will ever jump out of the dumpster fire. We see that kind of thing does happen. Sofi, pltr, GE, GOOGL, NFLX, META and others, they get such a universally negative sentiment to where you can’t picture them ever recovering... until they do. Could PYPL? Doesn’t seem like it today, but those other names had bad sentiment too.
What gives them an advantage in the already saturated payment processing market? What makes them different from an industry leader like PYPL or smaller payment processors like PSFE which this sub LOVED at one point. I find them bearish.
Finally a good day for PYPL. Rest of the month to be red 😂 VITL dying on the vine. Dropped another 30k in but I fear I won’t have any respite until earnings. I gotten jerked out of too many spots like this to throw in the towel. Captains going down with the ship if we sink.
Sell PYPL and buy TSLA, good luck
Depends on what it is. I bought PYPL back in the day and it dropped so I bought more. Lesson learned. I bought Google when it was the cheapest Mag7, and it dropped on positive earnings and announcements. I bought more with conviction. Would do that again. Mostly, I learned from PYPL and exit when I still have cash to exit with. But yeah if it's a high conviction play with a really solid company that makes a boatload of money, I'll double down or buy LEAPS.
3/20 $200 AMZN call 3/20 $90 HOOD call 3/20 $13 AAL calls 2/20 $100 PLNT call (Planet Fitness) 12/18 $50 PYPL call 1/15/27 $20 SMCI call
Couldnt post due to temp ban last couple days but MY GOD VITL is eating shit. My options are down 20% and I am feeling the PAIN. PYPL also stays red no love anywhere
What do you like about Shift4? And why them vs SQ or PYPL or even SEZL?
Wow you are a stupid idiot. With this amount of money you could’ve bought one leaps contract on amzn or several contracts on some good value stocks such as PYPL, PG, PEP & NVO , KMB and so on. You could’ve collected that money covered call rent money and almost be guaranteed to outperform the S&P for 2026. But instead, you decided to throw it into a 7 dte OTM option that has 110% IV and a delta of 0.0115(1% statistical probability that the stock will get to this strike for you to breakeven) on a Friday (wasting 2 days). You deserve to not only lose your money but become homeless. Wow, this is peak stupidity. I sold OTM calls on bmnu today and this post made me understand who bought those calls from me…
TSLA will go down from now, EU, US is going back to ICE, only GYNA loves electric cars (as they should be because they can't compete in ICE market) . and Elon, he loves Space more than anything else, he will leave TSLA just like he did with PYPL.
$PYPL is below $60, tempting, but I wish it has something going for it
Theyre already saying SPY 800 by year end on cnbc... pumping dog shit names like PYPL and NVDA
I don´t hold any stock forever. I rotate from overvalued stocks to undervalued stocks. Given current valuation, cash flow estimates and EPS growth I like the following for the moment; NU, MELI, AMZN, META, UBER, PYPL, ADBE, BN, PINS, betsson, AMD, NVDA and more
If I were building this for the **long run**, I’d start with **fundamentals first** \- specifically **high and stable ROIC and strong free cash flow** (that’s what I screen for using **FindGreatStocks(dot)com**). Based on that, my first **high-confidence adds** would be: * **META** * **NFLX** * **V** * **ADBE** These already show durable ROIC and FCF that support long-term compounding. Next, I’d add companies where **ROIC isn’t as high yet but is clearly expanding** and the business quality is improving: * **UBER** * **PYPL** * **ORCL** * **AMZN** * **AVGO** As a **#10**, I’d allow **one speculative bet**: * **NBIS** \- not enough fundamentals yet, but a bet on the **team**. These are the same people who built Yandex in Russia and successfully competed with Google, Uber, Spotify, and others. Core = quality + cash flow. Speculation = small, intentional, and last.
PYPL has to be the saddest stock in the universe. Nobody cared after Alex Chris mentioned OpenAI partnership. 4-year flat despite steady revenue growth.
I think concerns about $ADBE, $CRM, $FI, $PYPL, and $TTD all boil down to this question: Will AI disrupt their business models?
CMCSA; PYPL; MU; KTOS; FLNC. 60% of my portfolio is RKLB, but it doesn’t count anymore. The shares i have left won’t be sold until I die. Margin loans for me. Sir Peter changed my life. Grew up rough - my pops spent a decade in jail. But I Wont ever go hungry again! EX RKLB, the tickers above are my “growth” stocks for 2026, i say now. At the brink. 100% mission success. Joy to the world.
+36 in brokerage account, +44% in Roth. GOOGL and BABA make up a little over 40% of my portfolio. Made about 10% of my portfolio PYPL a few months back but it's down 10%. My other holdings aren't radically changed or are just smaller positions. 13% just sitting in treasuries at the moment.
