Travis Hoium
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One of the options is to just keep buying back shares.
They can buy somewhere between 10% and 15% of shares outstanding pretty easily each year.
But does a sale maybe make more sense?
Lou, Stripe was one of the names that has come up this week.
They're still private, but there's a lot of hype behind Stripe.
I think $159-ish billion valuation, whereas PayPal is profitable and only has about a $40, $45 billion valuation.
Strategically, would Stripe make any sense?
And then if we want to open the can of worms, how in the world would they pull off a deal?
When you are in private markets, you're not being marked every day the way that PayPal is.
So it's very possible that their market clearing price is more like $60 billion.
Does Stripe make any sense as a buyer?
It's fun to talk about, but every time I think through it, Lou's right.
They are kind of the Switzerland.
They're very much a digital company.
PayPal is trying to move more into the physical world in a lot of different ways.
There could be pluses and minuses.