China does not own eBay. The company is publicly owned, primarily by U.S.-based institutional shareholders.

What company is eBay owned by?

eBay is a public company owned by its shareholders. Its largest shareholder is asset manager Vanguard, which owns 11.51% of outstanding eBay shares.

Who is the parent company of eBay?

eBay does not have a parent company. The online marketplace is owned by its shareholders.

Who is the largest shareholder of eBay?

Asset manager Vanguard Group is eBay's largest shareholder. Vanguard owns 11.51% of eBay, with large positions in several funds, including the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and the Vanguard 500 Index Fund.

Who Owns eBay? Top eBay Shareholders

By Catherine Brock – Updated Mar 12, 2026 at 3:37 PM EST | Fact-checked by Parker Hicks

Key Points

eBay, founded in 1995 and public since 1998, generates over $10 billion annually.
Institutional investors own 95% of eBay; Vanguard is the largest with 12.86%.
Investing $10,000 in eBay in 1998 would now be worth about $700,911.

Online marketplace eBay (EBAY -1.95%) was an early internet success story. Almost 30 years after going public, eBay generates more than $10 billion in revenue annually. Let's explore how eBay got its start, who owns the company, and how you can add this global business to your investment portfolio.

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NASDAQ: EBAY

eBay

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Today's Change

(-1.95%) $-2.06

Current Price

$103.56

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Market Cap

$47B

Day's Range

$103.02 - $105.30

52wk Range

$78.03 - $119.31

Volume

7.5M

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Gross Margin

72.59%

Dividend Yield

1.43%

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Who is the owner of eBay?

eBay is a public company, owned by institutional, insider, and retail investors. Nearly 95% of eBay stock is owned by about 1,400 institutional investors. Company officers and directors collectively own less than 1% of the online marketplace.

eBay went public in 1998 on the Nasdaq exchange, with an expected share price of $18. Eager investors bid up the price to $53.50 on the first day of trading. If you had invested $10,000 in eBay in 1998, your position would be worth $700,911 today.

Pierre Omidyar founded eBay in 1995 under the name AuctionWeb. The first item he listed for sale was a broken laser printer he sold to Canadian Mark Fraser for $14.83. In the next year, AuctionWeb would facilitate $7.2 million in merchandise transactions.

Also in 1996, AuctionWeb brought on Jeff Skoll as president and opened an office in San Jose, California. The company officially changed its name to eBay in 1997. The leadership team expanded again in 1998 with the hiring of now-famous tech CEO Meg Whitman.

In the ensuing years, eBay would evolve through expansions, acquisitions, partnerships, divestitures, and spin-offs to become the company it is today. Significant milestones included:

Acquisition of peer-to-peer trading site Up4Sale in 1998
Expansion into Germany, Australia, and the U.K. in 1999
Launch of the "Buy it Now" feature in 2000
Acquisition of PayPal (PYPL -1.85%) in 2002
Acquisition of Rent.com in 2004
Acquisition of Skype in 2005
Acquisition of StubHub in 2007
Acquisition of BillMeLater in 2008
Sale of 70% of Skype ownership in 2009
Acquisition of Milo.com in 2010
Sale of Rent.com in 2012
Partnership with Sotheby's to sell fine art in 2014

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Spin-off of PayPal as a separate public company in 2015
Sale of eBay Enterprise, which provided various e-commerce support services to brick-and-mortar businesses
Partnership with Bigcommerce to streamline the product listing process for Bigcommerce merchants
Acquisition of artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics company Expertmaker in 2016
Sale of StubHub in 2020
Launch of non-fungible token (NFT) sales in 2021
Acquisition of NFT marketplace KnownOrigin in 2022
Acquisition of digital authentication tech company Certilogo in 2023

Today, eBay serves 132 million buyers and facilitates some $18 billion in merchandise sales every quarter.

Who are the largest shareholders?

eBay's largest shareholders are institutional asset managers who primarily hold the stock within their mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The top five institutional shareholders of eBay are below.

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Shareholder

An individual or entity that owns a portion of a company's stock, entitling them to a share of its profits and assets.

