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CLAIM #51024 · PayPal Holdings Inc (PYPL) · 2025Q3 earnings call · Oct 28, 2025 · due Dec 31, 2026

Those investments may very well lead to some near-term headwinds in how fast transaction margin dollars and earnings grow in 2026.

Alex Chriss · CEO

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graded after results covering Dec 31, 2026 are reported

How to check this claim

Look at: Year-over-year growth rate of transaction margin dollars and of earnings (e.g., EPS or operating income), fiscal year 2026 vs fiscal year 2025

It came true if: 2026 transaction margin dollar growth rate and/or earnings growth rate lower than 2025's reported growth rate

Where: PayPal quarterly and annual earnings releases (transaction margin dollars and EPS disclosures, 10-K/10-Q and Q4 2026 earnings call)

In context

lked about is towards agentic commerce. These are all three massive shifts that can recast the entire commerce landscape. We think we're extremely well-positioned in all three of them. If you look at digital wallets, we have leading wallets such as PayPal Holdings, Inc. and Venmo we just talked about, and we have our expansion into PayPal World, which continues to connect wallets around the world. In Buy Now, Pay Later, we just talked about upstream presentment. We talked about the expansion and the trajectory we have there. We've talked earlier about agentic commerce and the shift that's happening in our ability to lean in and win. The mindset that we have from a company is these are generational shifts that we are well-positioned and we must win in. We are going to invest appropriately. Those investments may very well lead to some near-term headwinds in how fast transaction margin dollars and earnings grow in 2026. We'll come back with more details as we think through that. Our goal is to win these markets and set ourselves up for faster, durable growth in the future across all of commerce. I just wanted to set that tone. Sarah: The next question comes from Jason Kupferberg with Wells Fargo. Your line is open. Jason Kupferberg: Good morning, guys. Thanks for taking the question. You obviously had a nice beat here on transaction margin dollars in the quarter. It seems like the branded business came in right in line with your expectations. The OWAS revenues were quite strong. I wanted to just unpack the sources of transaction margin upside in the quarter a bit. If you can give us a relative sense on how much of that upside came from the credit products versus some of the other drivers, and then just a

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SEC filings for PYPL · Claim quote is verbatim from the 2025Q3 earnings call.