Of all the garbage out there, why PYPL?
PYPL. Just sold today after a long time bag holding. Sigh.
$ADBE, $CRM, $FI, $NVO, $PYPL, $TTD Most energy stocks have not taken part in the rally, despite energy now becoming the bottleneck in AI Many staple stocks are at multi year, if not multi decade, lows. If you still believe people can return to booze, now it's the time to buy them. Or you can stock up on cheap quality alcohol too
I don't trust this shit. It gave you PYPL - one of the worst stocks of all time, worse than BYND.
Same reason I keep posting about PYPL. Those two positions make up about 80% of my portfolio and are >2x leveraged
VITL up for a 3rd day in a row while indexes red. BREAKOUT! PYPL is the ugliest dog in show jesus christ this stock cannot get a break at all. I guess it keeps lowering the cost basis on my position as it grows but I wouldnt mind seeing it go up a dollar once a month
I’ll comment tickers $LULU $NKE $TTD $ADBE $PYPL
Yes. I'm balls deep in both VITL and PYPL. I expect VITL to lift coming into earnings late feb and PYPL to hold these levels for a while but ultimately appreciate quite a bit over the next couple years w/ minimal downside risk
Really loving VITL performance this week. Chart is looking really nice. Still a long way off but every day brings earnings closer and I dont think the stock will stay in the low 30s before that reading comes out. I dont have the courage to add on any more (I did buy another 6 calls on the 22nd) but I'm feeling real good about things. Also started buying their eggs even though the idea of $9 eggs is crazy to me. Every little bit helps if we do have to hold through earnings. Little note- they do do some cool stuff- there is a QR code on the carton I can scan to read about the exact farm the eggs came from and watch a video of the chickens in their pasture. Very cool if you are ethically opposed to AG practices and animal wellbeing PYPL on the other hand is suffering but again I think the buybacks + divi + growth makes this a no brainer over the mid term and I have continued to add Jan 28 calls every day its under $60. Up to 43 $35 calls now and will continue to add until I cant anymore
so how many PYPL calls should i buy?
A lot of this comes down to lumping very different businesses into one fintech bucket. V and MA are basically toll roads, so the market already prices them as mature, low-risk infrastructure rather than growth. SCHW still trades like a financial and will stay tied to rates and balance sheet risk. PYPL, HOOD, and SOFI are priced on whether their models fully prove out, not on today’s value screens, this year especially, fundamentals took a back seat to narrative, and AI pulled most of the marginal capital, that doesn’t mean there’s no value here, it just means value hasn’t been the catalyst.
I better not see anyone recommend PYPL
has that PYPL guy killed himself yet?
If this week goes poorly I may need to ditch this VITL position. God willing that’s not the case EU trying to shit on my PYPL as well with this 0 fee EU only money transfer solution
What are the other big names from the top 5 that led to 53%? The most common names I remember are ASML, NVO, LULU, PYPL, and GOOGL. Only Google really made sense to me. Unless you’re using a specific thread where lots of infrequent users commented (like me) so higher performing stocks were overweighted as a result? Like I never see PLTR mentioned in that sub except negatively or ironically as a “degenerate stock”.
For the benefit of others reading your reply, in the TLH example, $3000 of the $3500 loss could be used to lower one’s ordinary income in 2025. The remaining $500 loss can be carried forward to use in future years. I’m primarily a buy and hold investor. I rarely sell, but at the end of the year if I see that I have some capital gains, I’ll employ TLH to negate those gains with the end result being a net $3k loss. Though long term gains are taxed at a lower rate than ordinary income for me, due to liquidating an inherited IRA, I need to control the size of my MAGI. I can always sell some shares of PYPL. :-(
trust. PYPL rocket inc.
Ah, sorry. I actually think PYPL is very undervalued right now.
I feel like PYPL is more insulated for two reasons. First, it has more business than Klarna. Second, Klarna carries all the risk of debt. But PayPal does not. The merchant does. PayPal gets a bigger slice of the purchase fee whereas Klarna gets commission for making the purchase possible.
PYPL for me. Not stupid expensive, they're transitioning to becoming more lean and focusing on directed advertising using their purchase data
I'm putting $500 on all but the 5 I don't already own (RKLB, MRNA, RDW, PYPL, RDDT) and KRKNF because my brokerage app said I have to call them to buy shares. I'll hold until Christmas 2026
There’s only one thing I know for sure. And that is that PYPL won’t be listed by anyone here 😂
SOFI was a great call when it was trading in the $7 range & everyone was dogging it. However, now I just don’t see it busting out of this $25-$30 slot. PYPL is probably a decent bet over the next 2yrs. While I don’t see it ever reaching its highs again, it’s in a good $58-$61 range for acquiring shares at a discount (they’re also doing a ton of buybacks). I see it trading back in the $80-$90 range in 2026.
