Today In Data: PayPal Earnings Strength

The eCommerce arena continues to thrive against the brick-and-mortar physical locations in retail. As a result, mobile and online payment companies have done increasingly well over the past decade.

One company that saw a boost to its earnings in Q1 is payment giant PayPal.

Here are the numbers:

$2.975 billion | 2017 Q1 revenue

17 percent | Year-over-year revenue increase

6 million | New PayPal accounts added in 2017 Q1

32 percent | Transactions increase per active account

7.4 percent | Increase in after-hours trading