Two ways to diversify your Finance holdings

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The Finance sector offers investors a wide variety of options beyond traditional banks. Here are two great picks to expand your holdings in this sector. EBAY INC. $55 is a buy. The company (Nasdaq symbol EBAY; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 626.0 million; Market cap: $34.4 billion; Price to-sales ratio: 3.3; Dividend yield: 1.6%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.ebay.com) operates e-commerce websites, in over 190 countries, where sellers pay fees to auction items or offer them at fixed prices. In June 2021, eBay sold its classified ad business to Norway’s Adevinta ASA (Over-the-counter Pink Sheets symbol ADEVF). It received $2.5 billion in cash and 540 million shares of Adevinta. It later sold 135 million of those shares for $2.3 billion; it now owns 33% of Adevinta. The company also sold 80.01% of its business in South Korea to Shinsegae for $3.0 billion. That created one of South Korea’s leading e-commerce businesses. Meantime, eBay’s revenue in the fourth quarter of 2021 rose 5.4%, to $2.61 billion…