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Background of eBay

  • eBay Inc is an American multinational e-commerce corporation that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website.
  • eBay Inc based in San Jose, California.
  • eBay Inc is a multibillion-dollar business with operations in about 32 countries.
  • The eBay Inc website is an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses worldwide buy and sell a wide variety of goods and services.
  • The website is free to use for buyers, but sellers are charged fees for listing items after a limited number of free listings, and again when those items are sold.
  • eBay Inc oversees a high-value product portfolio which operates marketplace platforms that connect buyers and sellers worldwide.
  • The company’s Marketplace platform includes its online marketplace at eBay.com and the eBay suite of mobile apps.
  • These platforms enable users to list, buy, sell, and pay for items through various online, mobile, and offline channels that include retailers, distributors, liquidators, import and export companies, auctioneers, catalogue and mail-order companies, classifieds, directories, search engines, commerce participants, shopping channels, and networks.
  • eBay Inc is a global commerce company, with its technologies and services designed to give buyers choice and relevant inventory and enable sellers to offer their inventory for sale, virtually anytime and anywhere.
  • eBay Inc develops user interfaces, buyer, seller and developer tools and transaction processing, database and network applications that help enable its users to complete transactions on its sites.
  • eBay Inc’s platforms are accessible online, through iOS and Android mobile devices and its application programming interfaces (APIs).
  • eBay Inc operates through segment such as Marketplace. Marketplace includes its online marketplace located at its website and its localized counterparts, including off-platform businesses in South Korea, Japan, and Turkey, as well as its suite of mobile applications.
  • eBay Inc has a rich history that dates to 1995 when AuctionWeb was founded by computer programmer Pierre Omidyar.
  • Jeffrey Skoll was the first president and 1996, the platform entered a deal with Electronic Travel Auction, to use SmartMarket Technology to sell plane tickets and other travel products.
  • AuctionWeb officially changed its name to eBay in 1997.
  • By 1998, eBay Inc had 30 employees, half a million users and revenues of $4.7 million in the United States and the company went public.
  • As eBay Inc expanded product categories into almost any saleable item, business grew quickly and in 2000, eBay had 12 million registered users and a cyberinventory of more than 4.5 million items on sale.
  • By early 2008 the company had expanded worldwide, with hundreds of millions of registered users, 15,000 employees and revenues of almost $7.7 billion.
  • In late 2009 eBay Inc completed the sale of Skype for $2.75 billion.
  • In 2018, eBay Inc announced that they would replace PayPal as its primary payment’s provider with Netherlands-based start-up Adyen.
  • In 2019, eBay Inc acquired a 5.59 percent stake in Paytm Mall.
  • Today, eBay Inc is truly one of the most valuable … companies in the world with a market capitalization of US$ 49.909 billion recorded in July 2025.
  • In 2025 the total staff compliment for eBay Inc was more than 12 700.

eBay Shares Growth Driver

  • eBay Inc generates revenue by a complex system of fees for services, listing product features, and a final value fee for sales proceeds by sellers.
  • eBay Inc’s transactions segment is expected to be the single-biggest revenue driver with $12 Billion in revenues (92% of Total Revenues) in 2025.
  • This transactions segment will also be the fastest-growing segment (in percentage terms) – growing 55% over 2018-2021 to add $4.1 Billion to the top line over this period (104% of $3.9 Billion in incremental revenues).
  • eBay Inc’s business strategy includes increasing international trade, having already expanded to over two dozen countries, including China and India.
  • For most listing categories, eBay Inc sellers are permitted to offer a variety of payment systems.
  • With its highest annual net revenue in 2025 eBay Inc demonstrates that e-commerce is still a growing sector, despite the initial market uncertainty during the onset of the pandemic.
  • eBay Inc acquired 3 million new shoppers in the second half of the year, even as panic-buying essentials slowed down and stores opened back up, leading experts to believe eBay’s turnaround may last post-pandemic.
  • The vast majority of eBay Inc’s revenue is for the listing and commission on completed sales.
  • Margin on each eBay Inc transaction is remarkable since once the infrastructure is built, incremental costs on each transaction are tiny.
  • The eBay Inc marketplace is well known for its service and nowadays it uses artificial intelligence to provide a personalised shopping assistant that helps people find the best deals.
  • As such, the company’s innovative and competitive portfolio has allowed it to defy the market trends surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, with performance and shares still attractive after a tumultuous 2025.

eBay Investor Tip

  • eBay Inc trades its shares on the NASDAQ Stock Market (NASDAQ) under the stock symbol EBAY. eBay Inc forms part of both the NASDAQ-100 and S&P 500 components.
  • An analysis on the market performance for the first quarter of 2025 indicated a total revenue of US$ 11,165,000,000 along with a gross profit of US$ 8,371,000,000 and EBITDA of US$ 4,642,000,000.
  • eBay Inc’s price analysis measures its market volatility, profitability, liquidity, solvency, efficiency, growth potential, financial leverage, and other vital indicators.
  • Potential eBay Inc investors should focus on studying past and present price action to predict the probability of the company’s future price movements.
  • Investors can analyse the entity against its peers and financial market to determine factors that move eBay Inc’s
  • The way eBay Inc’s growth rate compares to its peers and the wider market must be considered, as well as factors like low debt, high returns on equity and good past performance.
  • eBay Inc delivered a stable performance despite the economic impact which resulted from the global coronavirus pandemic. This stable performance can be largely owed to the company’s diverse portfolio, as well as its strong medical supplies sector which witnessed growing demand as hospitals geared up to combat the virus.
  • With sound financials and significant, consistent, and continuous growth forecasted for the remainder of 2025, shareholders who buy or sell shares can expect lucrative dividends and returns.
  • Overall, the company’s a stable performance has resulted in healthy dividends and a good share price for investors who choose to purchase shares today, securing a decent buy-in in 2025 and in the future.
  • Data from this analysis should be weighed against forecasted performance during this pandemic, but for now, prices on shares and in turn dividends remain unaffected, which provides shareholders with assurance that they will have a strong buy-in on NASDAQ.

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Consumer Cyclical

Industry

Internet Retail

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E-commerce

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