{"id":902995,"date":"2025-02-05T11:12:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T05:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=902995"},"modified":"2025-02-05T11:12:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T05:42:36","slug":"paypals-q4-margin-contraction-eclipses-upbeat-2025-profit-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/05\/paypals-q4-margin-contraction-eclipses-upbeat-2025-profit-forecast\/","title":{"rendered":"PayPal\u2019s Q4 margin contraction eclipses upbeat 2025 profit forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) -PayPal shares fell 5% in premarket trading on Tuesday after the digital payments giant&#8217;s operating margin shrank in the fourth quarter, raising concerns over the possibility of a sluggish recovery and overshadowing a strong profit forecast for 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Investors have been worried about challenges to the company&#8217;s profit margins, which benefited for years from a first-mover advantage in the digital payments industry but had fallen behind following the pandemic amid slowing spending and rising competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) -PayPal shares fell 5% in premarket trading on Tuesday after the digital payments giant&#8217;s operating margin shrank in the fourth quarter, raising concerns over the possibility of a sluggish recovery and overshadowing a strong profit forecast for 2025. Investors have been worried about challenges to the company&#8217;s profit margins, which benefited for years from a first-mover advantage in the digital payments industry but had fallen behind following the pandemic amid slowing spending and rising competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}