Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : eBay - Superb Internet Business Model -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Doug Fowler who wrote (2357)	3/24/1999 7:09:00 AM
From: donkeyman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7772

Can anyone confirm this? I was reading EBAY has 129 million shares outstanding. Is this large number of shares the result of that 3-1 split? For example, if someone owned 1000 shares of EBAY at $300.00/share prior to the split, after the split their share value would have dropped to $100.00/share but the number of shares would have been boosted from 1000 to 3000 shares. Is this where the 129 million comes into play? (43 million x 3 = 129 million). How many shares were outstanding before the split? 43 million?? Now it's 129 million?? One other question. Did EBAY have approx. 43 million shares outstanding first when they came on the Nasdaq, last fall? Was there any IPO's involved? I'm trying to compare the situation with the #1 Canadian Internet E-commerce auction company, BID.COM that will appear on the Nasdaq shortly. The last time I looked last week, BID.COM had a PE of under 15. What would be EBAY's PE or market cap? Thanks!!

To: Doug Fowler who wrote (2357)	3/24/1999 3:43:00 PM
From: JF2155	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7772

Doug I bought back into EBAY today on the Yahoo -EBAY merger rumors. Seems AOL needs to up its offer to EBAY . It would be the best thing Yahoo ever did to merge with EBAY -or vice versa. IMHO JIM