eBay Inc  EBAY

Summary (from latest annual report – 2015)

• Total equity  : 6.57 billion USD
• Market Cap is 28.8 billion USD ( last price of the stock is 24.41 USD)
• eBay Inc is a commerce platform and provides online marketplace for sale of goods
• Equity of total company decreased from 19.9 billion USD in 2014 to 6.57 billion in 2015
• Company has 1.83 billion USD in cash on account
• Total equity – cash on account = 6.57 billion usd  - 1.83 billion usd = 4.74 billion usd
• In 2015 company had 6.77 billion usd long-term debt, short – term debt was zero

In 2014 company had 6.77 billion usd long-term debt, short-term debt was 850 million usd

• eBay balance sheet has become weaker in 2015 (In latest annual report - total equity decreased to 6.57 billion USD from 19.9 in 2014, total debt was 6.77 billion usd in 2015)
• Company's revenue decreased in latest annual report  to 8.59 billion usd from 17.9 billion in 2014
•  Net income in 2015 was 1.72 billion usd, net income in 2014 was 46 million usd

eBay Inc

eBay is an American multinational corporation and e-commerce company, providing consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales services via the internet. It is headquartered in San Jose, California. Today it is a multibillion-dollar business with operations localized in over 30 countries. It previously offered online money transfers (via PayPal),[6] which was a wholly owned subsidiary of eBay from 2002 until 2015. The website is free to use for buyers, but sellers are charged fees for listing items and again when those items are sold.

• In 1999 eBay  acquired Butterfield & Butterfield  for 260 million usd
• In 2000 eBay  acquired Half.com for 318 million usd
• In 2001 eBay  acquired Internet Auction Co for 120 million usd
• In 2003 eBay  acquired EachNet  for 150 million usd
• In 2004 eBay  acquired mobile.de for 152 million usd
• In 2004 eBay  acquired Baazee.com for 50 million usd
• In 2004 eBay  acquired Craigslist for 13.5 million usd
• In 2004 eBay  acquired Marktplaats.nl  for 290 million usd
• In 2004 eBay  acquired Rent.com  for 415 million usd
• In 2005 eBay  acquired Gumtree for 80 million usd
• In 2005 eBay  acquired Kijiji for undisclosed amount
• In 2005 eBay  acquired Shopping.com  for 620 million usd
• In 2006 eBay  acquired Tradera  for 48 million usd
• In 2007 eBay  acquired StumbleUpon  for 75 million usd
• In 2007 eBay  acquired StubHub  for 310 million usd
• In 2007 eBay  acquired GittiGidiyor  for 217 million usd
• In 2008 eBay  acquired Fraud Sciences for 169 million usd
• In 2008 eBay  acquired Den Bla Avis for 380 million usd
• In 2008 eBay  acquired Bill Me Later for 1.2 billion usd
• In 2008 eBay  acquired dba.dk & bilbasen.dk for 390 million usd
• In 2010 eBay  acquired Magento for 225 million usd
• In 2011 eBay  acquired GSI Commerce for 2.4 billion usd
• In 2011 eBay  acquired  Where, Inc. for 135 million usd
• In 2011 eBay  acquired Zong  for 240 million usd
• In 2013 eBay  acquired Braintree for 800 million usd
• In period from 2012 -2015 eBay acquired: WHI Solutions, Local Events, Svpply, Decide.com, Bureau of Trade, Shutl, PhiSix Fashion Labs, Twice -  worth 300 million usd
• In late 2009, eBay completed the sale of Skype for 2.75 billion usd, but eBay still owns 30% equity in the company worth 3-4 billion usd

Total = 10.05 billion usd

Opinion about the company

Fundamentally it is a not bad company (Total debt is very big (6.77 billion usd), company has 1.83 billion USD in cash on account  , ROE is around  13%).