Should Investors Buy SoFi Stock Instead of PayPal Stock in October?

The Motley Fool · 10/20/2025 09:30

SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ: SOFI) and PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) are disrupting the financial technology industry, but only one can be the better investment in this comparison.

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*Stock prices used were the afternoon prices of Oct. 15, 2025. The video was published on Oct. 17, 2025.

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