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Institutional investors

Note that the position values assume a share price of $86. The ownership percentages are derived from 448 million outstanding shares, which were accurate as of December 31, 2025, according to December 2025 filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Vanguard Group: Vanguard owns 57.61 million eBay shares, which have a total value of about $5.2 billion and account for 12.86% of the company. Vanguard is an investment management company that specializes in low-cost funds that cover popular market segments, like the S&P 500. The fund manager offers eBay exposure within its Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund (VTI -0.32%) and Vanguard Mid-Cap Index Fund (VIMSX -0.72%), and others.
BlackRock (NYSE:BLK): BlackRock holds roughly 42 million eBay shares. Its position is worth about $3.91 billion and represents an 9.57% ownership stake. BlackRock is a large investment manager that operates the iShares family of ETFs and other funds. The iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV -0.29%) owns several million shares of eBay .
State Street (NYSE:STT): State Street Corporation's eBay share count totals 22.8 million and is valued at $2.08 billion. This share count is 5.10% of eBay's outstanding stock. State Street is a global asset manager and bank holding company, and the parent of State Street Global Advisors, which operates the SPDR family of ETFs. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY -0.30%) portfolio includes about 6 million shares of eBay.
Ameriprise Financial (NYSE:AMP): Ameriprise owns 12.57 million eBay shares, or 2.80% of the company, with a market value of about $1.14 billion. Ameriprise is a Minnesota-based financial planning and services company.
Geode Capital Management: Geode Capital Management owns 12.44 million shares of eBay. This is 2.78% of the company, worth about $1.13 billion. Geode manages index funds for its parent company, Fidelity, and portfolios for institutional investors.

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Individual/insider shareholders

eBay's largest individual shareholders are company officers. While some of the officer's positions are quite valuable, none account for more than 0.20% of eBay's outstanding shares. The top five insider shareholders are:

Jamie Iannone: Iannone is eBay's president and CEO. He is the former chief operating officer (COO) of Walmart (WMT +1.73%) e-commerce and CEO of Samsclub.com. Iannone also worked at eBay between 2001 and 2009. He owns eBay shares, which is the largest reported position owned by an individual insider. The position accounts for about 461,059 of the company's outstanding shares and is worth $42 million.
Eddie Garcia: Garcia holds the role of senior vice president and chief product officer at eBay. He joined eBay for the second time in 2022 after working for Meta Platforms (META -0.98%) as the head of commerce for the Facebook mobile app. Prior to his Meta tenure, Garcia held various leadership roles at eBay between 2003 and 2014. Garcia owns 123,983 eBay shares worth $6.5 million.
Jordan Douglas Bradley Sweetnam: Sweetnam is the Chief Commercial Officer for eBay and a senior vice president. He holds 68,744 shares of the company's total share count and is valued at $6.3 million.
Cornelius Boone: Boone's title at eBay is senior vice president, chief people officer. Prior to joining eBay, Boone held a similar role at American Airlines (AAL -1.54%). He has also worked for Walmart and employment law firm Littler Mendelson. Boone's eBay portfolio is worth about $5.26 million based on a share count of 57,821.
Julie Loeger: Loeger is senior vice president and chief growth officer for eBay. Loeger's resume includes senior leadership roles at Discover Financial Services (NYSE:DFS) and a tenure in marketing at Anheuser Busch (BUD -1.28%). Loeger's eBay portfolio totals 55,990 shares and is valued at a little more than $5.13 million.

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Who is on the board of directors for eBay?

eBay's board of directors has 11 members:

Board of Directors

A group of elected individuals responsible for overseeing the activities of a company and representing shareholders.

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eBay Board of Directors as of 2026
Name	Role	Inception date
Jamie Iannone	President and CEO of eBay	2020
Perry Traquina	Former CEO of Wellington Management Company LLP	2015
Paul Pressler	Director for eBay and chair for corporate governance and nominating committee	2015
Logan Green	Co-founder of Lyft	2016
Adriane Brown	Managing Partner of Flying Fish Partners	2017
E. Carol Hayles	Former CFO of CIT Group	2020
Mohak Shroff	Senior VP of Engineering at Linkedin	2020
Aparna Chennapragada	Corporative VP of Generative AI at Microsoft	2022
Shripriya Mahesh	Co-founder of Spero Ventures	2023
Zane Rowe	Former CFO of Workday	2024
Bill Nash	Former CEO of CarMax	2024

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About the Author

Catherine grew up in Southern California wearing a lot of black and trying to perfect the art of sarcasm. Prior to joining The Fool as a contract writer, Catherine was climbing the corporate ladder in marketing roles and dabbling in too many side hustles. When she's not writing, she can be found riding a horse in the country or shopping online for clothes.

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Catherine Brock has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Meta Platforms, PayPal, Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF, Walmart, and eBay. The Motley Fool recommends the following options: long January 2027 $42.50 calls on PayPal and short March 2026 $65 calls on PayPal. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

Who Owns eBay? Top eBay Shareholders

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