NASDAQ:BKNG - Booking Stock Price, Forecast & News

Booking trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "BKNG."

Booking Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:BKNG) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November, 7th. The business services provider reported $45.36 EPS for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $44.87 by $0.49. The business services provider earned $5.04 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $5.07 billion. Booking had a return on equity of 67.17% and a net margin of 29.05%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 3.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm earned $37.78 earnings per share. View Booking's Earnings History.

Booking is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 26th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Booking.

Booking updated its fourth quarter 2019 After-Hours earnings guidance on Monday, November, 25th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $21.50-22.00 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $23.49. The company issued revenue guidance of $$3.196935-3.261195 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $$3.4 billion.

28 brokerages have issued 1 year target prices for Booking's shares. Their forecasts range from $1,745.02 to $2,400.00. On average, they anticipate Booking's share price to reach $2,126.52 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 7.7% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Booking.

28 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Booking in the last year. There are currently 15 hold ratings, 12 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Booking.

News articles about BKNG stock have trended neutral this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group identifies negative and positive news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Booking earned a media sentiment score of 0.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news headlines about the business services provider a news buzz of 2.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is very unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Booking.

Booking saw a decline in short interest during the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 929,200 shares, a decline of 13.2% from the January 15th total of 1,070,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 358,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.6 days. Currently, 2.2% of the company's stock are sold short. View Booking's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Booking investors own include Netflix (NFLX), Alphabet (GOOG), Tesla (TSLA), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Alibaba Group (BABA), Visa (V), NVIDIA (NVDA), Baidu (BIDU), Walt Disney (DIS) and Mastercard (MA).

Booking's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (3.20%), Alliancebernstein L.P. (1.48%), Investec Asset Management LTD (1.34%), Edgewood Management LLC (0.93%), Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc. (0.74%) and Artisan Partners Limited Partnership (0.64%). Company insiders that own Booking stock include Gillian Tans, Jeffrey E Epstein and Peter J Millones. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Booking.

BKNG stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Alliancebernstein L.P., Bessemer Group Inc., Standard Life Aberdeen plc, Boston Partners, Maverick Capital Ltd., Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc., Melvin Capital Management LP and TD Asset Management Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Booking company stock in the last year include Gillian Tans and Jeffrey E Epstein. View Insider Buying and Selling for Booking.

BKNG stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., Prudential Financial Inc., Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc., Investec Asset Management LTD, First Eagle Investment Management LLC, First Trust Advisors LP, AQR Capital Management LLC and Madison Asset Management LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Booking.

Shares of BKNG can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of BKNG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $1,973.98.

Booking has a market capitalization of $82.63 billion and generates $14.53 billion in revenue each year. The business services provider earns $4.00 billion in net income (profit) each year or $92.59 on an earnings per share basis. Booking employs 24,500 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Booking.

The official website for Booking is http://www.bookingholdings.com/.

Booking's mailing address is 800 CONNECTICUT AVENUE, NORWALK CT, 06854. The business services provider can be reached via phone at 203-299-8000 or via email at [email protected]