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$1,000 invested PayPal Holdings Inc. (2021)

NASDAQ · PYPL · reinvest dividends · adjusted close

Result2021-01-042026-08-28
Today you would have
$233
-$767 (-76.74%)
PYPLSPY (benchmark)
Entry price
$230.69
Current price
$53.66
Shares
4.3349
CAGR
-22.77%
Max Drawdown
-87.30%
vs SPY
-200.83 pp
The story

Investing $1,000 in PayPal at the start of 2021 would have left just $233 by July 2026, a loss of −76.7%. The stock entered the period near its pandemic-era peak, when online payment volumes were unusually high, and then fell as much as 87.3% as growth normalized. The S&P 500 gained +124.1% over the same stretch.

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$1,000 in PYPL (PayPal Holdings Inc.) in 2021 — what-if-invest