Financials: PayPal, Square, and 3 New SPAC Deals to Watch

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🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Earnings season is now well underway, and not only have we heard from two of our favorite fintech heavyweights, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) and Square (NYSE: SQ), but we also learned that Square is making a monster acquisition. Plus, Fool.com contributor Matt Frankel, CFP, discusses three recently announced SPAC deals he's watching -- Nextdoor, Vacasa, and Sky Harbour.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Industry Focus. The Podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day.
0:11.0	I'm your host Emily Flippin. I'm Jason Moser. I'm Nick Seidphle. I'm Dylan
0:15.0	Lewis. And today we're talking financials. Today we're talking consumer
0:18.7	goods. Wild Card Wednesday. And we're talking energy. And today we're talking tech. Let's dive in.
0:26.6	It's Monday August 2nd. I'm your host Jason Moser and on this week's financial show
0:30.5	we've got some more earnings to get to. Square is making a big bet on
0:34.8	buy now pay later and we'll have a few stocks for you to watch as well.
0:38.8	Joining me as always or almost always he wasn't here last week but we're glad he's back here this
0:45.0	week it's certified financial planner mr. Matt Frankle Matt has everything going
0:49.4	pretty good I'm not sure you could say as always but I missed like I think two or three shows over the years.
0:54.4	So it's not nitpig. I can't make them all.
0:57.1	It rounds to zero. It rounds to zero. It rounds to zero.
1:01.3	No, it's good to have you back here. I'm glad you're able to go unplug last week and have a little vacation with the family. Sounds like you guys really enjoyed it.
1:08.0	As is the case, I think, with a lot of us, even when you go on vacation you're never fully able to unplug
1:16.9	I have to believe you were keeping an eye on some of these earning stories that were going
1:29.2	going on during during the week but let's open the show first today let's talk about
1:38.9	PayPal because PayPal earnings came out late last week and it was a fairly muted reaction from the market. Stock was down a little bit.
1:40.3	I mean the stock has obviously done tremendously here over the past several years. So, I mean, it seemed
1:48.0	all in all like it was a strong quarter. I mean, shocker, right? It seems every quarter they just continue to to announce these just
1:54.0	tremendous numbers and this gross payment volume that is now on a run rate of well over
1:59.7	one trillion dollars Matt looking through this PayPal release, what, I mean, what stood out to you in the quarter?
2:08.0	Nothing, and I guess that's kind of what really you were pointing through there.
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