PayPal Holdings (PYPL) Operating Income (2014 - 2026)

PayPal Holdings posted quarterly Operating Income of $1.5 billion for Q1 2026, down 2.75% year-on-year from $1.5 billion in Q1 2025, and down 1.52% on a QoQ basis from $1.5 billion in Q4 2025.

PayPal Holdings (PYPL) Operating Income (2014 - 2026) Analysis & Trends

PayPal Holdings (PYPL) has 13 years of Operating Income data on file, last reported at $1.5 billion in Q1 2026.

  • For the quarter ending Q1 2026, Operating Income fell 2.75% year-over-year to $1.5 billion; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at $6.0 billion (up 5.91% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was $6.1 billion, up 13.9% from the prior year.
  • Operating Income for Q1 2026 stood at $1.5 billion, down from $1.5 billion in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Operating Income topped out at $1.7 billion in Q4 2023 and bottomed at $711.0 million in Q1 2022.
  • The 5-year median for Operating Income is $1.3 billion (2024), against an average of $1.3 billion.
  • The widest annual swing landed in 2022, when Operating Income tumbled 32.21%; it then surged 48.3% in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Operating Income shows it stood at $1.2 billion in 2022, then jumped by 38.91% to $1.7 billion in 2023, then slipped by 16.61% to $1.4 billion in 2024, then increased by 4.86% to $1.5 billion in 2025, then retreated by 1.52% to $1.5 billion in 2026.
  • The last three Operating Income figures came in at $1.5 billion (Q1 2026), $1.5 billion (Q4 2025), and $1.5 billion (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) Op. Inc (Qtr)
1 Visa 539.53 Bn 527.13 Bn - 7.23 Bn
2 Mastercard 441.81 Bn 431.60 Bn - 4.91 Bn
3 American Express 215.01 Bn 160.96 Bn 17.43 Bn 3.55 Bn
4 Capital One Financial 114.99 Bn 38.50 Bn - -
5 PayPal Holdings 41.29 Bn 31.95 Bn 7.84 Bn 1.49 Bn
6 Affirm Holdings 24.62 Bn 22.89 Bn 261.64 Mn 88.43 Mn
7 Synchrony Financial 24.22 Bn 3.66 Bn - -
8 SoFi Technologies 23.71 Bn 20.31 Bn 929.25 Mn 37.32 Mn
9 Ally Financial 13.13 Bn 12.69 Bn 1.98 Bn 746.00 Mn
10 Credit Acceptance 6.46 Bn 6.44 Bn 562.70 Mn 139.80 Mn

Historic Data

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DateValue
Mar 31, 2026 1.49 Bn
Dec 31, 2025 1.51 Bn
Sep 30, 2025 1.52 Bn
Jun 30, 2025 1.50 Bn
Mar 31, 2025 1.53 Bn
Dec 31, 2024 1.44 Bn
Sep 30, 2024 1.39 Bn
Jun 30, 2024 1.33 Bn
Mar 31, 2024 1.17 Bn
Dec 31, 2023 1.73 Bn
Sep 30, 2023 1.17 Bn
Jun 30, 2023 1.13 Bn
Mar 31, 2023 999.00 Mn
Dec 31, 2022 1.24 Bn
Sep 30, 2022 1.12 Bn
Jun 30, 2022 764.00 Mn
Mar 31, 2022 711.00 Mn
Dec 31, 2021 1.05 Bn
Sep 30, 2021 1.04 Bn
Jun 30, 2021 1.13 Bn