PYPL. New management, cutting other bs, integrating ads and AI shopping. Me slightly bullish
It’s still trading very expensively for a company that is losing top line YoY. There may be something of a rebound here but I think if you are just looking for a move to make there are better momentum plays (space/energy) and better rebound plays as well (metals/AI and where I am personally, VITL and PYPL.
I sold PYPL to add more TSLA and AMD.
Sold PYPL - they don’t seem to be going anywhere. And: as a consumer, their product still sucks. Sold PVH - no moat (while i.e. TPR doing real well: pricing power). Hanging on to everything else (very diversified, large portfolio). NVDA, AMD, MU - still a keeper. Underlying trends still going on, strong execution, good financials. Only reason I sell is those companies that have no moat or execution issues. Still debating over ADBE (their financial trend looks good - the lackluster performance this year I think is attributed to AI scare if they are able to hold up. I believe they should be, human creativity can’t be replaced by AI)
Wouldn´t it be great to bet on PYPL now and win it all back?
Lost all my money during 2021 buying options thinking PYPL was going to bounce back, but nope. Also, FUCK PYPL.
I still think about when I was weighing my options for investing $5k back in 2023. Was trying to decide between PYPL and PLTR. Thank god lol
Just got done tax loss harvesting some bags. Man I had some doozies in there, PYPL, INTC, TTD...
Load the boat with JD and PYPL while you’re at it
PYPL. Everyone hates it. Perfect setup
I hate PYPL lost all my money during 2021.
It's all fun n games until you get assigned on the stock and that dips 90% and stays flat for years. Looking at you PYPL and MRNA
“We want to be a bank too!” - PYPL “Reeeeeeeee! We’re going to downgrade you.” - Morgan Stanley
Thanks Morgan Stanley for downgrading PYPL. My GTC leap order finally filled and I’m officially loaded up now. Literally can’t go tits up 😵💫
PYPL at around 72$... holding because I think it will go up... someday...
PYPL is a great undervalued stock at this price. If you bought it years ago it was massively overvalued. I think that PayPal will be one of the best performing stocks in 2026-2027 based on valuation
Yeah ... based on that, I held on to stupid PYPL for God knows how long. Damn thing is a dead stock even though they are still excited about the company. There is a lot to valuation. I know the basic plot. PE, PEG, forward PE, the moat etc. But on this sub, someone explained why PLTR is trading so rich. I am not sure I would have figured it out myself. I will give it a thought and will try to put more effort into it. That's the only way out.
Financials and technicals in both companies. VITL is showing rapid, rapid growth and is solidly profitable while catering the the top of the K shape economy. At the bottom of 2 year lows while in much better shape then earlier arrivals at this price. PYPL is buying back over 10% of the outstanding shares per year at this price and paying a 1% dividend while priced for no growth. Still showing some growth in top line and increasing margin. They have a couple of initiatives (ads/stablecoin/bank charter) that could add more growth. If any of these initiatives work and PYPL gets repriced to 16x earnings or something the stock will be up 50-100% in 6 quarters. I understand it’s been a huge dog and people don’t like it but at these prices I think upside is SIGNIFICANTLY higher than downside
Every day that PYPL is down I buy a couple more LEAPS for Jan 28 and I’m starting to get seriously over leveraged. Really gonna need this VITL shit to work out and get to my price targets so I can gtfo and de-risk. Playing these games at what could be a local top for the markets is dumb and scary 😰
Morgan Stanley cutting PYPL's price target to $51 from $74 is bullish AF
Believe it or not, after the major sell off on lowered EOY guidance, VITL still strong and PYPL an absolute defensive juggernaut
Ranked from least to most concerned about whether/when it'll get back there. Most of these aren't too bad, and most of them are fairly small positions, but I'll play along. AMD $205 NVDA $205 CLF ~$15.50 TLRY ~$20 [post-split, i.e. $2 before] PYPL ~$120 BB ~$8 CGC ~$15
PYPL at $201 a share (luckily not many shares)
PYPL VS AFRM , pair trade they said. fml
Sell PayPal, keep Pfizer. You are getting paid a pretty good dividend yield waiting for $PFE to turn around. Plus if we have more US interest rates cuts, some risk averse investors will be bidding up the big dividend stocks. $PYPL doesn't pay a dividend and I fail to see a catalyst for a turnaround.
Even with the recent announcement I'd hold PFE and offload PYPL, PFE has pays fat dividends and is a better defensive option especially to offset your gains which I imagine are tech heavy
If PYPL sides with the seller after I escalate a dispute, I’ll short them to the core of the earth.