PayPal Holdings Inc. shares are up 0.3% in premarket trading Wednesday after Wedbush analyst Moshe Katri said that the company's recently announced acquisition of Hyperwallet had strategic benefits. The purchase "strengthens its merchant-facing platform," Katri wrote of PayPal. "Combined with recently acquired iZettle, it also enhances the company's ongoing monetization effort." He wrote that the two deals help place PayPal "on par competitively" with Square Inc. and Adyen NV PayPal said Tuesday that it would be acquiring Hyperwallet, a payouts platform, for $400 million. Hyperwallet enables companies like Expedia to pay gig-economy sellers who, say, make their homes available to guests via a home-sharing platform. PayPal shares are up 61% in the past year, while the S&P 500 has gained 13%.