Should PayPal Investors Be Worried About Square's Afterpay Takeover?

The Motley Fool2021-08-05

Square overtakes PayPal in the "buy now, pay later" space with a massive acquisition. Key Points Square is buying Afterpay, a market leader in “buy now, pay later” services, for $29 billion. PayPal ...

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The deal represents a premium of 21.9% over Afterpay's ten-day weighted average share price, and values the company at 25 times this year's sales.\nSquare's stock rallied following the announcement, which accompanied a solid second-quarter reporton Aug. 1 that beat analysts' expectations. Meanwhile, shares of its rival PayPal, which had already been sliding following its mixedsecond-quarter report on July 28, fell even further after Square posted its earnings report and announced the Afterpay deal.\nIMAGE SOURCE: GETTY IMAGES.\nSquare's takeover of Afterpay counters PayPal's \"Pay in 4\" BNPL service, which it launched last August. Both Afterpay and Pay in 4 let customers pay for goods in four interest-free payments, but Square plans to integrate Afterpay into both its Seller ecosystem and its rapidly growing Cash App, which already provides peer-to-peer payments, bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) purchases, and stock trading services.\nShould PayPal's investors worry about Square's latest move? 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If we exclude those bitcoin sales, Square's revenue only rose 17% in 2020, and analysts expect its total revenue to grow just 13% in 2022 as those cryptocurrency trades normalize.\nHowever, they still expect Afterpay's revenue to rise 66% in fiscal 2022 -- so it could generate smoother growth than Square's volatile core business. Afterpay would also expand Square's overseas presence, since it only generates about half of its underlying sales in the United States.\nAfterpay's active customers grew 63% to 16.1 million in 2021, and it serves nearly 100,000 merchants worldwide. Square's Cash App hit 40 million active customers in June, up from 36 million at the end of 2020. Merging those two high-growth platforms together -- and adding Afterpay's BNPL services to its platforms -- could significantly expand Square's ecosystem.\nShould PayPal be concerned?\nPayPal was already in a vulnerable position after its second-quarter revenue growth and third-quarter revenue forecast missed Wall Street's expectations. It also warned that its loss of eBay to its Dutch rival Adyen N.V. -- which concludes its three-year transition this year -- will throttle its near-term revenue growth.\nThat slowdown raises doubts about PayPal's ambitious plans to more than doubleits annual revenue by 2025, as well as concerns about its recent decision to hike its processing fees for U.S. merchants.\nPayPal operates in over 200 markets worldwide, and its number of active accounts rose 16% year-over-year to 403 million in the second quarter. Its peer-to-peer payments app Venmo serves more than 50 million active users.\nPayPal repeatedly cited its BNPL service as a growth engine during its latest conference call. Over seven million consumers have used its BNPL service for more than 20 million transactions so far. The service has processed more than $3.5 billion in TPV (total payment volume) since its launch, with $1.5 billion of that total processed in the second quarter alone.\nThat figure sounds impressive, but $1.5 billion only accounted for 0.5% of PayPal's total TPV of $311 billion during the quarter. It also reveals its Pay in 4 platform is still much smaller than Afterpay -- which generated $15.6 billion in underlying sales (comparable to PayPal's TPV) in fiscal 2021.\nPayPal previously offered \"pay later\" options with its revolving credit line and an Easy Payments feature, but \"Pay in 4\" marked its first step into the streamlined, interest-free BNPL market. But it arrived late to the party -- Afterpay was founded in 2014, while its Australian rival Zip was founded in 2013.\nThe bottom line\nOn its own, Square's takeover of Afterpay won't derail PayPal's long-term growth. Bank of America estimates the market for BNPL apps will expand 10-15 fold by 2025, so there could be plenty of room for Square and PayPal to expand without trampling each other.\nHowever, Square's massive acquisition of Afterpay, which instantly gives it a bigger share of the BNPL market than PayPal, highlights the key difference between the two fintech giants.\nSquare is consistently more daring-- as seen with its early moves in bitcoin trades, stock trades, and the expansion of its seller services -- while PayPal is more conservative. 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