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How Might Booking.com Further Help In Priceline’s Growth In The Vacation Rental Segment?
According to Priceline Group’s interim CEO, Jeffery Boyd, Booking.com might be a more preferable choice for users for alternative accommodation bookings (such as vacation rentals) than Expedia’s HomeAway because of the latter’s ...
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How Is The U.S. Travel Industry Faring Currently?
According to the U.S. Travel Association’s Travel Trends Index report, domestic leisure travel in the U.S. is at its lowest growth level since December 2012. This might imply lower domestic travel spending as is evident by the year-on-year decl...
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Why Did Priceline Discontinue Its ‘Name Your Own Price’ Option For Flight Bookings?
On September 1st, Priceline.com discontinued its Name Your Own Price model for flight bookings. Under the aforementioned model, travelers could submit their desired price for a flight and only after a carrier accepted the bid, would the traveler ...
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How Is Priceline’s Revenue Growth Trending?
Priceline’s growth story seems to continue despite macroeconomic problems. All of its divisions seem to be soaring forward and its main growth driver, booking.com, is still ruling the accommodation booking space. In Q2 2016, Priceline’...
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How Is Priceline’s Hotels Division Expected To Trend?
Priceline’s hotels division contributes around 90% of its revenues and around 85% of our stock price valuation for the company. Priceline’s booking.com is the current leader globally in online accommodation booking. In line with previ...
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Priceline’s Robust Q2 2016 Suggests That The Company’s Growth Story Is Expected To Continue
Priceline continued with its solid growth trend in the Q2 2016, despite having a significant exposure to Europe . While the company witnessed reduced demands in regions like France, Belgium, and Turkey, however, there wasn’t a sharp decline...
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Priceline’s Q2 2016 Earnings Preview
Company’s Guidance for Q2 2016 Room night bookings Y-o-Y growth: 15% to 22%. Gross travel bookings Y-o-Y growth: 11% to 18% (on a constant currency basis). Revenue Y-o-Y Growth: 7% to 14%. Non-GAAP net income per diluted share: $11...
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How Fast Are Priceline’s Advertising Revenues Growing?
Advertising and media contributes to only 7% of Priceline’s revenue. However, the segment is growing solidly post Priceline’s Kayak (2013) and OpenTable (2014) acquisitions. Prior to Kayak’s acquisition (2013), advertising accounted f...
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What Might Be The Long-Term Impacts Of Brexit On The Online Travel Agencies?
A while back we explored the possible short-term implications of Brexit on the online travel companies. We observed that other than the stock market’s knee jerk reactions and the possibility of the pound losing value, travel might not be ma...
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Which Will Be The Most Important Segment To Fuel Priceline’s Future Growth?
The hotel Booking segment is the most important segment for Priceline’s future revenue growth contributing to above 90%. Priceline’s Booking.com is the current leader globally in online accommodation booking. In Q1 2016, Booking.co...
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What Has Been The Immediate Impact Of The Brexit Decision On The Online Travel Companies?
Stock Price Declines Since June 23rd, stocks of all the major online travel agencies (OTAs) have declined significantly. TripAdvisor and Expedia stocks have both dipped by almost 10%, whereas Priceline stock had fallen by ~14%. The main reaso...
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Why Might TripAdvisor Be An Attractive Acquisition Target For Priceline?
Priceline and Expedia have always been fierce rivals when it comes to gaining a bigger portion of the online travel market. These two OTAs with market capitalization of ~66 billion and $16 billion, respectively, have acquired most of the heavywei...
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Who Relies More On Debt: Priceline Or Expedia?
The analysis reveals that both the online travel giants are reliant on debt to a significant extent. Priceline is comparatively somewhat more reliant on Debt for generating assets and financing growth than Expedia. This makes Priceline’s ea...
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What Percentage of Priceline’s Stock Price Can Be Attributed To Growth?
In this analysis, we quantify the percentage of Priceline’s stock that can be attributed to growth. We know that a stock’s valuation can be highly influenced by future expectations of earnings growth. However, in theory, if a company sees no gro...
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What Is Troubling Priceline Right Now?
Priceline’s merchant model is causing pain to the company right now. Priceline’s domestic business is being hampered by its diminishing opaque business called ‘Name your own price’ model. In the United States, Priceline en...
