PayPal takes No. 1 in tech power ranking

PayPal Holdings (Nasdaq: PYPL) moved up three places to No. 1 in this week's Roundtable 100.

The payments company climbed as the committee weighed its profit outlook, share repurchases and plans for the PYUSD stablecoin against slower user growth and tougher checkout competition.

Published with TheStreet, the Roundtable 100 ranks 100 publicly traded technology growth assets. Committee analysts score each asset on team, safety, value, innovation and market dominance, with the average forming its power ranking.

Committee member John Divine said PayPal once traded as a high-growth payments company expected to keep adding accounts and taking checkout share. Apple and Shopify captured more online purchases as PayPal's user growth slowed.

Divine remains bullish on the company.

"PayPal is still one of the main ways consumers and merchants move money online," he said.

He also pointed to management's higher profit outlook and a multibillion-dollar share-repurchase program that is reducing the company's share count.

Another part of the case is PYUSD. PayPal has opened the stablecoin to outside developers, creating another distribution channel for its balance sheet.

Related: Explained: What is a stablecoin?

PYUSD has a market value of about $2.76 billion and represents 0.91% of the stablecoin market, according to DeFiLlama.

On Sept. 9, PayPal, M0 and MoonPay launched PYUSDx, a platform that lets businesses create onchain products backed by PYUSD. Saturn, Concrete and Cap were already live on the platform, with more than $100 million in processed volume, according to the announcement.

See PayPal on the Roundtable 100

Root (Nasdaq: ROOT) also gained three places, reaching No. 6.

Pattern Group (Nasdaq: PTRN) fell six places to No. 7. Palo Alto Networks (Nasdaq: PANW) dropped five places to No. 11, while Sezzle (Nasdaq: SEZL) fell seven places to No. 28.

Keel Infrastructure (Nasdaq: KEEL) rose two places to No. 17.

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Disclosure: RTB Digital, Inc. (Nasdaq: RTB), publisher of the Roundtable 100, is itself a ranked constituent of the index. The Roundtable 100 is published for informational purposes only and is not investment advice, an offer, or a recommendation to buy or sell any security, commodity or digital asset. Rankings reflect the views of Roundtable analysts as of the ranking date. Investing involves risk, including loss of principal.

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