eBay Inc. is a global commerce company, through its Marketplace platforms, which connects buyer and seller in more than 190 markets around the world. Co.'s products include Promoted Listings Standard, Promoted Listings Express, Promoted Listings Advanced and External Promoted Listings. It has developed user interfaces, buyer, seller and developer tools and transaction processing, database and network applications that help enable its users to reliably and securely complete transactions on its sites. We show 62 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our EBAY shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute EBAY market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing eBay market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing eBay's market cap history versus its peers.
Many "beginner" or "novice" investors will look at one stock trading at a price of $10 per share and another trading at
a price of $20 per share and think the latter company is worth twice as much. Of course, that is a completely meaningless comparison without also knowing how many shares outstanding there are for each of the two companies,
and then calculating their respective market caps. Comparing the share price of eBay versus a peer is one thing; comparing
eBay market cap versus a peer is a completely different story.
Furthermore, via fluctuation both in per-share price and in the number of shares outstanding (via issuance of new shares over time, the repurchase of existing shares),
the market cap for a company like eBay can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching eBay by allowing them to research the eBay market cap history. |
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