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PagSeguro Digital Ltd. Class APAGSCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Financials›Miscellaneous Commercial Services

Brazilian fintech providing payment processing, POS devices and digital banking services to small and micro-merchants.

≈ A Brazilian Square/Block equivalent, majority owned by UOLMomentum laggard 18
Mkt cap
$2.11B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
96%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$42.1M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
4.5×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
n/a
WACC 6.7%
Hurdle
n/a
no reverse DCF
Next earnings
10 days
16 Nov 2026
Close · USD$7.60
1D-0.8%
1W-4.3%
1M-28.8%
3M-16.3%
6M-24.7%
YTD-21.2%
1Y-21.1%
ATR %6.6%
Beta1.38
52w lowhigh38.3% off high

What PagSeguro Digital does

Brazilian fintech providing payment processing, POS devices and digital banking services to small and micro-merchants.

Takes a small cut of each card payment and charges extra when merchants want their money before the card networks pay out, while the bank side earns interest on credit and income from deposits. Founded inside the UOL internet group, which still controls it, its customers are almost all in Brazil.

In one line: A Brazilian Square/Block equivalent, majority owned by UOL.

Products and services

  • POS card payment devices
  • Digital banking (PagBank)
  • E-commerce payment processing

Customers

  • Small & micro-merchants in Brazil
  • Individual consumers (digital banking)

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Financial services/fintech
  • Merchant payments & digital banking
  • POS payment devices, digital banking…

What could go right

  • Brazilian SMB digital-payment penetration growth
  • Cross-sell of banking/credit products

What could go wrong

  • Brazilian interest rate/credit-cycle risk
  • Intense fintech/payments competition

Moat: narrow (distribution, scale, brand). Large installed base of POS devices among micro-merchants plus a growing digital-bank customer base.

Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil · Founded: 2006

Named competitors

PagSeguro Digital at a glance

Size PagSeguro Digital (PAGS) is a United States Financials company (Miscellaneous Commercial Services) with a market value of $2.11B, the 1758th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $7.60 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares fell 24.7%, against +13.7% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 3rd lowest of 16 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 11.0% over the last twelve months (peer median +17.2%); the operating margin is 37.7% (peer median 10.4%).

Valuation It trades at 4.5× forward earnings against a peer median of 19.2× (3rd cheapest of 15).

Short interest Short interest is 12.2% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 16 Nov 2026 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

8010012011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026Peer median 116PAGS 78
Six months, rebased to 100: PagSeguro Digital against the median of its 15 peers (local-currency closes).

PagSeguro Digital financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$3.75B$3.53B$3.40B$3.14B$2.94B
Revenue growth—+4%+8%+7%—
Gross profit$1.92B$1.79B$1.62B$1.50B$1.48B
EBITDA$1.77B$1.65B$1.40B$1.35B$1.20B
Net income$407M$379M$393M$331M$291M
Free cash flow-$188M$284M-$743M$608M$464M
Capital expenditure$429M$408M$430M$398M$414M
Total debt$9.01B$8.10B$6.61B$3.39B$2.28B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

PagSeguro Digital competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-50%0%+50%+100%+150%0%+100%EVTCMQPAYOSTNEEEFTRELYKPLTPICSPAYSWEXPAGS6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. PagSeguro Digital is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+50%0×50×100×EVTCMQPAYOSTNEFLYWEEFTFOURPAYRELYPICSKLARPAYSCASSPAGSRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. PagSeguro Digital is the large dot.

PagSeguro Digital competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (PAGS vs STNE vs NU vs MELI)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
PagSeguro Digital PAGS$2.11B-25%+11%38%4.5×n/a
StoneCo STNE$1.83B-30%-30%-130%3.7×n/a
Nu Holdings Ltd. Class A NU$58.1B-13%+54%35%12.1×n/a
MercadoLibre MELI$76.6B-8%+46%8%32.0×11.9%

How PagSeguro Digital compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

PagSeguro Digital against its 15 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasurePAGSPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return-28.8%+4.5%3rd lowest of 16
6-month return-24.7%+13.7%3rd lowest of 16
Distance from 52-week high-38.3%-15.6%5th lowest of 16
Revenue growth (TTM)+11.0%+17.2%6th lowest of 16
Operating margin37.7%10.4%highest of 16
Forward P/E4.5×19.2×3rd cheapest of 15

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
PagSeguro Digital PAGSUnited States$2.11B-25%+11%38%4.5×n/an/a
EVERTEC EVTCUnited States$2.00B+40%+16%20%7.8×n/an/a
Marqeta MQUnited States$1.93B+11%+17%2%38.5×n/an/a
Payoneer Global PAYOUnited States$2.42B+39%+6%12%33.9×n/an/a
StoneCo STNEUnited States$1.83B-30%-30%-130%3.7×n/an/a
Flywire FLYWUnited States$2.62B+25%+31%9%33.9×n/an/a
Euronet Worldwide EEFTUnited States$2.65B+3%+5%11%6.2×n/an/a
Shift4 Payments FOURUnited States$3.47B+3%+32%10%8.4×n/an/a
Paymentus PAYUnited States$3.70B+20%+26%8%32.3×n/an/a
Remitly Global RELYUnited States$4.72B-7%+24%10%22.7×n/an/a
Katapult KPLTUnited States$939M+64%+13%17%n/an/an/a
PicS PICSUnited States$889M-44%+89%6%2.8×n/an/a
Klarna KLARUnited States$5.13B-6%+34%-1%106.5×n/an/a
Paysign PAYSUnited States$829M+155%+47%17%40.3×n/an/a
WEX WEXUnited States$5.99B+29%+10%27%8.0×n/an/a
Cass Information Systems CASSUnited States$694M+14%+2%22%15.7×n/an/a

Questions

Who are PagSeguro Digital's main competitors?
Named competitors: StoneCo (STNE), Nu Holdings (NU), Mercado Pago (MercadoLibre) (MELI). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes EVERTEC (EVTC), Marqeta (MQ), Payoneer Global (PAYO), StoneCo (STNE), Flywire (FLYW), Euronet Worldwide (EEFT).
Is PagSeguro Digital expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 4.5× against a peer median of 19.2×, 3rd cheapest of 15 in its peer set.
How has PagSeguro Digital stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned -24.7% against +13.7% for the median peer; over one year -21.1%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.