PayPal stock drops to trade at $82.44 as of 11:44 AM EDT.
The move was made by PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ:PYPL) in order to strengthen security while boosting sales at businesses that use PayPal. Passkeys have started to be added so that customers can access their accounts without a password.
The company reported that 44% of Americans have given up on an online transaction because they forgot their password. PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) says that the FIDO Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium came up with the Passkeys standard. This is a way to replace passwords with cryptographic key pairs. The method stops passkey data from being sent from one platform to another, and it can’t be hacked.
Users of the iPhone, iPad, or Mac can log in to PayPal (PYPL) using the new option, and as other devices accept passkeys, it will be available to users of those platforms as well. The creation of a safe way to log in without a password is crucial since, according to the business, more than 2.6 billion records were compromised in 2017, and 81% of those breaches are thought to have been the result of password theft and guessing. Customers in the U.S. will begin receiving PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) passkeys on Monday. Early in 2023, PayPal passkeys will be made available in more nations.
PayPal stock price performance
On Tuesday, August 2, PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) released its most recent quarterly earnings report. The company that provides credit services did better than the average prediction of $0.54 by $0.11 and made $0.65 per share for the quarter. PayPal’s net margin was 7.79%, and its return on equity was 16.79%. In contrast to the average forecast of $6.76 billion, the company’s revenue for the quarter was $6.81 billion. For the current year, experts anticipate that PayPal will generate 2.89 EPS on average.
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