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eBay Inc. EBAY

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Price History

$0.790$38.53$76.27$114.01
1998-09 · DCA start$0.790

Time underwater

How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.

-81.3%-54.2%-27.1%0.0%
1998-092026-08 · -10.3%

Worst drawdown: −81%, peaking Dec 2004 and bottoming Feb 2009 — 110 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Invested
$33,600
Value today
$254,082
Return
+656.2%
Months invested
336

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $49,851 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +409.7%.

Lump sum instead — $33,600 all at once in Sep 1998: $4,350,108 (+12846.7%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Jul 2026): $189.74 on $200 invested (-5.1%).

⚠ Price returns only — dividends are not included. This understates the true return of dividend-paying shares, and any comparison against crypto (which pays no dividends) is biased against equities by roughly the dividend yield, compounded.

If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.

Every start month at once

Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€100-a-month DCA started that month. Click a cell to load it in the backtest above. The ringed cell is the all-time-high start — the worst timing scenario.

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Legend:−50%−20%0%+50%+200%+1000%worst timing (ATH)Selected 1998-09: +656.2%

About eBay Inc.

eBay Inc. is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that allows users to buy or view items via retail sales through online marketplaces and websites in 190 markets worldwide. Sales occur either via online auctions or "Buy It Now" instant sales, and the company charges commissions to sellers upon sale. eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in September 1995. In 2021, eBay had approximately 17 million global sellers; in 2023, it reported 132 million annual active buyers worldwide and handled $73 billion in transactions, 48% of which were in the United States. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under consumer discretionary and broadline retail, with a market cap of about $45.5B.

It rates Medium-High Risk at 2.5/5, meaning real but ordinary risk — the kind most mainstream assets carry, with some factors scoring poorly.

What pushes the score up: market / volatility (3.7/5) and leverage / financial (3.0/5).

Scoring well: sector / regulatory at 1.0/5.

Not yet researched: concentration, governance. These are excluded from the score rather than guessed, so the real risk may be higher than what’s shown.

Ratings summarise sourced facts against fixed rules — not investment advice, and no substitute for your own diligence.

Risk Profile

Medium-High Risk(2.5/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility3.7/5 · weight 20%
  • Annualised volatility (3yr)3/525.4
  • Max drawdown from ATH4/581.3
  • Beta vs S&P 5004/51.5
Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%
  • Avg daily $ volume1/5515.4m
  • Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched
Leverage / Financial3.0/5 · weight 20%
  • Debt / equity3/51.3
  • Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)not yet researched
Earnings Quality3.0/5 · weight 15%
  • 3yr EPS volatility3/524.2
Concentrationunrated · weight 10%
  • Largest customer, % of revenuenot yet researched
  • Geographic revenue concentrationnot yet researched
Governanceunrated · weight 10%
  • Board independence %not yet researched
  • Share structurenot yet researched
  • Litigation / audit historynot yet researched
Sector / Regulatory1.0/5 · weight 10%
  • Sector regulatory exposure1/5low

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