5 Biggest BNPL Companies In The World

2. PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL)

Market Capitalization: $78 Billion

PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) operates a technology platform that enables digital payments on behalf of merchants and consumers worldwide. The company has 430 million active accounts in more than 200 markets worldwide.  Since the global pandemic, the BNPL activities of the firm have increased dramatically and given a strong momentum to Paypal to increase the customer and merchant network all around the world. The company has reported that 68% of millennial and Generation Z shoppers have used PayPal and 75% of the Paypal BNPL users are repeat users. 

Among the hedge funds being tracked by Insider Monkey, Camas, Washington-based investment firm Fisher Asset Management is a leading shareholder in PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) with 17.7 million shares worth more than $1.5 billion.

In its Q2 2022 investor letter, Mayar Capital, an asset management firm, highlighted a few stocks and PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) was one of them. Here is what the fund said:

“This quarter, we bought shares in PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL), the payments platform. PayPal has been one of the more high-profile victims of the market’s brutal ruthlessness over the past few months, and the stock fell by over two-thirds between its peak in July to the beginning of March this year. As we progressed PayPal through the Mayar Checklist Process, we identified a business with a leadership position in a structurally growing market.

The company benefits from certain network effects and faces several competitive threats at the same time. As the business profited from the move to online retail during the pandemic, as well as from the stimulus cheques handed out in the US, the stock price soared to absurd levels. As so often happens, however, the market had overcorrected by February and this quarter was offering prospective shareholders prices that assumed essentially zero growth in the business. When life gives you irrational sellers, make lemonade!”