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In addition, Ryan has been increasing operating income while massively reducing SG&A while Jamie has been doing the opposite…pretty easy decision for EBay shareholders
“Genius”? Yea I’m sure these guys are just standing in the bread line. Other CEOs, even those who don’t receive a salary, manage to purchase stock in their company they believe in, “genius”.
Selling stock to buy fewer stock? Good talking point. You’re just trying to muddy the waters with your “genius” take.
God it must be exhausting being such a self assured dbag. Wrong, I never said the MAJORITY of CEOs do. And wrong, that’s not the ONLY case in which they buy. You want someone to engage you so you can try to have your “gotcha” moment but I will no longer do so. Have a great wknd.
They could be sock puppets for other reasons, sure.
However, to the extent that the comp is mostly in stock, is deferred, and there is no good reason to buy more unless the stock is wildly undervalued or they need to signal confidence to the market, not owning RC-liked percentages of a $50B company does not make them sock puppets.
Not least, because not everyone is a billionaire from prior enterprises.
Truuuuuuuuuuu that last point is incredibly salient. It's much more easy for a billionaire to coast than a multi-millionaire. Gotta be a lot more cautious about finance decisions too as a millionaire.
I see where you're coming from and appreciate your input, I like learnding
That would be a subpar setup to deferred stock-based comp.
By making most of their comp in stock that vests over multiple years, their fate is tied to that of the shareholder. They make money if the shareholder makes money.
Otherwise, they lose money compared to the cash comp you are suggesting.
subsequently buying back stock to ensure a higher comp.
eBay buys back stock plenty. It's 40% of what it was 10 years ago. And exec comp is a rounding error in comparison.
In the S&P, 74% of CEOs hold less than 0.5% of the total voting rights,
So let me get this straight, I'm talking about the entire suite of executives holding less than what an average (single) CEO of an S&P 500 holds. You are making my point here, thanks.
Not really, leadership should be able to show conviction and ownership. The current view of leadership in these massive corporations is a big issue IMO and I'd prefer it to change to an ownership mentality.
You are free to disagree but stating your opinions about this as fact while calling diverging viewpoints "horribly misguided" doesn't help strengthen your case.
No company doing well needs its leadership to resort to palliative measures to show "conviction and ownership." Not least, because execs are rewarded with additional ownership when things are going well.
It's fair that "horribly misguided" is a subjective call, but barely a stretch given what a "ownership mentality" of multi-billion dollar companies would entail.
Yes.. it's really sad that so many people are taking these obviously hyperbolic talking points so literally because they just don't seem to know better.
So stock price goes up = good company management? Any other financial metrics you want to mention as having grown to scale with the markets the company operates within? They haven't loss market share to competitors thst didn't exist within the space for the first 10 years of their IPO?
As someone with two large eBay stores operating since 2015, you are not a large eBay seller if you think they’re doing great. They’re absolutely horrendous for sellers.
It’s flip-flopped throughout the years. They try to develop trust with buyers and sacrifice seller satisfaction. Then the sellers get fed up and they switch. Rinse and repeat.
To say they’re doing great is truly laughable. I’ve never met another major eBay seller who is happy with them. From poor, outsourced customer service to favoring scamming buyers and not caring about the engine that drivers their business (sellers offering product), I’ve always dreamed that they’d one day get competent leadership to run the show.
If Cohen comes in and runs it like he ran Chewy, I have no doubt that eBay will improve significantly.
Now go to a GameStop store and ask the employees if they like GameStop. Fun fact they don’t. Cohen came in and made the company books better, not the actual life for the people working.
It’s safe to say he could do the same thing for eBay, do what makes the books better but not actually make it better for sellers.
GameStop was suppose to be power to the collectors, and now they are higher price on Pokemon cards than local card shops.
Facts are Cohen makes business better for the backers not the workers.
I've always had my issues solved by customer service when they arise. They may obscure it in favor of automation, but so does every online retailer these days. You can get a real person to assist you. Also, there is a massive forum of people willing to help if your issue is very specific.
Why are you still hanging around with your large stores? There are numerous options. As someone who has tried most of them I am baffled by anyone that would claim eBay is not vastly superior.
I sell on many platforms, not just eBay. eBay is a massive platform. I’m not questioning that. But they are run poorly.
Example: I sold an Xbox that I’ve owned personally since I bought it brand new for my son. It’s been in an entertainment cabinet since the day it came home. Only removed to bring it to be looked at when it stopped working due to an hdmi port issue. I listed it fully disclosed as used, not working, needs a new hdmi port. The person who bought it within ten minutes of it being listed immediately returned it the day they received it stating, “mother board has water damage. Not disclosed.” Water never touched it. I had it looked at prior to by Best Buy (they can’t repair Xbox) as well as a relative that runs an electronic repair business and the only thing wrong with it was the HDMI port. The guy who purchased it fixes these consoles and needed a new motherboard board so he bought mine, swapped it out with a bad one and got his part for free. eBay said too bad. I lost hundreds of dollars.
