NASDAQ:BKNG - Booking Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Booking Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:BKNG) released its earnings results on Thursday, November, 7th. The business services provider reported $45.36 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates 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 net margin of 29.05% and a return on equity of 67.17%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 3.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $37.78 EPS. 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 issued an update on its fourth quarter 2019 After-Hours earnings guidance on Monday, November, 25th. The company provided 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 12 month price targets for Booking's shares. Their forecasts range from $1,745.02 to $2,400.00. On average, they expect Booking's stock price to reach $2,126.52 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 7.6% 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.

Media headlines about BKNG stock have been trending somewhat negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Booking earned a news impact score of -1.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news headlines about the business services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Booking.

Booking saw a decrease in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 929,200 shares, a decrease of 13.2% from the January 15th total of 1,070,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 358,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.6 days. Currently, 2.2% of the shares of the 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 investors include FMR LLC (3.20%), Capital International Investors (1.57%), Alliancebernstein L.P. (1.48%), Investec Asset Management LTD (1.34%), Capital Research Global Investors (1.00%) and Edgewood Management LLC (0.93%). 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 acquired 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 $1,976.28.

Booking has a market capitalization of $82.72 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]