shares of paypal holdings inc pypl surged 1148 to 9209 thursday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 247 to 428750 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 185 to 3391639 the stocks rise snapped a twoday losing streak paypal holdings inc closed 21807 short of its 52week high 31016 which the company achieved on july 26th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as visa inc cl a v rose 306 to 22066 mastercard inc ma rose 477 to 37883 and american express co axp rose 245 to 18198 trading volume 427 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 200 m editors note this story was autogenerated by automated insights an automation technology provider using data from dow jones and factset see our market data terms of use