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Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have offered $60.50 a share for longtime rival PayPal, a bid valuing the payments company above $53 billion.
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 <h2 id="key-points">Key Points:</h2>
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 <li>Stripe and Advent offered $60.50 a share for PayPal, roughly a 28% premium.</li>
 <li>The bid values PayPal above $53 billion and carries about $50 billion in bank financing.</li>
 <li>PayPal has not responded, and the buyers want to advance talks within weeks.</li>
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<h2 id="paypal-takeover-terms">PayPal Takeover Terms</h2>
The two firms <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/15/stripe-advent-offer-to-buy-paypal-for-more-than-53-billion-reuters.html" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">submitted</a> their joint offer earlier this month, following a first approach in April that PayPal left unanswered.
The price marks about a 28% premium to PayPal's Tuesday close of $47.37, and roughly $50 billion in committed financing from major banks backs the bid.
Under the terms, Stripe and Advent would hold equal stakes and keep PayPal whole rather than carve it into pieces. Neither side has confirmed a transaction. The company's shares still jumped almost 15% in premarket trading, turning one of the market's laggards into a leader for the session.
PayPal once led digital payments, then lost ground to Apple Pay and Google Pay as consumers embraced newer and faster ways to pay. Its market value peaked near $360 billion in 2021 before sliding to about $36 billion this year, wiping out much of its pandemic-era gains, with the stock down from $78.22 to $47.37 over 12 months.
Enrique Lores became chief executive in March. He is running a turnaround built on artificial intelligence and cost cuts, with roughly $1.5 billion in targeted savings. First-quarter revenue rose 7% to $8.35 billion and beat forecasts, while payment volume <a href="https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/syezdo4efx" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">climbed</a> 8% to about $464 billion.
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<h2 id="stablecoin-prize-for-stripe">Stablecoin Prize For Stripe</h2>
Stripe owns Bridge, a stablecoin infrastructure firm it <a href="https://beincrypto.com/stripe-advent-paypal-takeover-bid/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">bought</a> for $1.1 billion in 2025.
The startup has since anchored a wider crypto push. Bridge lets businesses mint their own dollar-backed tokens rather than run a single consumer coin, and it has won conditional U.S. approval to operate as a national bank, letting it custody crypto and issue stablecoins.
PayPal brings the other half through PYUSD<a href="https://yellow.com/asset/pyusd" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">(PYUSD)</a>, a stablecoin with a market cap near $2.85 billion that already sits in everyday wallets. Sam Badawi of Wolf Financial<a href="https://coingape.com/stripe-advent-bid-53-billion-to-acquire-paypal-amid-stablecoin-push/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">said</a> the deal would give Stripe a dominant payments asset and an immediate boost to its market share.
Stripe has climbed fast. A February tender offer <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/stripes-valuation-soars-74-to-159-billion/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">valued</a> the firm at $159 billion, up about 74% from $91.5 billion a year earlier. Its payment volume reached $1.9 trillion in 2025, up 34%, as the company pressed deeper into stablecoins.
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PayPal Receives $53B Takeover Approach From Stripe And Advent

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