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Bloomberg's Soper on PayPayl Earnings and Pact With Visa(Audio) · Bloomberg Intelligence

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  Speaker 1: listening to taking stock with pin Box and Kathleen Hayes
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  Speaker 1: on Bloomberg Radio. Shares of PayPal are higher right now
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  Speaker 1: by more than two and a quarter percent and after
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  Speaker 1: hours trading after the company reports a second quarter results,
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  Speaker 1: earnings per share a thirty six cents at matches the
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  Speaker 1: average analyst estimate of thirty six cents, but the company
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  Speaker 1: demonstrates that sales are growing. Sales for the quarter two
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  Speaker 1: point six five billion, much better than the two point
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  Speaker 1: six billion expected by analysts, and also taking a look
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  Speaker 1: at the third quarter, PayPal says that they will earn
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  Speaker 1: between thirty three and thirty five cents to share. Previous
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  Speaker 1: estimate was for thirty five cents. The company also saying
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  Speaker 1: that sales for the year will increase. Let's find out
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  Speaker 1: more from Spencer Soper. He is our technology and e
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  Speaker 1: commerce reporter from Bloomberg News, joining us from our Seattle
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  Speaker 1: bureau and you can follow Spencer on Twitter at Spencer
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  Speaker 1: Soaper s o p e Er. Spencer tell us about
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  Speaker 1: the results from PayPal holdings. Yeah, thanks, uh, and you
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  Speaker 1: gave a good rundown. You look like a good second
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  Speaker 1: quarter and they beat on on their forecast as well.
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  Speaker 1: One thing, um, the one other thing going on is
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  Speaker 1: that they simultaneously announced the deal with Visa, uh, you
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  Speaker 1: know largest credit cards who were regarding fees and uh
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  Speaker 1: and in how they um have their customers link PayPal
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  Speaker 1: accounts to either bank accounts or credit cards and on
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  Speaker 1: data sharing and that was a big deal as well.
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  Speaker 1: And so uh it could be the stock reacting to
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  Speaker 1: that deal with with with Visa as well. Well, you've
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  Speaker 1: written a spencer that PayPal is going to stop discouraging
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  Speaker 1: customers from linking accounts to Visa cards and then to
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  Speaker 1: share more data with the card networking ext change for
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  Speaker 1: what they describe as long term visa fee certainty. That
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  Speaker 1: means they're going to just make money. Yeah, well it's it.
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  Speaker 1: It ends some uncertainty. There's been these sticking points between
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  Speaker 1: these two players. Especially more and more transactions you know,
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  Speaker 1: go digital and PayPal put continues to grow. It's a
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  Speaker 1: bigger thorn on the side of visas another announces agreement.
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  Speaker 1: And the one key sticking point is what's what's called
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  Speaker 1: a c H steering. If you make a payment on
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  Speaker 1: PayPal that's linked to your bank account, that is a
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  Speaker 1: less expensive transaction for PayPal than if you make a
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  Speaker 1: transaction on PayPal that's linked to your Visa card. So
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  Speaker 1: PayPal has had this incentive to steer customers towards bank
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  Speaker 1: accounts as opposed to credit cards or debit cards. And
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  Speaker 1: uh and Visa wanted to put an end to that.
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  Speaker 1: And the main trigger that Visa had that it could
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  Speaker 1: have pulled and didn't could have been imposing a higher
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  Speaker 1: fee on PayPal transactions. Um. And so this kind of
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  Speaker 1: removes that threat for PayPal, which uh there have been
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  Speaker 1: some tough talk Visa CEO about that uh uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: potential potential threat. And I think investors were uh happy
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  Speaker 1: just to see this see this issue resolved. Now. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the shares of pay Pal, as I said, they're up
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  Speaker 1: about two and a half percent and after hours trading,
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  Speaker 1: all right, So this kind of buries the hatchet between
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  Speaker 1: PayPal holdings and a Visa Visa coming out, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: rather PayPal coming out and reporting sales that were better
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  Speaker 1: than analysts estimated. Is that going to be a trend
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  Speaker 1: because taking a look at the rest of the year,
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  Speaker 1: the company seems to also be saying that they expect
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  Speaker 1: sales to be pretty good. Yeah, they're, they're um, uh,
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  Speaker 1: they've updated their app. They're seeing more more traction from that,
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  Speaker 1: a big emphasis on mobile, uh emphasis on venmo is
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  Speaker 1: their peer to peer platform which you know, I can
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  Speaker 1: give you twenty dollars to share a restaurant bill, uh
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  Speaker 1: without for free, without any fees. But they're they're making
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  Speaker 1: a progress of monetizing that, trying to make that a
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  Speaker 1: payment for merchants as well, where we're where PayPal is
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  Speaker 1: actually making some money off of that. So they have
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  Speaker 1: uh in their in their brain Tree platform which powers
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of things including uber um. You know, you're
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  Speaker 1: seeing strong growth. So yes, they they're, they're they're well
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  Speaker 1: positioned in the in the digital payment spaces. More and
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  Speaker 1: more transactions are made digitally. Well, maybe that's why they're
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  Speaker 1: saying that the third quarter revenue number is going to
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  Speaker 1: be between two point six two billion and two point
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  Speaker 1: six seven billion. They previously the estimate was for two
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  Speaker 1: six one. So they're increasing their guidance for third quarter sales. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so they're seeing, uh seeing something something Rosie Rosie there
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  Speaker 1: all right. Sale shares are up now three percent in
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  Speaker 1: the after hours trade. Tell me about eBay. We noted
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  Speaker 1: that eBay stock has moved higher today by more than
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  Speaker 1: ten and a half percent of two dollars and nine
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  Speaker 1: for eBay. They surprised investors yesterday after the close. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: eBay had a big a big quarter and a big beat.
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  Speaker 1: But the main thing beyond the numbers is that they've
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  Speaker 1: been talking for several quarters now about these back end
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  Speaker 1: initiatives they've been taking on to take better advantage of
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  Speaker 1: their data to drive more sales um and, and they've
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  Speaker 1: they've cautioned investors it's going to be a year's long project,
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  Speaker 1: and they're they're finally starting to see, um see some
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  Speaker 1: results of that in terms of of growth. Uh. And,
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  Speaker 1: and that's been the main main thing is can what
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  Speaker 1: can eBay do to to return to growth? Still growing
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  Speaker 1: slower than the e commerce overall, but investors, why, we're
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  Speaker 1: encouraged by what they what they saw after you know,
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  Speaker 1: several quarters of promises and assurances. Yeah, they said that
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  Speaker 1: full year revenue would be almost nine billion dollars. That's
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  Speaker 1: well a second quarter revenue was up more than six percent. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, eBay CEO Devin when they remarked on the
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  Speaker 1: call that that they were seeing results sooner than they
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  Speaker 1: than they expected. Um, so I was encouraging, uh encouraging
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  Speaker 1: quarter for m and investors like what they saw. Well.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly eBay shares, as I said, up nearly eleven percent
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  Speaker 1: today the stock of eBay, but for the year up
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  Speaker 1: only nine percent. So this rebound is certainly helping investors,
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  Speaker 1: but only in the last several weeks. Thanks very much
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  Speaker 1: for spending time with the Spencer Soaper is our a
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  Speaker 1: tech and e commerce reporter for a Bloomberg News joining
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  Speaker 1: us from our Seattle bureau. He can be followed on
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  Speaker 1: Twitter at Spencer Soaper. That's s O p e Er.
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