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FY 2025 · View financials
Decision snapshot: BURL stock price vs PYPL: inconclusive Relative valuation is incomplete for this pair. Review the available filing metrics before drawing a conclusion.
Quick read
Each company valued on the other's multiple, then compared with the market price.
Implied fair value · at PYPL's multiple
Needs PYPL P/E.
Implied fair value · at BURL's multiple
Needs BURL P/E.
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Where each company leads, and how wide the gap is.
Growth edge
Pricing power
Operating leverage
Lower is better
Not comparable
Lower leverage
Statements
Core statements aligned to each company's latest fiscal year.
SEC periods: BURL FY 2026 (ended Jan 31, 2026) · PYPL FY 2025 (ended Dec 31, 2025). Fiscal years are not aligned.
Trendline
Six fiscal years of revenue, earnings, and margins before underwriting a re-rating.
Price framework
Market cap plus debt, less cash.
Price framework
Discounted free cash flow, then bridged to a per-share price. Same assumptions applied to both companies.
BURLINGTON STORES, INC. · implied price per share
Bear
$88.04
Base
$103.58
Bull
$119.11
PayPal Holdings, Inc. · implied price per share
Bear
$61.00
Base
$71.77
Bull
$82.53
Balance sheet health
Financial health checks to separate durable balance sheets from potential value traps.
Financial strength on a 0–9 scale.
Bankruptcy-risk signal from balance sheet and earnings power.
Not enough data to score either balance sheet.
Debt / equity
Total debt against shareholders' equity
0.79x
0.59x
Net debt / EBITDA
Leverage against operating earnings
0.15x
0.19x
Cash and equivalents
Liquid reserves on the balance sheet
$1.23B
$10.42B
Total debt
Interest-bearing obligations outstanding
$1.43B
$11.99B
Comparable set
Where the pair sits against the wider comparable set.
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If you believe BURL can sustain its 8.8% revenue growth while defending margins near current levels, then hold or only accumulate selectively because the stock already trades near the top of its historical band and well above PYPL-relative valuation support.
BURL is priced at a large premium to PYPL on earnings and cash-flow proxies, with its P/E of 38.7x versus PYPL's 10.6x and EV/EBITDA of 18.4x versus 6.2x. The modeled P/E-based implied price of $100.57 versus the current $368.48 indicates a -72.7% gap, but the stock still sits inside its historical band of $331.63 to $405.33, which suggests the market is relying more on BURL's own trading history than on PYPL-relative valuation.
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