5 Tech Stocks With Biggest Upside

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

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 126 

PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) operates a technology platform that enables digital payments on behalf of merchants and consumers worldwide. On November 16, PayPal launched Return Shopping for Shopify to provide a new revenue stream for merchants of Shopify. This feature will drive customers to the merchant’s e-commerce storefronts within the return process. On November 18, PayPal revealed that in the third quarter of 2022, its total payment volume grew by 8.7 percent compared to the same quarter one year before. This payment volume was generated through the over 5.5 billion transactions which PayPal processed during that period.

On December 12, Barclays analyst Ramsey El-Assal maintained an Overweight rating on PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) stock and raised the price target to $108 from $100.

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!”