PYPL 10 Year Annualized Return and Average Annual Return

The PYPL 10 year annualized return is 1.38% with dividends reinvested through 05/11/2026. Investors often use annualized return to compare long-term performance because it shows the average yearly compounded return over a full period rather than just the headline total gain.

This page shows PYPL average annual return, total return, start and end dates, and the growth of a hypothetical $10,000 investment with dividends reinvested.

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PYPL Average Annual Return Chart 10 Years
Growth of $10,000.00
With Dividends Reinvested Into PYPL

Also see:
• PYPL stock yearly return 2016
• PYPL stock yearly return 2017
• PYPL stock yearly return 2018
• PYPL stock yearly return 2019
• PYPL stock yearly return 2020
• PYPL stock yearly return 2021
• PYPL stock yearly return 2022
• PYPL stock yearly return 2023
• PYPL stock yearly return 2024
• PYPL stock yearly return 2025
• PYPL YTD return
Average Annual Return Benchmarks
Compare PYPL average annual return versus benchmarks:

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PYPL Share Performance
PYPL Average Annual Return Table 10 Years
Start date: 05/12/2016
End date: 05/11/2026
Start price/share: $39.51
End price/share: $45.07
Starting shares: 253.10
Ending shares: 254.45
Dividends reinvested/share: $0.28
Total return: 14.68%
PYPL Average Annual Return: 1.38%
Starting investment: $10,000.00
Ending investment: $11,469.36


PYPL average annual return is presented with the assumption of reinvestments of any dividends on ex-date.
About PayPal Holdings Inc
PayPal Holdings, Inc. offers a technology platform that enables digital payments and simplifies commerce experiences on behalf of merchants and consumers worldwide. Its payment solutions enable its customers to connect, transact, and send and receive payments, whether they are online or in person. It provides payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on its platform on behalf of its customers. It operates a global, two-sided network at scale that connects merchants and consumers with 426 million active accounts across 200 markets. Its brands include PayPal, Braintree, Venmo, Xoom, Hyperwallet, PayPal Zettle, PayPal Honey, and Paidy. The PYPL average annual return 10 years is shown above.

The Average Annual Return on the PYPL average annual return 10 years page and across the coverage universe of our site, is a measure of the annualized return over the past ten years (or specified start date) for a given investment (up to the end of prior trading session recorded). Arguably, choosing ten years for a measurement period is on the one hand completely arbitrary, but on the other hand provides a sufficiently long window to capture long-term trends.

Thus, researching Average Annual Returns is good practice for investors — whether PYPL average annual return 10 years or other benchmarks/peers — and when doing so it is also important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's annualized return is more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon. Our website aims to empower investors by performing the PYPL average annual return calculation with any dividends reinvested as applicable (on ex-dates).
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What has the average annual return been for PYPL over the past ten years?
✔️Accepted answer: The ten year PYPL average annual return has been 1.38% with dividends reinvested.

When you say 'with dividends reinvested' what does that mean?
✔️Accepted answer: That means that each time the stock goes ex-dividend, the average annual return calculation then factors in how that dividend amount could have been reinvested into more shares of PYPL at the then-current price — often this is referred to as 'compounding' and is very important when considering average annual return over a long period like a full decade.

What start date was used in your PYPL average annual return calculation?
✔️Accepted answer: The start date was 05/12/2016.

What end date was used in your PYPL average annual return calculation?
✔️Accepted answer: The end date was 05/11/2026.

If I had invested $10,000 into PYPL ten years ago, how much would I have today?
✔️Accepted answer: With dividends reinvested, as of 05/11/2026, you would have $11,469.36.

What does that work out to on a total return basis?
✔️Accepted answer: The PYPL ten year total return ending 05/11/2026 works out to 14.68%.


Also see:
• PYPL stock yearly return 2016
• PYPL stock yearly return 2017
• PYPL stock yearly return 2018
• PYPL stock yearly return 2019
• PYPL stock yearly return 2020
• PYPL stock yearly return 2021
• PYPL stock yearly return 2022
• PYPL stock yearly return 2023
• PYPL stock yearly return 2024
• PYPL stock yearly return 2025
• PYPL YTD return
 

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