anyone who bought paypal holdings stock last summer may be ruing the day despite popping a bit this past week the shares at 97 are still off 68 from their highs around 308 memories of the stock’s skid in february when it fell 35 over two days may still be uncomfortably fresh in investors’ minds but set aside the wounds and buyer’s remorse paypal ticker pypl deserves a second chance the company is making operational changes and talking up financial discipline its core business remains solidly profitable as with other fallen giants— netflix nflx comes to mind—there’s a budding bull case shares go for 21 times estimated 2023 earnings while that’s a premium to the market it isn’t steep for a company with earnings growth forecast at a roughly 20 clip