eBay Company Profile (NASDAQ:EBAY)

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

eBay announced that its Board of Directors has approved a share buyback plan on Friday, July 21st 2017, which permits the company to repurchase $3,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to repurchase up to 7.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are generally an indication that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY) announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October, 18th. The company reported $0.48 EPS for the quarter, hitting the consensus estimate of $0.48. The company earned $2.41 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.37 billion. eBay had a return on equity of 17.50% and a net margin of 80.93%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 8.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $0.45 EPS. View eBay's Earnings History.

eBay is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, January, 24th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for eBay.

eBay issued an update on its fourth quarter earnings guidance on Wednesday, October, 18th. The company provided EPS guidance of $0.57-0.59 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $0.60. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.58-2.62 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.58 billion.

37 brokers have issued 12 month price targets for eBay's shares. Their predictions range from $28.00 to $45.00. On average, they expect eBay's stock price to reach $38.14 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for eBay.

Here are some recent quotes from research analysts about eBay stock:

• 1. Benchmark Co. analysts commented, "We are raising our 2018 projections, resulting in our incremental price target increase from $40 to $45 per share. While we believe the general benefits from the SD initiative are broadly appreciated, we think the migration to SEM remains largely under-discussed, likely because of its longer-tailed, less immediate beneficial nature. While the SEO benefits are largely apparent, as well as the site optimization efforts via increases in quality landing page traffic, increases in conversion and wallet share remain a key missing ingredient that we suspect will also have a further fly wheel effect on users, traffic and leverage via word-of-mouth marketing." (9/22/2017)
• 2. Stifel Nicolaus analysts commented, "Wednesday, April 19, after the market close. We expect 1Q results generally in line with our consensus-matching estimates of revenue of $2.20B reflecting 5.4% y/y FX adj. revenue growth (in line with guidance of 4%-6%) and non-GAAP EPS of $0.48 (at the high end of $0.46-$0.48 guidance). Focus will be on 1Q:17 execution and updated thoughts on 2017 guidance. We remain Hold rated as eBay progresses on its structured data and product improvement initiatives in an effort to support higher levels of sustainable growth which likely would be realized over time." (4/14/2017)
• 3. Maxim Group analysts commented, "eBay is expected to report 1Q17 earnings after market close on Wednesday, April 19, and host a call with investors at 5pm ET." (4/12/2017)

eBay saw a increase in short interest in September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totalling 25,241,461 shares, an increase of 15.3% from the August 31st total of 21,887,047 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 8,126,618 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.1 days. Currently, 2.5% of the shares of the stock are short sold.

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eBay's management team includes the folowing people:

• Thomas J. Tierney, Independent Chairman of the Board
• Devin Norse Wenig, President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
• Scott F. Schenkel, Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President - Finance
• Stephen Fisher, Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer
• Marie Oh Huber, Senior Vice President - Legal Affairs, General Counsel and Secretary
• Scott Cutler, Senior Vice President - Americas
• Jae Hyun Lee, Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific
• Jay Lee, Senior Vice President - EMEA
• Jooman Park, Senior Vice President - APAC
• Raymond J. Pittman, Senior Vice President, Chief Product Officer

eBay's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Tandem Investment Advisors Inc. (0.00%). Company insiders that own eBay stock include Brian J Doerger, Harry A Lawton III, Jae Hyun Lee, Kathleen C Mitic, Kristin A Yetto, Logan Green, Paul S Pressler, Raymond J Pittman, Robert Holmes Swan, Stephen Fisher and Thomas J Tierney. View Institutional Ownership Trends for eBay.

eBay's stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Tandem Investment Advisors Inc.. Company insiders that have sold eBay stock in the last year include Brian J Doerger, Harry A Lawton III, Jae Hyun Lee, Kathleen C Mitic, Raymond J Pittman, Robert Holmes Swan, Stephen Fisher and Thomas J Tierney. View Insider Buying and Selling for eBay.

Shares of eBay can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of eBay stock can currently be purchased for approximately $37.97.