PayPal

American financial services company
Organization business Q135683185
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Key Facts

  • Country: United States[1], US[2]
  • Item operated: PayPal[3]
  • Owned by: PayPal Holdings[4]
  • Industry: financial services[5]
  • Inception: March 9, 1999[6], 1999-03-09[7]
  • Location of formation: Palo Alto[8]
  • Parent organization or unit: PayPal Holdings[9]
  • Described at URL: http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/paypal-inc-history/[10]
  • Product or material produced: credit card[11]
  • Legal form: Delaware corporation[12], XTIQ[13]
  • Total revenue: 6,727,000,000 US dollars[14], 8,025,000,000 US dollars[15]
  • Net profit: 955,000,000 US dollars[16], 419,000,000 US dollars[17]
  • Operating income: 1,091,000,000 US dollars[18], 1,268,000,000 US dollars[19]

Product Details

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GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): LBQ3CAGQB6M55WHL3G85[20]

  • Registered legal name: Paypal, INC.[21]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-DE[22]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[23]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): XTIQ[24]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[25]

  • LEI registration status: ISSUED[26]

  • Entity created: 1999-03-09[27]

  • LEI first registered: 2012-11-08[28]

  • LEI last updated: 2026-03-18[29]

  • LEI next renewal: 2027-04-12[30]

  • Managing LOU: 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12[31]

  • Registration authority: RA000602[32]

  • Authority entity ID: 3014267[33]

  • Conformity flag: CONFORMING[34]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . Global LEI Index. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . Form 10-K. sec.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . Form 10-K. sec.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [16] ↑ . Form 10-K. sec.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [17] ↑ . Form 10-K. sec.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [18] ↑ . Form 10-K. sec.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [19] ↑ . Form 10-K. sec.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [20] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [23] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [24] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [25] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [26] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [27] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [28] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [29] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [30] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [31] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [32] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [33] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [34] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · Iamcarbon · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Product or material produced → credit card
    Official name → PayPal, Inc.
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Official name: PayPal, Inc."
  2. 9w ago · Iamcarbon · 2026-08-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Child organization or unit → Q141022454
    Wikidata description → American financial services company
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Child organization or unit: Q141022454"
  3. 13w ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-07-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of israel j9u id → 987007443881705171
    Private enterprise number → 46173
    Isni → 0000000404754205
    Net profit → {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4917', 'amount': ', {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4917', 'amount': '
    + 40 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Encyclopædia britannica online id: money/PayPal"
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