AFRM - Affirm Holdings and Adyen stocks extend gains as PayPal Visa other peers slip

If you subscribe to the "trend is your friend" school of investing, Affirm Holdings (NASDAQ:AFRM) and Adyen (OTCPK:ADYEY) appear headed for higher ground, and may be particularly encouraging as holiday shopping season kicks into high gear. In the year-to-date, Affirm's (AFRM) (+41%) and Adyen's (OTCPK:ADYEY) (+26%) returns have outperformed the S&P 500. During the same period a cohort of other payments-related stocks have dropped — PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) (-23%), Square (NYSE:SQ) (-8.2%), Visa (NYSE:V) (-5.6%), Mastercard (NYSE:MA) (-6.4%), Afterpay (OTCPK:AFTPY) (-9.0%),  Global Payments (NYSE:GPN) (-38%), and Fiserv (NASDAQ:FISV) (-11%) as seen in the following graph. Let's look at some other measures, though. SA Authors and Wall Street analysts favor Global Payment (GPN), PayPal (PYPL), Square (SQ), Visa (V), Mastercard (MA), and Fiserv (FISV) over Affirm (AFRM), with Wall Street analysts being the most bullish on Visa (V). SA Authors are most bullish on GPN. SA Authors' average ratings are Neutral for

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Affirm Holdings and Adyen stocks extend gains as PayPal, Visa, other peers slip