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Top Travel Stocks To Consider - March 8th

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Key Points

  • Booking (BKNG), Expedia Group (EXPE), and Travelers Companies (TRV) are MarketBeat's top travel stocks to watch, selected for having the highest dollar trading volume among travel-sector names in recent days.
  • Booking and Expedia are leading online travel agencies with multiple consumer brands (e.g., Booking.com, priceline, Hotels.com, Vrbo), while Travelers is a large property-and-casualty insurer offering commercial and personal insurance products.
  • Travel stocks are inherently cyclical and sensitive to economic conditions, seasonality, fuel and labor costs, and geopolitical or health events, which can drive higher volatility and performance tied to tourism and consumer discretionary spending.
  • MarketBeat previews top five stocks to own in May.

Booking, Expedia Group, and Travelers Companies are the three Travel stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Travel stocks are shares of companies whose primary business is providing travel-related goods and services—airlines, hotels and resorts, cruise lines, car rental companies, online travel agencies, and travel technology providers. They are typically cyclical and sensitive to economic conditions, seasonality, fuel and labor costs, and geopolitical or health events, which can cause higher volatility and performance closely tied to tourism and consumer-discretionary spending. 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.

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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.

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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.

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