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If Elon Musk buys PayPal - analysis

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Feb 23, 2026 · 17:25

So Bloomberg reported PayPal is getting unsolicited offers. They met with the companies to hear out the offers, some included offers for a full takeover, and some included offers for a partial takeover.

Now Elon Musk paid a 38% premium to acquire X.
If he wanted to buy PayPal - 44 \* 1.38 = $61 a share

Netflix paid a 121% premium or WBD. That would put PayPal at $97 a share.

Then, if PayPal let's say denies an offer for $60 a share, this would come out in public. So then the stock will rally based on management denying the offer.

At the end of the day this was huge for PayPal investors. We pretty much just got a lifeline. Unless you bought at $200+ then I don't know what to tell you. Learn to trade maybe. Currently makes $6B and trades for 6X net income. No one told you to buy at $200+.