As Winter approaches in much of the country, now is a great time to begin purchasing some used paperbacks for some nice leisure reading in front of the fire. Stumped where to begin? Checkout Listology’s 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.
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Less than three weeks ago I wrote a little article on the potential for a very nice return if you wanted to play the market with eBay through the end of the year for a 20-25% return. At that point the stock was at $26.59, giving us a target sell price of $31.92 to $33.23. The stock currently rests at $30.21 in today’s trading, or a 13.6% increase. Over the past three years, the stock has done incredibly well from October-December. In 2003 is went up 17 percent, 25 percent in 2004, and around 10 percent in 2005.
Helping our cause is yesterday’s announcement by the company that profit jumped 10 percent in the third-quarter. According to the article, “Ms. Whitman said she was ‘cautiously optimistic’ that the effort, which included an increase in fees charged to large sellers who put up storefronts on eBay, ‘will help rebalance our marketplace.’” Nevertheless, it’s Paypal who is making the strongest case for Whitman’s eBay, outperforming the auction site showing no signs of Google Checkout taking a significant portion of its market share.
