Investors liked some of what they heard with eBay's (NASDAQ: EBAY) latest quarterly earnings release. A few of the e-commerce veteran's numbers were mildly encouraging -- at least, enough to help the stock outperform the S&P 500 index since they were published at the end of July.

One big challenge is that the company is hardly the only e-commerce operator battling to earn your consumer dollar. Will it do well in that endless fight? Let's explore where eBay is going from here -- and whether it's worthy of inclusion in your stock portfolio.

In its second quarter, eBay did a decent job of squeezing out bottom-line growth from sales that only inched higher.

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