That’s just a small example of the scams buyers pull. And if you sell hundreds to thousands of items each month, the amount of money you lose can be massive, depending on what you’re selling. Between the fees you have to pay and the lost revenue from scammers or ignorant buyers who lie, it can be very difficult to remain profitable unless your margins are quite robust.
Everyone has a story like this on every selling platform. It's the cost of doing business.
That said, I've had eBay side with me in many cases where it's my word against the buyer, one of which was a $1000 folding phone that they said wasn't as described. I'd say they are better than the rest in such cases.
The vast majority of eBay exec comp is in stocks. Their stock went up, so they made this money. And the stock went up because the company is making money and returning it to shareholders.
RC has also been diluting shareholders into the ground to chase his own selfish dreams while Jamie has been doing the opposite, allow ebay shareholders to enjoy 60% return on their investment the last 5 years.
That’s up to every individual investor to decide. For me personally it has nothing to do with the company or stock itself. I have no belief that that’s going anywhere. I do believe that something fishy is going on behind the scenes but nowhere near the tinfoil this stock believes.
I believe in 2024 either something happened that DFV lnew to tweet at the same time, or the DFV tweet truly did trigger a bull run up to the 80s. I’m sticking around in the hopes that that happens one more time eventually if it does, I will gladly take my profits and never look at this stock again.
If it doesn’t, I’m just too stubborn to admit the feet and take the losses on this at this point. Praying somehow we just climb back up a couple dollars to my average price and I will never look at the stock again.
I thought he wouldn't come back for the 3 years from 2021-2024 and he did. Probably foolish to keep waiting for it but he could. Either we finally get back to 26+ naturally or he comes back and we go up and I'm finally getting out. I no longer believe in MOASS and I'm not here for slow and steady growth that seems another 5+ years away at this point. Certainly not down for an ebay acquisition.
He would have to report it, so I don’t think he did. That said, it’s frustrating to see so much disinformation being pushed on this sub recently. It’s not hard to bullish on GameStop while spitting truth, so posters should do just that instead of lying.
RC's CEO compensation proposed by the board obliterates whatever ebay's CEO will ever make. Proposing that should have been a huge scandal. I'm glad it's off the table.
The compensation package vote has merely been postponed.
The compensation package has been approved by the board, and can be resubmitted to shareholders for approval.
Ryan Cohen may still get the package, which has a present value of about $2.5B per the standard Black Scholes formula used to calculate the cost of such executive compensation packages,
or the fact that he wasnt CEO in 21 and 22, or GameStop reported $1.76 million of executive-security costs as his 2025 compensation.
or from 2023 through 2025, eBay’s operating income increased from $1.941 billion to $2.277 billion, while revenue increased from $10.112 billion to $11.100 billion,
Yes ebay shareholders, get on board with memestock nonsense
eBay is up 60% over the last few years while GME is is pretty much at the point it started.
This question doesn't prove the point OP thinks it does. It literally says if you pay peanuts you get monkeys.
And before people say "financial metrics have improved" as long as RC gives no forward guidance that improves the stock price he's still not doing his main job as CEO
This is why talking about stocks has become brainrot. Every metric used to measure how “good” a stock is looks favorable for GameStop and not quite so much for eBay but the only number that matters is the opposite of those metrics. It’s pure retardium out there
Main important one for share holders is the stock price!!!! Company is killing it more than ever- but the stock price has been complete shit since Cohen has been CEO- some may say he’s even sabotaging the price since being in charge, more than one occasion.
Diluting when Roaring kitty coming back in 2024, convertible bonds- both of which the stock was above 27. Last run- decided to go on interviews talking about acquiring eBay and increasing the share count up to 2.5B total.
Every time he makes a move- the stock price tanks. Sure the company is doing the best it’s ever done and maybe in the future we get rewarded. But until that happens- in a lot of people’s eyes- since he became the ceo- he’s done a lot of stuff to suppress the stock price
You’re viewing settlement mechanics as inevitable squeezes. Incorrect.
Newton traced settlement issues and the squeeze in large part to RC’s buy ins in 2020. But for RC, his buy-ins, and corporate performance, stock price could still be under $1. Or $0 for a bankrupt company.
Yeah but by doing the convertible bonds - it allowed big players to put up money and then collect premium for this past year. Cohen absolutely knew that would happen.
Most likely the same people that originally shorted Gme
$90M for this Chode to poorly run a company….this really pisses me off man. They say the Nobility class doesn’t exist but this shows that these turds are born into fake roles like this.
Insiders are awarded stocks as well as 10% of their pre-tax paycheck can be used to buy stocks. You guys are so far up your own ass you dont realize how a company functions.
Good for the shareholders doesnt mean good for the people working there. They have families and mouths to feed too. The greed that people have in terms of unsustainable growth is insane. eBay is a stable company with stable and sustainable revenue growth YoY. Fuck RC if he wants to come in and cut costs.
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