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Promising Travel Stocks Worth Watching - April 18th

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Key Points

  • MarketBeat flags Booking (BKNG), Travelers Companies (TRV) and Expedia Group (EXPE) as the three travel stocks to watch, based on the highest recent dollar trading volume in the sector.
  • Travel stocks are highly cyclical and sensitive to consumer travel demand, seasonality, fuel and labor costs, and geopolitical or health disruptions, which can produce large swings in revenue and valuation.
  • Company notes: Booking is a leading online reservations platform (Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda), Expedia operates multiple consumer brands including Expedia, Hotels.com and Vrbo, and Travelers is a major property & casualty insurer serving commercial and personal customers.
  • Interested in Booking? Here are five stocks we like better.

Booking, Travelers Companies, and Expedia Group are the three Travel stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Travel stocks are shares of companies whose primary businesses support travel and tourism—airlines, hotels and resorts, cruise lines, online travel agencies, car rental companies, and travel-focused technology or service providers. Investors view them as cyclical and sensitivity-prone equities because their revenues and valuations closely track consumer travel demand, seasonality, fuel and labor costs, and geopolitical or health-related disruptions. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Travel stocks within the last several days.

Booking (BKNG)

Booking Holdings Inc, formerly The Priceline Group Inc., is a provider of travel and restaurant online reservation and related services. The Company, through its online travel companies (OTCs), connects consumers wishing to make travel reservations with providers of travel services across the world. It offers consumers an array of accommodation reservations (including hotels, bed and breakfasts, hostels, apartments, vacation rentals and other properties) through its Booking.com, priceline.com and agoda.com brands.

Read Our Latest Research Report on BKNG

Travelers Companies (TRV)

The Travelers Companies, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides a range of commercial and personal property, and casualty insurance products and services to businesses, government units, associations, and individuals in the United States and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Business Insurance, Bond & Specialty Insurance, and Personal Insurance.

Read Our Latest Research Report on TRV

Expedia Group (EXPE)

Expedia Group, Inc. operates as an online travel company in the United States and internationally. The company operates through B2C, B2B, and trivago segments. Its B2C segment includes Brand Expedia, a full-service online travel brand offers various travel products and services; Hotels.com for lodging accommodations; Vrbo, an online marketplace for the alternative accommodations; Orbitz, Travelocity, Wotif Group, ebookers, CheapTickets, Hotwire.com and CarRentals.com.

Read Our Latest Research Report on EXPE

Further Reading

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