--- title: Stripe and Advent International offer $53 billion to... description: Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have made a joint $53 billion acquisition offer for PayPal at $60.50 per share, a 28% premium over its... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/stripe-and-advent-international-offer-53-billion-to-acquire-paypal-wwyipwiac twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Stripe and Advent International offer $53 billion to acquire PayPal | daily.dev og:description: Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have made a joint $53 billion acquisition offer for PayPal at $60.50 per share, a 28% premium over its... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/stripe-and-advent-international-offer-53-billion-to-acquire-paypal-wwyipwiac og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/WwYiPwiac.png og:image:alt: Stripe and Advent International offer $53 billion to acquire PayPal og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Stripe and Advent International offer $53 billion to acquire PayPal **[Collections](https://daily.dev/sources/collections)** · 2 min read · 4 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have made a joint $53 billion acquisition offer for PayPal at $60.50 per share, a 28% premium over its recent trading price. PayPal, which peaked at $360 billion in market cap in 2021, has not responded to the bid. The strategic rationale for Stripe is gaining PayPal's established consumer brand and trust. Advent's involvement is complicated by its ownership of Nuvei, which is acquiring Payoneer to build a Stripe competitor. PayPal is currently undergoing a turnaround under CEO Enrique Lores, including a reorganization into three units and $1.5 billion in AI-driven cost savings. If completed, the deal would be among the largest in fintech history. ## Content Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have jointly bid $60.50 per share to acquire PayPal, valuing the company at just over $53 billion. The offer is backed by roughly $50 billion in committed debt financing from JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley, with each party taking an equal stake rather than breaking PayPal up. PayPal's board rejected the bid as inadequate. Directors believe the offer undervalues the company's turnaround potential, and investor Michael Burry publicly argued fair value is closer to $75–$115 per share. The $60.50 price represents a 28% premium over PayPal's pre-announcement close, but it's a fraction of the roughly $360 billion market cap PayPal hit at its 2021 peak. The company now trades around $36 billion. The secured financing suggests Stripe and Advent are serious and may come back with a higher number. This isn't the first approach either — Stripe's interest in PayPal was reported as far back as February, and PayPal apparently didn't respond to an earlier April offer before this one became public. For Stripe, the logic is straightforward: PayPal has something Stripe doesn't — an established consumer brand with hundreds of millions of users. That kind of trust takes years to build. Advent's position is more complicated. The firm already owns Nuvei, which is in the process of acquiring Payoneer to build a Stripe competitor. If this deal closes, Advent would effectively be backing both sides of the payments rivalry. Antitrust scrutiny is a real obstacle. Together, the two companies processed around $3.7 trillion in payments in 2025, and their combined dominance in online checkout would likely draw regulatory attention. Braintree, PayPal's merchant processing unit, could be carved out as a remedy. PayPal is in the middle of a turnaround under new CEO Enrique Lores, who reorganized the company into three units and outlined $1.5 billion in AI-driven cost savings, with a potential 20% workforce reduction. The board's rejection suggests they think that plan is worth more than what's on the table. Whether Stripe and Advent agree enough to raise their offer remains to be seen. If completed, the deal would rank among the largest in fintech history. PayPal is being advised by Goldman Sachs and Evercore. ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@hardik15** · 0 upvotes > Is this for real? > > If this happens this will be similar to what happened with Yahoo and Google. > > Paypal has been pioneer and one of the only options for decade or more for online payment. > > > Stripe's acquisitions and growth in last few years are out of this world. --- Tags: [#fintech](https://daily.dev/tags/fintech), [#stripe](https://daily.dev/tags/stripe), [#paypal](https://daily.dev/tags/paypal) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/stripe-and-advent-international-offer-53-billion-to-acquire-paypal-wwyipwiac) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Stripe and Advent International offer $53 billion to acquire PayPal","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/stripe-and-advent-international-offer-53-billion-to-acquire-paypal-wwyipwiac","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/stripe-and-advent-international-offer-53-billion-to-acquire-paypal-wwyipwiac"},"datePublished":"2026-07-15T13:19:29.526Z","dateModified":"2026-07-17T08:26:15.448Z","description":"Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have made a joint $53 billion acquisition offer for PayPal at $60.50 per share, a 28% premium over its...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/3d84b73e3b642f63244279eaafa4cfa5?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/3d84b73e3b642f63244279eaafa4cfa5?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Collections","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Collections","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--fk_6ycEi--/f_auto,q_auto/v1780996001/logos/collections?_a=BAMAMiWQ0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/collections"},"commentCount":1,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/stripe-and-advent-international-offer-53-billion-to-acquire-paypal-wwyipwiac","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":4},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}],"keywords":"fintech,stripe,paypal","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Collections","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/collections"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Stripe and Advent International offer $53 billion to acquire PayPal"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/stripe-and-advent-international-offer-53-billion-to-acquire-paypal-wwyipwiac","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"Is this for real?\nIf this happens this will be similar to what happened with Yahoo and Google.\nPaypal has been pioneer and one of the only options for decade or more for online payment.\nStripe’s acquisitions and growth in last few years are out of this world.","datePublished":"2026-07-16T07:40:00.783Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/WwYiPwiac#c-ZaynVPHZ3","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Hardik","url":"https://daily.dev/hardik15","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--O0TOmw4y--/f_auto/v1715772965/public/noProfile"}}]} ```