eBay (EBAY) Stock Price, News & Analysis

17 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for eBay in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 10 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" EBAY shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in EBAY, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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17 brokerages have issued 12 month price objectives for eBay's stock. Their EBAY share price targets range from $32.00 to $61.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $49.21 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.3%.
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eBay's stock was trading at $43.62 at the start of the year. Since then, EBAY shares have increased by 16.7% and is now trading at $50.89.
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eBay saw a decrease in short interest in March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 18,090,000 shares, a decrease of 6.3% from the March 15th total of 19,310,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 6,740,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.7 days. Currently, 3.5% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 24th 2024.
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eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY) announced its earnings results on Tuesday, February, 27th. The e-commerce company reported $1.07 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.03 by $0.04. The e-commerce company earned $2.60 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.51 billion. eBay had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 29.16% and a net margin of 27.36%. eBay's revenue for the quarter was up 3.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $0.87 EPS.
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eBay declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, February 23rd. Investors of record on Monday, March 11th will be paid a dividend of $0.27 per share on Monday, March 25th. This represents a $1.08 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.12%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, March 8th. This is an increase from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.25.
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eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.10%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 5 consecutive years, indicating the company has a new, but growing committment to grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 20.69%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, EBAY will have a dividend payout ratio of 27.00% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) stock in their portfolio include ProShares Online Retail ETF (ONLN), ProShares Long Online/Short Stores ETF (CLIX), Global X E-Commerce ETF (EBIZ), LeaderShares AlphaFactor Tactical Focused ETF (LSAT), Fundamentals First ETF (KNOW), VictoryShares Nasdaq Next 50 ETF (QQQN), Amplify Online Retail ETF (IBUY) and Invesco ESG NASDAQ Next Gen 100 ETF (QQJG).

eBay declared that its Board of Directors has authorized a share buyback plan on Tuesday, February 27th 2024, which allows the company to buyback $2,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to purchase up to 8.1% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are generally an indication that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

eBay updated its FY 2024 earnings guidance on Wednesday, February, 28th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 4.580-4.660 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of 4.340. The company issued revenue guidance of -.

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

eBay's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.21%), Thompson Investment Management Inc. (0.03%), Czech National Bank (0.02%), Alaska Permanent Fund Corp (0.01%), Pensionfund Sabic (0.01%) and Ridgewood Investments LLC (0.00%). Insiders that own company stock include Anthony John Bates, Brian J Doerger, Brian J Doerger, Cornelius Boone, Edward O Garcia, Kathleen C Mitic, Logan Green, Marie Oh Huber, Pete Thompson, Rebecca Spencer and Robert Holmes Swan.
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Shares of EBAY stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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