PayPal Holdings, Inc. vs UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC., two Internet Retail stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where PYPL and UBER diverge most: on revenue growth, PYPL reads +5.8% and UBER reads +18.3%; on ev/ebitda, PYPL reads 7.4 and UBER reads 22.8. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. What PYPL's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). What UBER's price implies is a demanding bet versus history and the cohort (segment-resolved basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | PYPL | UBER |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $46.33 | $74.53 |
| Market cap | $42.6B | $154.4B |
| Sector | Internet Retail | Internet Retail |
| Stage | Mature | Growth |
| P/E | 8.7 | 18.5 |
| P/B | 2.13 | 6.02 |
| P/S | 1.26 | 2.88 |
| EV/EBITDA | 7.4 | 22.8 |
| Revenue growth | +5.8% | +18.3% |
| Operating margin | 17.8% | 14.6% |
| Net margin | 15.0% | 15.9% |
| Return on equity | 25.3% | 33.3% |
| Return on assets | 6.3% | 14.3% |
| Return on invested capital | 15.4% | 13.7% |
| FCF yield | 12.9% | 6.3% |
| Dividend yield | 0.3% | — |
| Debt / equity | 0.54 | 0.41 |
| Current ratio | 1.26 | 1.07 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 1.67 | 3.50 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 5 / 9 |
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