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Market cap
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Tangible equity (USD)
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Price / tangible book
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Price / book
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Net income / ending equity
25.3%
Net income / ending assets
3.1%
Efficiency ratio
247.6%
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Decision snapshot: DFS 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 DFS's multiple
Needs DFS P/E.
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Profitability lag
Asset efficiency lag
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Statements
Reported bank earnings and balances, with each company’s reporting period shown.
Values retain reported currencies and share bases. Select a figure to inspect its period, calculation and filing inputs. Differences require compatible units and periods.
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Trendline
Nine period-end years of reported revenue, earnings, and margins. Periods and currencies are shown with the data.
Price framework
Tangible book and profitability anchor a bank, not enterprise value.
Deposits and cash-like balances distort enterprise value for banks, so this section reads equity value, tangible book and profitability instead.
Price / book
Market cap
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Tangible equity (USD)
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Price / tangible book
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Price / book
—
Net income / ending equity
25.3%
Net income / ending assets
3.1%
Efficiency ratio
247.6%
Price / book
Market cap
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Tangible equity (USD)
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Price / tangible book
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Price / book
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Net income / ending equity
25.8%
Net income / ending assets
6.5%
Efficiency ratio
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Price framework
The same filing-backed model used on each company's valuation page, with company-specific inputs and calculated scenarios.
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Debt and bridge-cash inputs are required to translate enterprise value into equity value.
Balance sheet health
Inspect reported liquidity and leverage alongside historical financial-health checks.
Financial strength on a 0–9 scale.
Bankruptcy-risk signal from balance sheet and earnings power.
Not enough data to score either balance sheet.
Cash excludes investments. EBITDA is an operating-income-plus-D&A proxy. Missing borrowing categories remain unavailable; select a value to inspect its inputs.
Comparable set
Where the pair sits against the wider banking comparable set.
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LLM-powered synthesis
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If you believe DFS can sustain its superior margin profile and 12.2% revenue growth versus PYPL, then a constructive view is warranted because the implied valuation range appears to underwrite a much higher price than PYPL point estimate despite missing multiple data.
The provided valuation work is incomplete for DFS because current price, P/E, P/S, and EV-based multiples are unavailable, so the gap is inferred mostly from the implied price framework. PYPL trades at 10.6x P/E and 1.5x P/S, while DFS has a much higher implied price range under both PYPL and DCF frameworks, suggesting DFS could be materially undervalued if those assumptions hold.
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