Expedia Group (EXPE) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

Expedia Group, Inc. is an online travel company that connects travelers with a broad range of travel products and services. Its offerings include hotel and vacation-rental accommodations, flights, car rentals, cruises, activities, and travel packages. The company serves consumers through its online travel brands and also provides technology, distribution, and marketing solutions to travel suppliers and other business partners.

Expedia Group’s consumer brands include Expedia, Hotels.com, Vrbo, Orbitz, Travelocity, Wotif, ebookers, CheapTickets, Abritel, and FeWo-direkt, among others. Its portfolio supports travel bookings across numerous markets and languages, with operations serving customers and suppliers in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and other international regions. Vrbo focuses primarily on alternative accommodations, while Expedia and Hotels.com offer broader lodging and travel-booking services.

Expedia began as a division of Microsoft in the 1990s and became an independent public company in 1999. The company adopted the Expedia Group name in 2018 to reflect its broader collection of travel brands and businesses. Ariane Gorin serves as Expedia Group’s chief executive officer, having assumed the role in 2024.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: $286.11 to $295.73
• 50-Day Range: $258.86 to $339.13
• 52-Week Range: $185.34 to $342.00
• Volume: 1.09 million shs
• Average Volume: 2.01 million shs
• Market Capitalization: $34.69 billion
• P/E Ratio: 18.02
• Dividend Yield: 0.66%
• Price Target: $316.37
• Consensus Rating: Hold

Expedia Group Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

Expedia Group scored higher than 94% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 85th out of 483 stocks in the consumer discretionary sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 2.9 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Hold

Consensus Rating

Expedia Group has received a consensus rating of Hold. The company's average rating score is 2.44, and is based on no strong buy ratings, 18 buy ratings, 20 hold ratings, and 1 sell rating.

Upside/Downside

The consensus price target for Expedia Group is close to its current price, suggesting limited near-term upside or downside.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

Expedia Group has been the subject of 20 research reports in the past 90 days, demonstrating strong analyst interest in this stock.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 4.4 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: 17.27%

Earnings Growth

Earnings for Expedia Group are expected to grow by 17.27% in the coming year, from $17.26 to $20.24 per share.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of Expedia Group is 18.14, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 38.75.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of Expedia Group is 18.14, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Consumer Discretionary sector average P/E ratio of about 45.24.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

Expedia Group has a PEG Ratio of 0.69. PEG Ratios below 1 indicate that a company could be undervalued.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

Expedia Group has a P/B Ratio of 13.99. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: 2.0 / 5
• Short Interest Level: Bearish

Percentage of Shares Shorted

6.96% of the float of Expedia Group has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

Expedia Group has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 2.8, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in Expedia Group has recently increased by 25.88%, indicating that investor sentiment is decreasing significantly.

Dividend

• Score: 1.7 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Weak

Dividend Yield

Expedia Group has a dividend yield of 0.67%, which is in the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.

Dividend Growth

Expedia Group does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

Dividend Coverage

The dividend payout ratio of Expedia Group is 11.97%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.

Dividend Sustainability

Based on earnings estimates, Expedia Group will have a dividend payout ratio of 9.49% next year. This indicates that Expedia Group will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.

News and Social Media

• Score: 4.3 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.87

News Sentiment

Expedia Group has a news sentiment score of 0.87. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a higher news sentiment than the 0.42 average news sentiment score of Consumer Discretionary companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 16 news articles for Expedia Group this week, compared to 8 articles on an average week.

Search Interest

38 people have searched for EXPE on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 27% compared to the previous 30 days.

MarketBeat Follows

2 people have added Expedia Group to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 1.6 / 5
• Insider Trading: Selling Shares

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, Expedia Group insiders have sold more of their company's stock than they have bought. Specifically, they have bought $0.00 in company stock and sold $3,881,995.00 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

5.20% of the stock of Expedia Group is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

90.76% of the stock of Expedia Group is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

Company Calendar

• Last Earnings: 8/05/2026
• Record date for 9/17 Dividend: 8/27/2026
• Ex-Dividend for 9/17 Dividend: 8/27/2026
• Dividend Payable: 9/17/2026
• Today: 10/23/2026
• Next Earnings (Confirmed): 11/04/2026
• Fiscal Year End: 12/31/2026

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: NASDAQ
• Sector: Consumer Discretionary
• Industry: Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure
• Sub-Industry: Hotels, Resorts & Cruise Lines
• Current Symbol: NASDAQ:EXPE
• CIK: 1324424
• Web: www.expediagroup.com
• Phone: (206) 481-7200
• Fax: 425-564-7240
• Employees: 16,000
• Year Founded: 1996

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for Expedia Group: $316.37
• High Price Target: $430.00
• Low Price Target: $225.00
• Potential Upside/Downside: +9.2%
• Consensus Rating: Hold
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.44
• Research Coverage: 39 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): $16.04
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 18.09
• Forward P/E Ratio: 16.79
• P/E Growth: 0.69
• Net Income: $1.29 billion
• Net Margins: 12.97%
• Pretax Margin: 15.52%
• Return on Equity: 87.32%
• Return on Assets: 7.85%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 2.21
• Current Ratio: 0.80
• Quick Ratio: 0.80

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: $14.73 billion
• Price / Sales: 2.36
• Cash Flow: $24.89 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 11.64
• Book Value: $20.79 per share
• Price / Book: 13.94

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 120,020,000
• Free Float: 113,778,000
• Market Cap: $34.78 billion
• Optionable: Optionable
• Beta: 1.36