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PayPal

PYPL

In fiscal 2025, PayPal Holdings, Inc. operated a global digital-payments network connecting consumers and merchants. Its services included PayPal and Venmo wallets, checkout using those brands, and payment processing for merchants.

Business description: FY2025CIK 0001633917Source: SEC EDGAR
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  • Net revenues increased 4% in 2025 compared with 2024, while operating income—the profit remaining after operating expenses—increased 14%. Management attributed the operating-income increase to higher revenues, partially offset by higher operating expenses.

    Source: 2025
  • PayPal processed US$1.79 trillion in completed customer payments in 2025 (total payment volume), up 7% from 2024. This is payment value, rather than PayPal revenue. The number of completed payments fell 4% to 25.4 billion. Both measures include payments completed on PayPal's platform or enabled through a partner solution, subtract reversed payments, and exclude gateway-only transactions, where the service links payments to card or bank-processing networks.

    Source: 2025
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  • Service disruption

    An August 2025 coding error in a system update caused a temporary service disruption, primarily affecting a limited number of customers and partners in Germany. PayPal reported fraudulent transaction activity for a limited period during the disruption and incurred transaction losses and other expenses.

    Source: 2025
  • Merchant credit

    PayPal's estimate of expected credit losses on loans, advances and fees owed by business customers increased to US$170 million at December 31, 2025, from US$113 million a year earlier. Management linked the increase to growth in these receivables and weaker credit quality, with the latter primarily related to lending-rule changes in 2024 that made more merchants eligible. This allowance estimates losses; it is not the amount already written off.

    Source: 2025

Business context

  • Technology overhaul

    PayPal began a technology-infrastructure overhaul in the second quarter of 2025, including plans to exit certain data centers and migrate to cloud-based solutions. Management expected the workforce component to be substantially completed in 2027 and the technology component in 2028. These were future milestones, with timing and cost estimates still subject to change.

    Source: 2025

Business in fiscal 2025

In fiscal 2025, PayPal Holdings, Inc. operated a global digital-payments network connecting consumers and merchants. Its services included PayPal and Venmo wallets, checkout using those brands, and payment processing for merchants.

Source: 2025

5-year changes

FY2021–FY2025

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  • Revenue growth

    PayPal reported annual net-revenue growth of 18% in 2021, 8% in 2022, 8% in 2023, 7% in 2024 and 4% in 2025. Each percentage compares that fiscal year with the preceding year: revenues continued increasing, but the reported growth rate was lower by 2025.

    Source: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
  • Braintree shift

    In 2023, management identified growth in payment volume and transaction count at Braintree, its payment-processing business, as the primary driver of transaction-revenue growth. The 2024 report anticipated slower Braintree volume and transaction-revenue growth in 2025 amid merchant negotiations and a stronger focus on profitability. The 2025 report described the realized outcome separately: lower Braintree volume and transaction revenue in the first half, followed by revenue and payment-volume growth in the second half.

    Source: 2023, 2024, 2025
  • Restructuring scope

    PayPal's 2022 workforce-reduction plan focused on eliminating redundant operations and simplifying its organization; its strategic actions were substantially completed that year. In the second quarter of 2025, management launched a technology-infrastructure overhaul that included plans to exit certain data centers and migrate to cloud-based solutions. Management expected substantial completion of the workforce component in 2027 and the technology component in 2028, with timing and cost estimates still subject to change.

    Source: 2022, 2025
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Dec 31, 20250001633917-26-000024Feb 3, 202610-KOpen 10-Ksec.govRead FY2025 summary
Dec 31, 20240001633917-25-000019Feb 4, 202510-KOpen 10-Ksec.gov
Dec 31, 20230001633917-24-000024Feb 8, 202410-KOpen 10-Ksec.gov
Dec 31, 20220001633917-23-000033Feb 10, 202310-KOpen 10-Ksec.gov
Dec 31, 20210001633917-22-000027Feb 3, 202210-KOpen 10-Ksec.gov

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