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Horizon
Consolidated fair value $75.04 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $1.03B 9% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution $13.08B EBITDA less segment capex, before corporate items

The new chief executive's own frame, five months in: stabilise before you grow. Enrique Lores took over on 1 March 2026 and this was the quarter he put a roadmap against the story - refocus and rebuild the consumer network, modernise the platform and sharpen geographic focus, simplify the organisation, and only then shift from stabilisation to targeted growth investment. This case takes him at his word: branded checkout holds low-single-digit growth rather than rolling over, financial services becomes the largest driver of transaction-margin growth as he says it will, and the savings arrive on schedule. It is the bull case with the sequencing management actually described, dialled back because none of it has been demonstrated yet. It still does not require the take rate to stop falling, and it still does not assume a re-rating past 8x.

Revenues from other value added services

Basis quarter$850M
Final quarter$1.03B
Implied CAGR+4%
Final revenue mix9%

The other ten per cent, and the part that is not a payments business: partnership and referral fees, subscription and gateway fees, interest and fees on the loan book, and interest earned on the assets underlying customer balances. That last component alone was $281M of the $850M basis quarter and carries essentially no volume cost, which is why PayPal now reports transaction margin dollars both with and without it. It has turned from tailwind to headwind - the line grew 15-17% year over year through 2025 and grew 0.4% in the basis quarter, entirely because interest on balances fell from $318M to $281M while the rest grew about 8%. No operational unit exists to drive it, so it runs on a sequential growth rate.

Last four quarters
2025 Q3 $895M Reported
2025 Q4 $857M Reported
2026 Q1 $852M Reported
2026 Q2 $850M Reported
Interest and revenue earned on assets underlying customer balancesInterest and fees on the consumer and merchant loan book, including BNPLPartnership and referral feesSubscription and gateway fees
Sequential growth +0.6%/qtr decaying toward +1.0% Ex-interest the line grows ~8%/yr and interest on balances keeps shrinking; the sum lands near +2.4%/yr.
Revenues from other value added services

Latest: $1.03B (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2021Q2 $441M
2021Q3 $575M
2021Q4 $541M
2022Q1 $485M
2022Q2 $534M
2022Q3 $612M
2022Q4 $681M
2023Q1 $676M
2023Q2 $731M
2023Q3 $764M
2023Q4 $743M
2024Q1 $665M
2024Q2 $732M
2024Q3 $780M
2024Q4 $778M
2025Q1 $775M
2025Q2 $847M
2025Q3 $895M
2025Q4 $857M
2026Q1 $852M
2026Q2 $850M
2026Q3E $857M
2026Q4E $864M
2027Q1E $871M
2027Q2E $879M
2027Q3E $887M
2027Q4E $895M
2028Q1E $903M
2028Q2E $911M
2028Q3E $920M
2028Q4E $929M
2029Q1E $938M
2029Q2E $948M
2029Q3E $957M
2029Q4E $967M
2030Q1E $977M
2030Q2E $987M
2030Q3E $998M
2030Q4E $1.01B
2031Q1E $1.02B
2031Q2E $1.03B

Assumptions & reasoning

  • This line is left ASEASONAL on evidence, not for want of looking. The same centred-moving-average method run over the same 21 quarters gives factors whose within-quarter spread reaches 0.073 against a largest mean deviation of 0.061, and the two windows disagree by 0.015 in Q4 - ten times the disagreement on the transaction line. A shape fitted across a period when the interest component swung from tailwind to headwind is fitting a rate cycle and calling it a season.
  • Interest on customer balances was $281M of the $850M basis quarter, derived as transaction margin dollars $3,900M less the $3,619M reported ex-interest. It is a rates position with no operational driver in PayPal's disclosure, so it is left inside this line's growth rate rather than modelled as a separate rate path.
  • The 91.3% margin is $850M less the $74M credit loss the deck reports separately, and is ASSUMED. Interest on balances carries no volume cost at all, which is what puts the margin this high; the terminal 88% assumes credit and BNPL grow faster than the fee lines and pull allocated credit loss up.
  • $589M of basis-quarter revenue sits outside ASC 606 - interest and fees on loans, hedging gains and losses, and interest and gains on assets underlying customer balances - and most of it is in this line. PayPal also originated $12.5B of loans receivable held for sale in the quarter and sells them on, which is what adjusted free cash flow exists to strip out.
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