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eBay Delivers Good Enough Earnings, With Many Shares Repurchased
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eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) has now reported its second-quarter earnings, with the report coming in at $0.69 earnings per share (EPS) on an adjusted basis. Revenue was $4.37 billion. The online auction and payment systems giant was expected to report earnings of $0.68 EPS (up from $0.63 a year ago) on a 13% sales gain to $4.38 billion in revenue.
For the third quarter, eBay is forecasting earnings of $0.65 to $0.67 per share on revenues of $4.3 to $4.4 billion. Thomson Reuters was projecting $0.70 EPS (versus $0.64 a year ago) and a 13.5% revenue jump to $4.42 billion. For all of 2014, eBay is targeting $ 2.95 to $3.00 in EPS and $18.0 to $18.3 billion in revenue. The estimate for 2014 was $2.98 EPS (versus $2.71 EPS in 2013) and a 13.7% revenue gain to $18.24 billion.
eBay’s operating margin was 24.4% in the second quarter. The company spent $1.7 billion in stock buybacks. PayPal generated another strong quarter, adding 4 million users, but eBay’s growth was hampered by its global password reset for all users — and a search algorithm change may be to blame as well.
Now that it has reached a settlement with Carl Icahn, eBay shares have backed off from the post-Icahn pop. Despite the Icahn accord, eBay shares were down almost 8% so far in 2014, coming into this week.
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Shares of eBay were not priced as though the company would have to knock the cover off of the ball to please investors. Shares closed down 11 cents at $50.70, against a 52-week range of $48.06 to $59.70.
The after-hours reaction had shares up 1.2% at $51.35, and the consensus analyst price target was $60.56 before analysts got to make their post-earnings assessments.
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