EBAY

As the post-Christmas shopping season opens, we look at one of the most interesting growth stocks in the retail industry. This stock began by allowing shoppers to buy and sell items from the comfort of their home computers, but it has since aggressively added to the array of online transactions it handles.

EBAY INC. (Nasdaq symbol EBAY; www.ebay.com) operates the world’s …read more »

EBAY INC. $30 (Nasdaq symbol EBAY; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 1.3 billion; Market cap: $39.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.6; No dividends paid; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.ebay.com) operates the world’s largest online auction website, with over 99 million users in 39 countries. The company charges users fees to list and sell their goods through its websites.

The company …read more »

EBAY INC. $34 (Nasdaq symbol EBAY; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 1.3 billion; Market cap: $44.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 4.7; No dividends paid; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.ebay.com) is paying an undisclosed sum for privately held where.com, which gives mobile-phone users listings for nearby restaurants and shops. That allows advertisers to offer special deals to people who are …read more »

Visa has been around since the 1960s, but only recently became a publicly traded company. eBay started up in 1995. Because of its unique business model, the company was able to avoid the implosion of the dot-com bubble in the early 2000s.

We feel both companies offer an attractive way for investors to add to their Finance-sector holdings without exposing themselves …read more »