Growth Metrics

PayPal Holdings (PYPL) Gross Margin (2016 - 2026)

PayPal Holdings filings provide 12 years of Gross Margin readings, the most recent being 92.04% for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Gross Margin fell 48.0% to 92.04% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 93.12%, a 59.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 93.12%, down 59.0% from a year prior.
  • Gross Margin hit 92.04% in Q4 2025 for PayPal Holdings, down from 93.81% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Gross Margin ranged from a high of 94.53% in Q1 2024 to a low of 89.93% in Q2 2021.
  • Median Gross Margin over the past 5 years was 92.93% (2022), compared with a mean of 92.58%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Gross Margin: crashed -220bps in 2021 and later soared 297bps in 2023.
  • PayPal Holdings' Gross Margin stood at 90.37% in 2021, then grew by 3bps to 92.9% in 2022, then rose by 1bps to 94.19% in 2023, then fell by -2bps to 92.52% in 2024, then decreased by -1bps to 92.04% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Gross Margin were 92.04% (Q4 2025), 93.81% (Q3 2025), and 92.97% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.