Jim Cramer Believes 'PayPal Has a Great Business'
'Alright, this is really important. I think that the PayPal CEO is going to figure this out. This is Alex Chriss, he's very good. I do think that PayPal has a great business… You know, it's really top in buy now, pay later, which everybody's so crazy about. But I do think that Alex has got to start delivering, and he didn't deliver in that last quarter. I don't want you to give up on PayPal, and that's not out of hope. That's out of Alex Chriss in the core business, which I think is still strong enough to turn around.'
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PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) provides a digital payments platform connecting merchants and consumers. The company enables transactions, fund transfers, and withdrawals through multiple payment methods, including bank accounts, cards, cryptocurrencies, and stored value products.
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