eBay, Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY)

Paypal will begin competing with credit cards in Home Depot. The world is next. This will be a cash cow.

1. War on cash (electronic payment growth) - Paypal is well positioned
2. Ebay is the next best alternative to Amazon.com -- for both buyers and sellers
3. Ebay doesn't compete with the businesses that sell through its platform -- something that will eventually catch up with Amazon

Asset-light business with lots of cash; good growth potential; seems a bit undervalued right now.

Less to do with ebay itself and more to do with paypal. Expecting continued large growth of paypal. They're toying with retail a bit as well and that could be an unexpected windfall if they manage to succeed there with their PayPal card. Time will tell, but I'm buying.

347. eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) just capped off a pretty blockbuster 2011 and is trading at what appears to be a relatively cheap valuation. I would have expected a minimum of 15x earnings given their future estimated growth rate. Target: $37-$42. I will say that PayPal is worth $25 alone. I am not a fan of PayPal's willingness to cut people off from their accounts or other various policy ramifications. They could do things a bit differently in instances like those. Outperform! I'm betting CAPS points here.

http://beta.fool.com/bradford86/2012/02/02/whats-it-worth-57/1577/

Own Ebay for a piece of the Paypal action.

I believe this stock is undervalued and is a good buy.

well, here's a little tidbit i just recieved from paypal, as we all know is owned by eBay. "While you establish a successful sales history on eBay, in most cases, funds from eBay sales are available in 21 days - or sooner, based on how you ship the order. To help get your funds faster, print your shipping labels on eBay or PayPal, upload your tracking information, or mark the items as shipped on eBay. If your buyer reports a problem, it may take longer to get your funds." This company treats its small time sellers like garbage and they don't even care that we know they don't care. Run by tyrants, used to be a great company, total $hit now...

paypal service is being underestimated as future major gainer

Hoping for eventual spinoff of Paypal. Anything from its other assets like the main site, stubhub, rent is a bonus.

I also like the add-on of GSI as they are behind a large number of ecommerce sites.

Paypal.

Babo

Good spot to jump in here before earnings are announced in Jan. Beat earnings 3 out of the last 5 quarters including a major beat in Q4 last year. Looking for the same again this year.

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it just will

Current Parameters
Return on Equity (TTM)
5.00 - 7894.00
Market Capitalization
>= 10B
Industry
Retail
Gross Margin
25.00 - 99.80
CAPS Rating
All on 2011-08-30

Morningstar 5 star @ 29.40

I just get the general feeling that they don't care anymore. At all. Removing negative feedback for buyers, crappy customer service, no new features or expansion in a decade, and PayPal is increasingly becoming a security risk.

http://forums.ebay.com/db1/topic/Selling-Manager/Anyone-Think-Ebay/1000432508