Is eBay A Good Stock To Buy?
by Insider Monkey
By Matt Doiron
eBay Inc. (EBAY) is up 74% since a year ago, with a remarkably steady increase in its stock price over that time, and is now valued at a market capitalization of almost $75 billion. In the fourth quarter of 2012, eBay experienced an 18% increase in revenue compared to the same period in 2011. The growth rate was particularly high in the Payments business, which includes Paypal and is now responsible for 36% of revenue. For the year as a whole, total sales for the company were up 20% so there seems to have been a slight deceleration but still a very strong performance on the top line. eBay has controlled the increase in operating expenses to the point that operating income was up 16% in Q4 2012 versus a year earlier. While on paper the earnings number was down, this was due to extraordinary nonoperating items in the third quarter of 2011 which caused net income to be abnormally high. read more »
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