Digital payments company PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL) has been around for a while. It was a public company for a brief moment in 2002, a few years after its 1998 founding, in the early days of the internet. Then online marketplace operator eBay snapped it up and held it until it was spun off as a public company in 2015.

Had you bought shares then, a $10,000 investment would be worth more than $15,000 today, for more than a 50% gained over eight years. While you didn't lose money, the S 500 would have turned that into $24,000. In other words, PayPal has underperformed the broader market.

Is now the time to give up on PayPal? I don't think so. In fact, now could be the best time to buy shares since the company's 2015 arrival on Wall Street.

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