eBay caught the Yahoo! bug today as its share price shed nearly 2.5% of its value, or 66 cents to close at $25.93 on a day where the Nasdaq gained more than 1.8%.
In the past 15 minutes eBay sank more than 4% and is now trading below $25.
At 5:00 P.M. Sarah Gilbert will start Live Blogging eBay's webcast of Q2 results. Things to watch in Q2 earnings report:
- Core listings growth - this has been one of major concerns of eBay investors - and the shift towards SIF (store inventory format)
- PayPal vs. Google (GOOG) Checkout
- Recent management shakeup comments, especially Jordan's departure
- Impact of partnership with Yahoo (YHOO) regarding both search and PayPal
- Statements about eBay Express going forward
- Consensus estimates are for average earnings of 24 cents per share on revenue of $1.41 billion. The estimates exclude stock options expenses.
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