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EBAY vs. AMZN, ETSY, GOOG, GOOGL, MELI, PYPL, TSLA, PINS, SHOP, and WMT

Should you be buying eBay stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of eBay include Amazon.com (AMZN), Etsy (ETSY), Alphabet (GOOG), Alphabet (GOOGL), MercadoLibre (MELI), PayPal (PYPL), Tesla (TSLA), Pinterest (PINS), Shopify (SHOP), and Walmart (WMT).

eBay vs. Its Competitors

eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) and Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and earnings.

eBay currently has a consensus price target of $78.89, suggesting a potential downside of 13.12%. Amazon.com has a consensus price target of $262.87, suggesting a potential upside of 15.22%. Given Amazon.com's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Amazon.com is more favorable than eBay.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
eBay
2 Sell rating(s)
20 Hold rating(s)
10 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.30
Amazon.com
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
46 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

87.5% of eBay shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of Amazon.com shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of eBay shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.8% of Amazon.com shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Amazon.com has higher revenue and earnings than eBay. eBay is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Amazon.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
eBay$10.28B4.04$1.98B$4.5420.00
Amazon.com$637.96B3.81$59.25B$6.5634.78

In the previous week, Amazon.com had 221 more articles in the media than eBay. MarketBeat recorded 262 mentions for Amazon.com and 41 mentions for eBay. Amazon.com's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat eBay's score of 1.02 indicating that Amazon.com is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
eBay
26 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
9 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Amazon.com
194 Very Positive mention(s)
29 Positive mention(s)
24 Neutral mention(s)
13 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

eBay has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amazon.com has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.

eBay has a net margin of 20.86% compared to Amazon.com's net margin of 10.54%. eBay's return on equity of 38.97% beat Amazon.com's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
eBay20.86% 38.97% 10.37%
Amazon.com 10.54%23.84%11.14%

Summary

Amazon.com beats eBay on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding EBAY and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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EBAY vs. The Competition

MetriceBayINTERNET COMMERCE IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$41.50B$76.37B$27.81B$10.19B
Dividend Yield1.28%1.18%173.90%4.60%
P/E Ratio20.0029.8120.6226.02
Price / Sales4.0430.628.54113.09
Price / Cash18.9634.9717.5129.91
Price / Book8.438.235.026.25
Net Income$1.98B$2.26B$872.22M$270.76M
7 Day Performance-2.01%5.01%1.40%3.87%
1 Month Performance-7.80%6.66%5.12%5.49%
1 Year Performance43.13%64.31%19.36%25.86%

eBay Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
EBAY
eBay
4.2181 of 5 stars
$90.80
-1.8%
$78.89
-13.1%
+43.1%$41.50B$10.28B20.0011,500News Coverage
Positive News
AMZN
Amazon.com
4.8756 of 5 stars
$229.00
-1.1%
$262.87
+14.8%
+22.3%$2.44T$670.04B34.911,556,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast
ETSY
Etsy
3.6213 of 5 stars
$53.01
-1.6%
$57.80
+9.0%
+5.9%$5.25B$2.81B42.752,400Trending News
Insider Trade
Options Volume
GOOG
Alphabet
4.5932 of 5 stars
$213.53
+0.5%
$215.19
+0.8%
+52.4%$2.58T$350.02B22.74190,200Trending News
Short Interest ↓
GOOGL
Alphabet
3.879 of 5 stars
$212.91
+0.6%
$211.53
-0.6%
+52.9%$2.57T$350.02B22.67183,323Trending News
Analyst Upgrade
MELI
MercadoLibre
4.7136 of 5 stars
$2,472.91
+0.0%
$2,817.22
+13.9%
+10.2%$125.38B$20.78B61.0718,282Positive News
PYPL
PayPal
4.8305 of 5 stars
$70.19
+0.2%
$85.00
+21.1%
-4.6%$67.06B$31.80B15.0024,400Positive News
TSLA
Tesla
4.1707 of 5 stars
$333.87
-3.5%
$303.31
-9.2%
+71.9%$1.08T$92.72B192.99125,665Trending News
Insider Trade
PINS
Pinterest
4.1655 of 5 stars
$36.68
0.0%
$42.40
+15.6%
+21.4%$24.94B$3.65B13.154,666News Coverage
Positive News
Insider Trade
SHOP
Shopify
N/A$141.28
-0.2%
$150.27
+6.4%
N/A$183.62B$10.01B91.1511,600Trending News
WMT
Walmart
4.6659 of 5 stars
$96.97
+0.9%
$110.59
+14.0%
+28.4%$773.85B$693.15B36.452,100,000Trending News

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This page (NASDAQ:EBAY) was last updated on 9/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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