PayPal Sale Talks with Stripe and Advent Heat Up

Revelation News Editorial DeskAugust 14, 2026

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PayPal is continuing negotiations for a potential sale to Stripe and private equity firm Advent as the fintech company's new CEO works to turn the company around.

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The chart totals every SEC-reported transaction by month and share count, separating informative purchases and sales from non-informative awards, vesting, exercises, tax withholding and transfers. Records without a reported price remain included. Only informative purchases and sales affect the conservative sentiment signal.

Recent SEC-reported share and derivative transactions in PayPal Holdings, Inc..

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0 discretionary purchases · 0 discretionary sales

Confidence: Low

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Insiders	Activity	Description	Shares	Avg. price / share	Est. value	Trade date
SVP, Chief Accounting OfficerNatali Chris	Non-informative buy	Common StockExercise or conversion; not an open-market trade (M)	2,727	—	—	Oct 15, 2026
SVP, Chief Accounting OfficerNatali Chris	Non-informative sell	Common StockTax or exercise-price withholding (F)	1,291	—	—	Oct 15, 2026
Pres., Checkout Sol. & PayPalKeller Frank	Non-informative buy	Common StockExercise or conversion; not an open-market trade (M)	1,639	—	—	Oct 15, 2026
Pres., Checkout Sol. & PayPalKeller Frank	Non-informative sell	Common StockTax or exercise-price withholding (F)	907	—	—	Oct 15, 2026
EVP, Global Chief Risk OfficerWebster Aaron	Non-informative buy	Common StockExercise or conversion; not an open-market trade (M)	8,522	—	—	Oct 15, 2026

As filed with the SEC. Estimated value is shown only for purchases or sales with a positive reported transaction price; awards, gifts and similar activity are not assigned an assumed market value. Amendments may change the record. This is not investment advice.

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Open short positions reported twice monthly; this is not daily short-sale volume.

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Owner	Activity	Change	Shares held	Value (thousands)	Reported
Vanguard Group Inc	Buy	5,534,462 (6.523%)	90,376,927	$4,969,827	12/31/2025
Blackrock, Inc.	Buy	1,284,057 (1.743%)	74,965,012	$4,122,326	6/30/2026
Vanguard Capital Management Llc	Sell	-2,372,057 (-4.236%)	53,624,311	$2,948,801	6/30/2026
State Street Corp	Sell	-754,751 (-1.798%)	41,228,833	$2,267,174	6/30/2026
Invesco Ltd.	Buy	1,332,717 (4.15%)	33,444,420	$1,839,109	6/30/2026
Geode Capital Management, Llc	Buy	3,223,764 (12.329%)	29,372,478	$1,615,193	6/30/2026
Comprehensive Financial Management Llc	Sell	-2,046,000 (-7.87%)	23,950,118	$1,317,017	6/30/2026
Vanguard Portfolio Management Llc	Sell	-2,660,421 (-10.509%)	22,656,267	$1,245,868	6/30/2026
Bank Of America Corp /De/	Sell	-3,021,784 (-11.797%)	22,592,936	$1,242,386	6/30/2026
Goldman Sachs Group Inc	Sell	-520,447 (-4.3%)	11,581,581	$636,871	6/30/2026
Norges Bank	Sell	-4,889,541 (-30.055%)	11,379,017	$625,732	6/30/2026
Morgan Stanley	Sell	-1,095,471 (-9.592%)	10,324,704	$567,755	6/30/2026

Settlement date	Short interest	Avg. daily volume	Change vs. previous report	Days to cover
Oct 15, 2026	27,266,432	9,775,551	-8.87%	2.79
Sep 30, 2026	29,919,083	13,267,457	+1.99%	2.26
Sep 15, 2026	29,335,284	10,867,911	-12.08%	2.70
Aug 31, 2026	33,367,767	13,107,299	-1.07%	2.55
Aug 14, 2026	33,728,439	9,285,186	-15.57%	3.63
Jul 31, 2026	39,947,641	17,045,131	-27.07%	2.34
Jul 15, 2026	54,774,095	20,040,910	-0.26%	2.73
Jun 30, 2026	54,915,943	18,019,548	—	3.05

Fiscal quarter	Reported	EPS	Consensus	Surprise
Jun 2026	Jul 28, 2026	1.38	1.28	+7.81%
Mar 2026	May 5, 2026	1.34	1.27	+5.51%
Dec 2025	Feb 3, 2026	1.23	1.29	-4.65%
Sep 2025	Oct 28, 2025	1.34	1.19	+12.61%

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