PayPal Holdings, Inc. vs RELX PLC, two Internet Retail stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
PayPal moves money at checkout; RELX rents data to professionals who renew. RELX keeps the wider margin at 21.67% against PayPal's 15%, the reward of subscriptions over transaction fees. But PayPal earns more on equity, 25.26% to a figure RELX's frame here does not cleanly report, and converts far more of its price to cash, 13.51% against RELX's 6.2%. RELX trades at 21.99 times earnings, PayPal at just 8.31, so the market pays up for the data renewals and marks down the payments cash. Both run light debt. A steady information business beside a payments name the market values below its cash generation.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | PYPL | RELX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $46.33 | $32.45 |
| Market cap | $42.6B | $59.5B |
| Sector | Internet Retail | Internet Retail |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | — | +1.9% |
| P/E | 8.7 | 22.8 |
| P/B | 2.13 | 19.68 |
| P/S | 1.26 | 4.90 |
| EV/EBITDA | 7.4 | 12.4 |
| Revenue growth | +5.8% | +7.5% |
| Gross margin | — | 66.3% |
| Operating margin | 17.8% | 31.6% |
| Net margin | 15.0% | 21.7% |
| Return on equity | 25.3% | 87.0% |
| Return on assets | 6.3% | 14.1% |
| Return on invested capital | 15.4% | 95.7% |
| FCF yield | 12.9% | 6.0% |
| Dividend yield | 0.3% | — |
| Debt / equity | 0.54 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 1.26 | 0.49 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 1.67 | 3.36 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 8 / 9 |
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