PayPal price to sales ratio PYPL

Market value divided by revenue over the last twelve months, since 2016.

Today, Oct 23, 2026: 1.4×
10-year median: 4.8×
Against its 10-year history: 6th; percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
10-year range: 1.1× to 16.3×
Peer median: 3.3×

PayPal's price to sales ratio is 1.4× as of Oct 23, 2026.

That is below its ten-year median of 4.8×, lower than on 94% of days in the last ten years.

Over that time it ranged from 1.1× in Jun 2026 to 16.3× in Feb 2021.

The median for 10 credit services stocks of a similar size is 3.3×.

Price to sales ratio over time

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Year by year

Year	End of year	Low	High
2026 so far	1.4×	1.1×	1.7×
2025	1.7×	1.7×	2.9×
2024	2.8×	2.0×	2.9×
2023	2.3×	1.9×	3.6×
2022	3.0×	2.9×	9.0×
2021	9.0×	8.8×	16.3×
2020	13.5×	5.7×	13.8×
2019	7.5×	6.8×	8.9×
2018	6.6×	6.1×	8.3×
2017	7.2×	4.5×	7.7×
2016	4.6×	4.4×	5.3×

Against its peers

Companies in Financial - Credit Services nearest PayPal's size, closest first, today.

Company	Price to sales ratio
PYPLPayPal	1.4×
SYFSynchrony Financial	n/m
AFRMAffirm	5.5×
GPNGlobal Payments	2.1×
COFCapital One Financial	n/m
SOFISoFi Technologies	n/m
RBARB Global	3.2×
CSGPCostar	3.9×
CARTMaplebear	3.3×
AXPAmerican Express	2.7×
HQYHealthequity	6.3×
Peer median	3.3×

Where PayPal ranks

#58of 131Credit services stocks with the lowest price to sales ratio

What the price to sales ratio tells you

Market value divided by revenue over the last twelve months. Useful for companies with little or no profit yet, since sales are harder to make negative than earnings.

Ignores margins entirely. A software company at 10× sales with 30% margins can be cheaper than a grocer at 1× sales with 2% margins.

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Valuation data, not investment advice. Prices as of Oct 23, 2026. Reported figures come from the company's filings with the SEC.