$1,000 invested PayPal Holdings Inc. (2016)
NASDAQ · PYPL · reinvest dividends · adjusted close
●Result2016-01-04 — 2026-10-15
Today you would have
$1,654
+$654 (+65.37%)
PYPLSPY (benchmark)
- Entry price
- $34.57
- Current price
- $57.16
- Shares
- 28.9308
- CAGR
- +4.78%
- Max Drawdown
- -87.30%
- vs SPY
- -288.87 pp
✦The story
A $1,000 investment in PayPal in early 2016, shortly after its spin-off from eBay, would have grown to $1,654 by July 2026, a return of +65.4%. The result masks a wild ride — an 87.3% drawdown from the pandemic-era peak — and fell well short of the S&P 500's +354.2% over the decade.
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