NASDAQ:EBAY - eBay Stock Price, News, & Analysis

eBay trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "EBAY."

eBay declared that its Board of Directors has approved a stock buyback plan on Thursday, February 1st 2018, which allows the company to repurchase $6,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are generally an indication that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

eBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY) announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July, 18th. The e-commerce company reported $0.53 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.51 by $0.02. The e-commerce company had revenue of $2.64 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.66 billion. eBay had a positive return on equity of 20.57% and a negative net margin of 10.05%. The firm's revenue was up 9.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $0.45 earnings per share. View eBay's Earnings History.

eBay is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, October, 17th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for eBay.

eBay updated its FY18 earnings guidance on Wednesday, July, 18th. The company provided EPS guidance of $2.28-$2.32 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $2.27. The company issued revenue guidance of $10.75-$10.85 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $10.95 billion.eBay also updated its Q3 guidance to $0.54-$0.56 EPS.

30 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year target prices for eBay's shares. Their forecasts range from $34.00 to $58.00. On average, they anticipate eBay's share price to reach $46.3333 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 36.2% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for eBay.

30 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for eBay in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 12 hold ratings and 17 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for eBay.

eBay saw a drop in short interest in the month of July. As of July 13th, there was short interest totalling 23,693,174 shares, a drop of 9.5% from the June 29th total of 26,177,022 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 6,711,810 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.5 days. Approximately 2.5% of the company's stock are short sold. View eBay's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to eBay include Accenture (ACN), Paypal (PYPL), Booking (BKNG), Fidelity National Information Servcs (FIS), NetEase (NTES), First Data (FDC), Ctrip.Com International (CTRP), Pinduoduo (PDD), FleetCor Technologies (FLT), Global Payments (GPN), Total System Services (TSS), Mercadolibre (MELI), Worldpay (WP), CoStar Group (CSGP) and Msci (MSCI).

News stories about EBAY stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, according to Accern. The research group identifies negative and positive news coverage by reviewing more than 20 million news and blog sources. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. eBay earned a media and rumor sentiment score of 0.11 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the e-commerce company an impact score of 48.94 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future. View Recent Headlines for eBay.

eBay's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (6.09%), Magellan Asset Management Ltd (2.38%), Boston Partners (2.09%), FMR LLC (1.72%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.23%) and Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.22%). Company insiders that own eBay stock include Brian J Doerger, Devin Wenig, Harry A Lawton III, Jae Hyun Lee, Joo Man Park, Kathleen C Mitic, Kristin A Yetto, Logan Green, Marie Oh Huber, Raymond J Pittman, Robert Holmes Swan, Scott F Schenkel, Stephen Fisher, Thomas J Tierney and Wendy Elizabeth Jones. View Institutional Ownership Trends for eBay.

EBAY stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Millennium Management LLC, OppenheimerFunds Inc., Magellan Asset Management Ltd, Natixis, Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec and Teacher Retirement System of Texas. Company insiders that have sold eBay company stock in the last year include Brian J Doerger, Devin Wenig, Jae Hyun Lee, Joo Man Park, Kristin A Yetto, Marie Oh Huber, Raymond J Pittman, Robert Holmes Swan, Scott F Schenkel, Stephen Fisher and Wendy Elizabeth Jones. View Insider Buying and Selling for eBay.

EBAY stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Unigestion Holding SA, First Manhattan Co., LSV Asset Management, Morgan Stanley, First Trust Advisors LP, Worldquant Millennium Quantitative Strategies LLC and Bank of Montreal Can. View Insider Buying and Selling for eBay.

Shares of EBAY can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of EBAY stock can currently be purchased for approximately $34.01.

eBay has a market capitalization of $33.73 billion and generates $9.57 billion in revenue each year. The e-commerce company earns $-1,016,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $1.63 on an earnings per share basis. eBay employs 14,100 workers across the globe.

eBay's mailing address is 2025 HAMILTON AVENUE, SAN JOSE CA, 95125. The e-commerce company can be reached via phone at 408-376-7400 or via email at [email protected]