NASDAQ:EBAYeBay Stock Price, Forecast & News

eBay's stock was trading at $34.83 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, EBAY stock has increased by 56.1% and is now trading at $54.36. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

28 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for eBay in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 16 hold ratings and 10 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for eBay.

eBay is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, July 15th 2020. View our earnings forecast for eBay.

eBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY) posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, April, 29th. The e-commerce company reported $0.77 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.72 by $0.05. The e-commerce company earned $2.37 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.32 billion. eBay had a net margin of 44.44% and a return on equity of 63.44%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was down 1.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $0.67 earnings per share. View eBay's earnings history.

eBay declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, April 29th. Shareholders of record on Monday, June 1st will be given a dividend of $0.16 per share on Friday, June 19th. This represents a $0.64 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.18%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, May 29th. View eBay's dividend history.

eBay declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a share buyback plan on Tuesday, January 28th 2020, which permits the company to buyback $5,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to repurchase up to 17.4% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are generally an indication that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

eBay updated its second quarter 2020 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Thursday, June, 4th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 1.02-1.06 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.78. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.75-2.8 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.46 billion.

28 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year price targets for eBay's shares. Their forecasts range from $35.00 to $60.00. On average, they expect eBay's stock price to reach $47.62 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 12.4%. View analysts' price targets for eBay.

Media headlines about EBAY stock have trended somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. eBay earned a news sentiment score of 0.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the e-commerce company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View the latest news about eBay.

eBay saw a increase in short interest in the month of June. As of June 15th, there was short interest totaling 24,990,000 shares, an increase of 35.8% from the May 31st total of 18,400,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 13,950,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.8 days. Approximately 3.7% of the shares of the company are sold short. View eBay's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other eBay investors own include Netflix (NFLX), Intel (INTC), NVIDIA (NVDA), Tesla (TSLA), Paypal (PYPL), Alibaba Group (BABA), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Walt Disney (DIS), Starbucks (SBUX) and Micron Technology (MU).

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

eBay's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Reinhart Partners Inc. (0.07%) and Cacti Asset Management LLC (0.04%). Company insiders that own eBay stock include Andrew John Cring, Brian J Doerger, Devin Wenig, Jae Hyun Lee, Joo Man Park, Kristin A Yetto, Matthew J Murphy, Pierre M Omidyar, Robert Holmes Swan, Scott F Schenkel, Stephen Fisher 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 Cacti Asset Management LLC, and Reinhart Partners Inc.. Company insiders that have sold eBay company stock in the last year include Andrew John Cring, Brian J Doerger, Devin Wenig, Jae Hyun Lee, Kristin A Yetto, and Wendy Elizabeth Jones. View insider buying and selling activity 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, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of EBAY stock can currently be purchased for approximately $54.36.

eBay has a market capitalization of $38.20 billion and generates $10.80 billion in revenue each year. The e-commerce company earns $1.79 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.32 on an earnings per share basis. eBay employs 13,300 workers across the globe.

The official website for eBay is www.ebay.com.

eBay's mailing address is 2025 HAMILTON AVENUE, SAN JOSE CA, 95125. The e-commerce company can be reached via phone at 408-376-7008 or via email at [email protected]