eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) is a publicly listed company headquartered in San Jose, California, United States that owns 2 consumer brands, and has 2 recorded transactions.[1][2]
eBay was written over a weekend in 1995 by a programmer whose first sale was a broken laser pointer, bought deliberately by a collector of broken laser pointers. It pioneered the idea that strangers would trade with each other online if a feedback score stood in for trust.
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acquisitions recorded · 1 since 2015
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divestitures recorded
Read from eBay's latest annual filing[1]. Each line gives the sentence the filing uses, copied word for word.
Additionally, in 2025 we acquired Caramel, an end-to-end online automotive transactions solutions provider.
Headline figures from eBay's annual reports filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, in USD as reported, fiscal years ending 2020–2025. Revenue moved from $8.89bn to $11.1bn, an average of 4.5% a year (calculated).
| Fiscal year ended | Revenue | Operating income | Operating margin | Net income | Total assets | Long-term debt | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $11.1bn | $2.28bn | 20.5% | $2.03bn | $17.6bn | — | 10-K | |
| $10.3bn | $2.32bn | 22.5% | $1.98bn | $19.4bn | — | 10-K | |
| $10.1bn | $1.94bn | 19.2% | $2.77bn | $21.6bn | $6.97bn | 10-K | |
| $9.79bn | $2.35bn | 24.0% | $-1,269,000,000 | $20.9bn | $7.72bn | 10-K | |
| $10.4bn | $2.92bn | 28.1% | $13.6bn | $26.6bn | $7.73bn | 10-K | |
| $8.89bn | $2.64bn | 29.6% | $5.67bn | $19.3bn | $7.74bn | 10-K |
Source: SEC XBRL company facts. A dash means the company did not report that line in a form we could read. Figures for a year can be restated in a later filing; the latest filing's number is shown.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Etsy sold Depop, the secondhand fashion marketplace it had owned since July 2021, to eBay. The purchase price was $1.2 billion; with $200 million of net purchase price adjustments and interest, Etsy received approximately $1.4 billion in cash when the sale completed on 30 July 2026. The deal moved the most youth-focused resale app in Britain and the United States to the company that built online secondhand trading in the first place.
eBay bought Braintree for its PayPal business for about $713 million, mostly in cash, to accelerate PayPal in mobile payments. Venmo came with it: Braintree had bought the peer-to-peer payments app the year before, and eBay's annual report describes Venmo as a Braintree subsidiary. Both moved to PayPal when it separated from eBay in 2015, which is why a purchase made by eBay explains who owns Venmo today.
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) keeps an open register of legal entities. Each entity reports its own parents. We show it as a cross-check on the ownership recorded on this page, which is built from filings.
The documents behind the figures on this page, as listed in the SEC's EDGAR index. Each links to the filing itself.
| Filed | Form | What it declares |
|---|---|---|
| 10-Q | Quarterly report | |
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition | |
| 8-K | Results of a shareholder vote | |
| 8-K | Regulation FD disclosure; Other events | |
| 8-K | Regulation FD disclosure | |
| 10-Q | Quarterly report | |
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition | |
| 8-K | Departure or appointment of directors or officers; Regulation FD disclosure | |
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition | |
| 8-K | Other events | |
| 8-K | Regulation FD disclosure | |
| 10-Q | Quarterly report | |
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition |
eBay owns 2 consumer brands tracked here, including Depop and eBay.
Yes. eBay is headquartered in San Jose, California, United States and was founded in 1995.
eBay is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as EBAY on the NASDAQ.
The most recent completed acquisition recorded here is Depop on 30 July 2026.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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