PayPal: One Of The Best Values In Growth

Seeking Alpha2023-03-06

SummaryPayPal delivered one of its best quarters in recent history.Earnings guidance was impressive, but the stock is still lower.We tell you why and where we think you should buy this.Here Lie The ...

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(NASDAQ:PYPL) for a few choice months last year, we had a neutral stance in our most recent piece back in November.Seeking AlphaWe thought a bounce was imminent when we wrote our bullish piece since the valuation had compressed sufficiently. While we were not all the way there yet, options offered lucrative earnings for a defensive entry price.PayPal: Valuation Hits All-Time LowWith the price appreciation in the months following that piece, the above trade could have been closed with capture of almost 100% of the premiums without waiting out the whole term as we had suggested in our following article. We were back in the neutral camp once we reviewed the Q3results in light of the prevailing macro environment. The revenue run rate was just about keeping up with the nominal GDP and transaction volumes were trending downward. On the other hand, while the transaction and operating margins were down year over year, they held up better than our expectations. 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(UPST).Data by YChartsWe take a look at the Q4 results next.Q4-2022Q4-2022 was a good quarter and PYPL delivered a solid beat in earnings even though revenue came in a shade under estimates. This was definitely stronger than our outlook as we expected margins to stay weak.PYPL Q4-2022 PresentationActive accounts grew once more, despite intense competition and payments transactions were up 7%. In the slide below, you can see the transaction margin which, while lower than the 52.3% we saw last year, is still relatively healthy.Q4-2022 Earnings ReleaseThat same transaction margin led to an operating margin that expanded versus the 15.2% seen at the end of last year.PYPL Q4-2022 PresentationPayPal raised the ante for the bears by providing their best guidance in at least the last 4 quarters. Q1-2023 will show a 23-25% earnings growth, a number that was way ahead of analysts' estimates.PYPL Q4-2022 PresentationFor the full year, earnings per share are expected to come in at $4.87.PYPL Q4-2022 PresentationOur TakeThe market did not get too impressed with those results and the early gains were squandered in the days ahead.Data by YChartsBulls might be frustrated here and wondering exactly what the company needs to do to catch a break. There are three different parts to this answer. The first is that revenues are always the story for growth stocks. You can dance on the earnings beat, but if revenues come in under, there will be pressure. So the fact that 38 analysts brought down their revenue numbers, while 37 revised their earnings estimates higher, has a lot to do with this.Seeking Alpha-PYPLOn the revenue side, estimates have been falling for quite some time as PayPal is maturing as a growth play. Estimates for 2026 are down almost 30% in the last 6 months.Seeking AlphaThis is basically what happens when analysts take a current growth trajectory and extrapolate it into infinity. When the cycle normalizes, there are these unrealistic expectations which need to be grounded.The second part is that analysts still think that margins will continue expanding, as evidenced by EPS growth being stronger than revenue growth.PYPL Q4-2022 PresentationWhile that may play out for 2023, we think beyond that, they may again have to cut estimates. We think markets already know this and are discounting a very slow growing company in the future.ValuationThe final piece is the valuation story. At 15X earnings, PYPL stock might appear to be a growth investor's dream. Certainly when investors were paying 17X sales in 2021, the odds were firmly stacked against them.The problem of course is that those are non-GAAP earnings and exclude $1.31 billion of stock based compensation.PYPL Q4-2022 PresentationThis works with PYPL issuing stock to employees and the repurchasing that as a way of deploying free cash flow. We and most analysts that have invested outside of the bubble years of 2020 and 2021, believe that the GAAP number is actually quite appropriate.PYPL Q4-2022 PresentationAn alternative is to compute the adjusted free cash flow yield by taking the company provided free cash flow and subtracting the stock based compensation out. The rationale is that the initial portion of the stock buyback is just being used as an offset to keep share counts static, you really should not be giving the company credit for that. So adjusted free cash flow works to around $3.7 billion. On the current market capitalization, you have a 4.3% adjusted free cash flow yield.Data by YChartsWe hate to break it to you, but that is not much in an era of 5.5% risk free Federal Funds rate.VerdictThe good news is that PYPL does have a respectable valuation. 4.3% adjusted free cash flow yield or 23 times GAAP earnings are actually very nice valuations relative to what madness transpired over the markets in the last 2 years. The bad news is that it is not remotely low enough if you understand the history of bubbles. Bubbles end with extreme undervaluation and we are not there yet. Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO), Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Intel Corp. (INTC) are all good examples that found a true bottom in March 2009 as their PE ratios markedly compressed from Dotcom days.Data by YChartsYes, that was during the global financial crisis, but you can see that journey was 85% complete even before the collapse we saw in the latter half of 2008. We will add here that the interest rates were slashed to the bone and the stocks still became that cheap. At the minimum you should expect a similar outcome when interest rates are so high and climbing.While PYPL is one of the few growth stocks with respectable valuations, we don't think the journey is over. If you embrace that forecast, the best way to play it is to sell cash secured puts at $60 or lower strikes, after the stock takes rough tumble. We rate this a hold at present. Marrying our thinking on PYPL with our outlook on the market, makes us believe that a longer term buying opportunity will present itself in late 2023.Please note that this is not financial advice. 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