shares of paypal holdings inc pypl rose 222 to 9272 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 299 to 430017 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 281 to 3406106 paypal holdings inc closed 21744 short of its 52week high 31016 which the company achieved on july 26th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as visa inc cl a v rose 286 to 21452 mastercard inc ma rose 300 to 36852 and american express co axp rose 332 to 17782 trading volume 158 m remained 40 million below its 50day average volume of 198 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