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Achieving those goals is made easier with the Zacks Style Scores, a unique set of guidelines that rates stocks based on popular investing methodologies, namely value, growth, and momentum. The Style Scores can help you narrow down which stocks are better for your portfolio and which ones can beat the market over the long-term.

Different than growth or momentum investors, value-focused investors are all about finding good stocks at good prices, and discovering which companies are trading under what their true value is before the broader market catches on. The Value Style Score utilizes ratios like P/E, PEG, Price/Sales, and Price/Cash Flow to help pick out the most attractive and discounted stocks.

PayPal Holding, Inc., a San Jose, CA-based company, has emerged as one of the largest online payment solutions providers on the back of its strong product portfolio and two-sided platform that enables it to offer a smooth and secure transaction facility to both customers and merchants.

PYPL is a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) stock, with a Value Style Score of A and VGM Score of A. Shares are currently trading at a forward P/E of 14.9X for the current fiscal year compared to the Financial Transaction Services industry's P/E 16.2X. Additionally, PYPL has a PEG Ratio of 1.3 and a Price/Cash Flow ratio of 13.6X. Value investors should also note PYPL's Price/Sales ratio of 2.3X.

Many value investors pay close attention to a company's earnings as well. For PYPL, four analysts revised their earnings estimate upwards in the last 60 days, and the Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $0.01 to $5.09 per share for 2025. PYPL boasts an average earnings surprise of 14%.

PYPL should be on investors' short list because of its impressive earnings and valuation fundamentals, a good Zacks Rank, and strong Value and VGM Style Scores.

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