Global Paymentsvs.PayPal
GPN vs PYPL · both in Payment rails & networks, part of the Banks, payments & capital markets value chain: The networks and processors that take a fee every time a card is swiped, the fee engine.
PayPal is about 2.1× larger than Global Payments by market cap; year to date, Global Payments leads (+21.2% vs +6.7%).
Side by side
| GPN | PYPL | |
|---|---|---|
| Market cap | $24B | $51.2B |
| Price | $92.96 | $61.81 |
| Today | −0.9% | −0.7% |
| Return YTD | +21.2% | +6.7% |
| Return 1Y | +5.6% | −10.4% |
| P/E | — | 10.4 |
| P/S | 2.4 | 1.5 |
| P/B | 1.0 | 2.6 |
Data as of 2026-08-27 · updates daily after U.S. close
The two companies
Global PaymentsGPN
Merchant acquiring: getting payments accepted and managed across every channel a business sells through. Fiserv and Block are the direct rivals.
Full GPN profile →PayPalPYPL
Online checkout is the core, with Venmo for peer-to-peer transfers and Braintree processing behind other companies' payments. Growth has matured and rivals have crowded in.
Full PYPL profile →More GPN & PYPL comparisons
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