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Fly News Breaks for April 13, 2018
EBAY
Apr 13, 2018 | 08:11 EDT
Monness Crespi transferred eBay coverage to Jim Chartier who upgraded shares to Buy from Neutral and established a $48 price target. Chartier said eBay's structured data initiatives have meaningfully improved the eBay marketplace experience for buyers and sellers, resulting in gross merchandise value inflecting to up 7% in Q4 2017 from up 1% in Q3 2016. The analyst expects high single digit sales or better going forward driven by marketplace acceleration and solid growth from StubHub and Classifieds, combined with continued share repurchases, which will grow earnings in the low double digits or mid-teens.