Traded on the Australian Securities Exchange buy now pay later leader Afterpay has been on a tear in recent weeks; while the stock initially took a big hit along with most companies in late February and March, Afterpay is up a staggering 560% since their March lows according to the Wall Street Journal; Afterpay has added one million new customers in the US in the last ten weeks and now claims a total of five million customers here; many shoppers tried the company during the shutdown as online shopping increased and buy now pay later became a popular payment option; the company is seeing increased competition in the sector as Shopify launched their own service earlier this year. The Wall Street Journal
