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eBay EBAY Return on equity

Return on equity at other companies

Walmart
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Walmart WMT
25.5%+2.7pp
Amazon logo
AmazonAMZN
21.1%-4.1pp
Shopify logo
ShopifySHOP
11.3%-4.8pp
Mercado Libre logo
Mercado LibreMELI
31.3%-17.8pp
PayPal Holdings, Inc. logo
PayPal Holdings, Inc.PYPL
25.1%+2.9pp
DoorDash logo
DoorDashDASH
10%+5.6pp

Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$3.1B+19.5%
Gross profit$2.3B+21.1%
Operating income$611.0M0.0%
Net income$512.0M+2.6%
EPS (diluted)$1.12+6.7%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$4.2B+1.9%
Total debt$8.0B+4.6%
Total equity$4.4B-8.6%
Total assets$17.9B-5.6%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$969.0M+28.3%
CapEx$72.0M-35.1%
Free cash flow$897.0M+39.3%

Valuation

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Market cap$47.9B+29.2%
Enterprise value$51.62B+27.1%
P/E23.5×+5.3×
P/S4.1×+0.5×

Profitability

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Gross margin72%-0.1pp
Operating margin19.6%-2.7pp
Net margin17.6%-2.2pp

Returns & leverage

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Debt / equity1.8×+0.2×
Current ratio1.2×+0.1×

Where this comes from

Calculated from eBay’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: eBay’s 10-Q, filed April 29, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is eBay's return on equity?
eBay (EBAY) reported return on equity of 44.2% in Q1 2026.
How has eBay's return on equity changed year-over-year?
eBay's return on equity increased by 20.4% year-over-year, from 36.7% to 44.2%.
What is the long-term trend for eBay's return on equity?
Over 2 years (2021 to 2025), eBay's return on equity has grown at a -49.5% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 644.4% to 164.2%.
What does return on equity mean?
How much profit the company earns on the money shareholders have invested.
How do you interpret return on equity?
Higher is better, but very high ROE can be manufactured by leverage — a thin equity base inflates the ratio. Read it next to debt-to-equity and ROIC to tell genuine returns from balance-sheet engineering.
How does return on equity compare across companies?
Comparable across peers, with the leverage caveat. Negative or near-zero equity makes ROE meaningless, so it is suppressed there.