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Top Travel Stocks To Watch Today - August 9th

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Key Points

  • Travel Stocks to Watch: Costco Wholesale, Expedia Group, Alibaba Group, SoFi Technologies, Booking, Affirm, and BigBear.ai are highlighted as key travel stocks currently attracting attention due to their high trading volumes.
  • Costco Wholesale (COST) has shown resilience with a market capitalization of $435.05 billion, a 52-week trading range between $837.63 and $1,078.23, and it recently traded at $980.98.
  • Expedia Group (EXPE) experienced a significant trading surge, reaching $195.26 with a market cap of $24.82 billion and notable volume of 6,966,447 shares on a day when its average was only 1,580,907.
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Costco Wholesale, Expedia Group, Alibaba Group, SoFi Technologies, Booking, Affirm, and BigBear.ai are the seven Travel stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Travel stocks are shares of publicly traded companies whose primary business involves facilitating or providing travel and tourism services—such as airlines, hotel chains, cruise lines, car-rental firms, and online booking platforms. Investors often monitor these stocks as a barometer for consumer confidence and global economic health, since travel demand typically rises with stronger economies and disposable incomes. As a group, travel stocks can be more sensitive to factors like fuel prices, geopolitical events, health crises, and seasonal demand fluctuations. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Travel stocks within the last several days.

Costco Wholesale (COST)

Costco Wholesale Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the operation of membership warehouses in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Japan, the United Kingdom, Korea, Australia, Taiwan, China, Spain, France, Iceland, New Zealand, and Sweden. The company offers branded and private-label products in a range of merchandise categories.

Shares of COST stock traded up $3.53 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $980.98. 2,188,224 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 2,172,175. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of $977.93 and a 200 day simple moving average of $984.85. The company has a current ratio of 1.02, a quick ratio of 0.52 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.21. Costco Wholesale has a 52-week low of $837.63 and a 52-week high of $1,078.23. The stock has a market capitalization of $435.05 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 55.64, a P/E/G ratio of 6.08 and a beta of 0.96.

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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.

NASDAQ:EXPE traded up $7.65 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $195.26. The stock had a trading volume of 6,966,447 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,580,907. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of $176.65 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $172.70. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.92, a current ratio of 0.73 and a quick ratio of 0.73. Expedia Group has a one year low of $125.50 and a one year high of $213.00. The firm has a market capitalization of $24.82 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 23.93, a P/E/G ratio of 0.89 and a beta of 1.61.

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Alibaba Group (BABA)

Alibaba Group Holding Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides technology infrastructure and marketing reach to help merchants, brands, retailers, and other businesses to engage with their users and customers in the People's Republic of China and internationally. The company operates through seven segments: China Commerce, International Commerce, Local Consumer Services, Cainiao, Cloud, Digital Media and Entertainment, and Innovation Initiatives and Others.

NYSE:BABA traded down $0.62 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $120.34. The stock had a trading volume of 9,749,766 shares, compared to its average volume of 13,689,386. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of $115.78 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $119.17. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.19, a current ratio of 1.55 and a quick ratio of 1.55. Alibaba Group has a one year low of $77.74 and a one year high of $148.43. The firm has a market capitalization of $287.05 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 16.15, a P/E/G ratio of 1.78 and a beta of 0.17.

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SoFi Technologies (SOFI)

SoFi Technologies, Inc. provides various financial services in the United States, Latin America, and Canada. It operates through three segments: Lending, Technology Platform, and Financial Services. The company offers lending and financial services and products that allows its members to borrow, save, spend, invest, and protect money.

NASDAQ:SOFI traded up $0.02 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $22.10. The stock had a trading volume of 49,006,309 shares, compared to its average volume of 76,268,488. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of $18.45 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $15.05. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.46, a current ratio of 0.80 and a quick ratio of 0.14. SoFi Technologies has a one year low of $6.47 and a one year high of $25.11. The firm has a market capitalization of $24.43 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 46.04, a P/E/G ratio of 2.74 and a beta of 1.93.

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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.

Shares of NASDAQ BKNG traded down $26.19 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $5,405.91. 186,426 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 199,192. Booking has a 52 week low of $3,394.85 and a 52 week high of $5,839.41. The stock has a market capitalization of $175.21 billion, a PE ratio of 37.60, a PEG ratio of 1.57 and a beta of 1.41. The company's 50 day moving average price is $5,569.71 and its 200 day moving average price is $5,095.71.

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Affirm (AFRM)

Affirm Holdings, Inc. operates a platform for digital and mobile-first commerce in the United States, Canada, and internationally. The company's platform includes point-of-sale payment solution for consumers, merchant commerce solutions, and a consumer-focused app. Its commerce platform, agreements with originating banks, and capital markets partners enables consumers to pay for a purchase over time with terms ranging up to 60 months.

Shares of AFRM stock traded down $6.63 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $72.33. The stock had a trading volume of 9,318,556 shares, compared to its average volume of 5,313,754. Affirm has a 52-week low of $24.67 and a 52-week high of $82.53. The company has a current ratio of 11.47, a quick ratio of 11.47 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.55. The stock's 50-day moving average price is $65.69 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $57.73. The firm has a market capitalization of $23.33 billion, a PE ratio of -344.43, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.92 and a beta of 3.63.

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BigBear.ai (BBAI)

BigBear.ai Holdings, Inc. provides artificial intelligence-powered decision intelligence solutions. It offers national security, supply chain management, and digital identity and biometrics solutions. The company also provides data ingestion, data enrichment, data processing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, predictive analytics, and predictive visualization solutions and services.

NYSE:BBAI traded up $0.52 during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting $7.13. 86,752,397 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 93,335,896. The company has a market cap of $2.08 billion, a PE ratio of -9.14 and a beta of 3.44. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.55, a current ratio of 1.66 and a quick ratio of 1.66. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $6.00 and a 200 day moving average price of $4.81. BigBear.ai has a one year low of $1.20 and a one year high of $10.36.

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