EBay Inc (EBAY): Today's Featured Retail Winner
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Schiff Nutrition International
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eBay Inc. provides online platforms, services, and tools to help individuals and merchants in online and mobile commerce and payments in the United States and internationally. eBay has a market cap of $60.13 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 15.9, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 53.2% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are 20 analysts that rate eBay a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and nine rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates eBay as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its compelling growth in net income, revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, notable return on equity and reasonable valuation levels. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook.
- You can view the full eBay Ratings Report.
On the negative front,
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