Group #10

STEP 1 COMPANY INFORMATION

Ticker Exchange Company Address City State Zip code Phone Sub-sector Employees
Name
ebay Nasdaq Ebay 205 Halmiton San Jose California 95125 (408) 376-7400 Internet 34,600
Stock Ave. Software &
Market Service
Source
ADBE Nasdaq Adobe 345 Park Ave. San Jose California 95110 (408) 536-6000 Application 15,706
Stock Software
Market
NVDA Nasdaq NVIDIA 2701 San Santa Clara California 95050 (408) 486-2000 Video 9,200
Stock Corporation Toman Expy Games
Market
PYPL Nasdaq PayPal 2211 North San Jose California 95131 (408) 967-1000 Financial 18,100
Stock First Street
Market
FB Nasdaq Facebook 1 Hacker Way Menlo Park California 94025 (650) 308-7300 Internet 17,048
Stock Software
Market
Ebay

Ebay is an online company that provides sales services to consumers through the internet. The e-commerce company was founded in
1995 by Pierre Omidyar and as of today, it is a multi-billion dollar business. The online company works as a company website in
which people can buy and sell diverse goods globally. Ebay offers a multitude of products from kitchen supplies to Sporting goods.
The major products offered by this company are electronics and all sorts of fashion goods for both men and women. Ebays
competitors are Amazon and Etzy.

Adobe

Adobe is a computer software company which provides its users multimedia and software products. It is best known for its ability of
image editing (best known as Photoshop), viewing, creating and manipulate files in pdf format. The key to its success is that it
provides its users with applications to make our everyday life either in school, work, or even at home easier. Adobe uses special
applications for each of the specialty that it provides. Some of the major products that adobe offers are Acrobat Pro Dc. and Creative
Cloud Membership. Two major competitors of the companies are Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corporation.

NVDA

NVIDIA develops graphics processing units (GPUs) for gaming such as Xbox, PlayStation 4 and gaming PC, as well as system on
chip units (SOCs) for the mobile computing and automotive market, Samsung and Nokia and vehicle technology. The company
provides hardware to manufacturing Companies so that they can develop products such as smartphones and video games. It does not
directly develop video games like Sony or Microsoft but it is a supplier to these Companies. Two of its biggest competitors AMD
(Advanced Micro Devices') and Intel Corporation these are very popular operating system on many computers.
PayPal

PayPal is a company that gives its customers the opportunity to send or receive money, make payments and even set up a management
account. One of its best features that its users say it provides is that it secures your personal information for customers to make their
transactions safety. Two major services that it allows you to do is pay or receive payments. It also allows for you to pay in the
currency that you mostly prefer. Two major competitors of PayPal are apple pay and google wallet; this is because people can easily
just use their phone and connect to their account.

Facebook

Facebook is a company that allows their users with social networking. Through Facebook people from all over the world can interact
with each other. This internet application provide its users with the ability to feel closer and connected with a person that is miles
apart, and also allows to share ideas by updating a status, or share moments by uploading a picture or video. Two major products
offered by this company are profiles and news feed. Two major competitors of Facebook are snapchat and Instagram.

STEP 2 ANALYSIS

STEP 3 ANALYSIS

The prices of the stocks invested in and the DJIA rose and fell almost perfectly. However this dos no mean that they are
interdependent with each other, each stock has its own ups and downs and if they do coincide with the DJIA then it could merely a
coincidence. How the stocks do is purely due to how the company itself is performing and how much people decide to invest in it. The
stock price of a company is determined by the overall worth of the company divided by the shares outstanding however investors see
the DJIA as a benchmark as to how the stock market is going. Therefore if investors see that the DJIA is falling they might sell the
stock they are currently holding which might result in more supply than demand ultimately making the price of the stock fall. Vice-
versa if investors see that the DJIA is rising they might feel that the market is doing good and start buying shares which will
incidentally drive the share price up due to high demand.

PART 4 ANALYSIS

EBay and PayPal were connected on the stock market but decided to split on 2015 due to differences in goals. EBay is an online
business that sells products, whereas PayPal decided to change shifts and try something new. PayPal now focuses more on proving
digital payment services, such as, Xoom transfer payments overseas and peer-to-peer money transfers. This split in companies has
benefited PayPal but not EBay. EBay, just like many other competitors on the internet, offer similar services, which has negatively
impacted them. EBay has lost its uniqueness, which is reflected on its stocks. For instance, on January 28, 2016, a few months after
the split of both companies, the price of eBay stocks has lost nearly 15%. The opening price on January 28 was $26.71, but after the
market closed that day, the stock fell to $22.40, resulting in 13.46% drop. Now, if we focus on eBay stock prices from February 27,
2017 through March 6, 2017, one can see the same recurrence. The opening price for February 27 was $34.05 and when the market
closed on March 6, the stock price fell to $33.64. This 1.20% decrease is not as dramatic as it was a year ago but it seems that the split
between companies and lack of uniqueness is still affecting eBay until today.