A History of Outperforming Analyst Forecasts and Beating the Odds: EBay Inc (EBAY)

With 3.54 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 4.74 million shares. During the session, the Internet Retail company that operates in wider Consumer Cyclical sector, reached to the highest price of $67.635 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $65.955. The 52-week range on EBAY shows that it touched its highest point at $71.52 and its lowest point at $40.74 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $63.32. With its current market cap of 31.61 billion, EBAY has annualized dividend of $1.08 while the current yield stands at 1.64%. EBAY paid its most recent dividend on 1732838400, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1732838400. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.35.

Price Performance and Earnings:

Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of EBAY was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 3.32%, but this was up by 3.43% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 4.60% while six-month performance rose 20.86%. The stock gained 54.60% in the past year, while it has gained 6.54% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for EBAY yields 3.96 with Next year EPS estimates of 5.23. For the next quarter, that number is 1.20. This implies an EPS growth rate of 13.91% for this year and 8.27% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 10.32% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 15.28%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 482.00 million EBAY shares are outstanding with a float of 477.47 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-01-15, short shares totaled 18.97 million, which was 396.00000000000006 higher than short shares on 1734048000. In addition to Mr. Jamie J. Iannone as the firm’s CEO, President & Director, Mr. Stephen J. Priest serves as its Senior VP & CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.95762 of EBAY’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

An Overview of Recent Financials:

Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, EBAY reported revenue of $2576000000.0 and operating income of $595000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $759000000.0 and diluted EPS was $1.29.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for EBAY since 15 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 9 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 5 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With EBAY analysts setting a high price target of 75.0 and a low target of 49.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 63.11379. Based on these targets, EBAY could surge 13.64% to reach the target high and fall by -25.76% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -4.37% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $4.83996 being high and $4.80996 being low. For EBAY, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $4.82996. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.39 and the low estimate is $1.26. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.33.