Tuesday, September 30, 2014 5:56 PM EDT
eBay has announced that it plans to spin off PayPal in 2015, seemingly following the suggestion of hedge fund billionaire Carl C. Icahn, only 6 short months after rejecting the idea out of hand.
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Ebay To Spin Off PayPal, Taking Carl Icahn's Advice
The spinoff is favorable to PayPal. With the adjustment in management team, PayPal now has American Express’s former executive Dan Schulman, who was specializing in the Enterprise Growth area of AmEx as the company’s Chief Executive Officer. This would allow PayPal to better arrange its strategic roadmap and focus on its payment solutions and products to tackle this "app era", including the appearance of a recent competitor "bitcoin". From eBay’s side, along with Alibaba's IPO, this spinoff action could give eBay the opportunity to center on the new generation competition locally and internationally and potentially push growth in the long term. One thing we cannot ignore is that this action could bring loss to eBay in the short term. PayPal is eBay's payment arm and made 40.30% of eBay's total net revenue in fiscal year 2013. The left of PayPal not only means the cut in revenue but also loss of partnerships eBay used to build with its PayPal services. We still need to watch eBay’s moves in the next few months to decide how this would affect eBay’s overall business sketch.
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The after-sale experience is also important. Customers could be attracted to try new products because of numberless incentives, they might stay or leave. They also have the choice to recommend the product they tested to their families and friends. The quality of the product and the postpurchase experience will increase the likelihood of ongoing relationships between shoppers and companies as well as discussions of products among peers.
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A company’s intrinsic value is estimated through a fundamental analysis, both quantitative and qualitative. All of the parts mentioned before are not enough to form a fundamental valuation, therefore those evidences are insufficient to interpret Yahoo’s intrinsic value. Alibaba’s IPO is good news for its major shareholder Yahoo, but this is only a small portion of Yahoo’s overall business. The picture I see is critical challenges ahead Yahoo would need to manage.
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