EBAY vs. SE, EQIX, CSGP, VRSN, AKAM, SPSC, YELP, ZD, CMPR, and QNST
Should you be buying eBay stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of eBay include SEA (SE), Equinix (EQIX), CoStar Group (CSGP), VeriSign (VRSN), Akamai Technologies (AKAM), SPS Commerce (SPSC), Yelp (YELP), Ziff Davis (ZD), Cimpress (CMPR), and QuinStreet (QNST). These companies are all part of the "internet software & services" industry.
eBay vs.
SEA (NYSE:SE) and eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
SEA presently has a consensus target price of $147.15, suggesting a potential downside of 6.52%. eBay has a consensus target price of $67.65, suggesting a potential downside of 14.87%. Given SEA's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe SEA is more favorable than eBay.
SEA has a beta of 1.64, meaning that its share price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, eBay has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SEA pays an annual dividend of $1.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. eBay pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. SEA pays out 123.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. eBay pays out 27.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. eBay has increased its dividend for 7 consecutive years. eBay is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, eBay had 12 more articles in the media than SEA. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for eBay and 12 mentions for SEA. SEA's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat eBay's score of 0.74 indicating that SEA is being referred to more favorably in the media.
eBay received 1301 more outperform votes than SEA when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.88% of users gave eBay an outperform vote while only 63.44% of users gave SEA an outperform vote.
59.5% of SEA shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.5% of eBay shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of SEA shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of eBay shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
eBay has lower revenue, but higher earnings than SEA. eBay is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SEA, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
eBay has a net margin of 19.68% compared to SEA's net margin of 0.64%. eBay's return on equity of 30.97% beat SEA's return on equity.
Summary
eBay beats SEA on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:EBAY) was last updated on 6/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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