Expedia Company Profile (NASDAQ:EXPE)

Expedia trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "EXPE."

Expedia announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, July 28th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, August 24th will be given a dividend of $0.30 per share on Thursday, September 14th. This represents a $1.20 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.84%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, August 22nd. This is a boost from Expedia's previous quarterly dividend of $0.28. View Expedia's Dividend History.

Expedia, Inc. (NASDAQ:EXPE) issued its earnings results on Thursday, July, 27th. The company reported $0.89 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.94 by $0.05. The business had revenue of $2.59 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.55 billion. Expedia had a return on equity of 10.98% and a net margin of 3.49%. Expedia's revenue was up 17.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $0.83 earnings per share. View Expedia's Earnings History.

Expedia is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October, 26th 2017. View Earnings Estimates for Expedia.

25 brokerages have issued 12-month target prices for Expedia's shares. Their forecasts range from $125.00 to $190.00. On average, they expect Expedia's share price to reach $160.48 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Expedia.

Here are some recent quotes from research analysts about Expedia stock:

• 1. According to Zacks Investment Research, "Expedia Inc., is one of the leading online travel companies in the world. The company's second-quarter 2017 results beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate on both earnings and revenues. Year-to-date, the stock has underperformed the Zacks characterized Electronic Commerce industry. The company's agency business looks good, which is no doubt benefiting from the ETP initiative. However, we think that the increased investments in the business, increasing competition across geographies and discounts offered by larger chain hotels can make margin expansion difficult." (8/2/2017)
• 2. Cantor Fitzgerald analysts commented, "HomeAway positioned for strong growth. We expect bookings growth to remain strong as this business makes progress in its transition to an online transaction-based model, driven by online bookings vs. subscription. In its pursuit of this, we believe that HomeAway is spending increasing ad dollars on variable ad channels. Search query interest through May rose 1,700bps Q/ Q in the US and ~100bps WW. Total unique visitors to HomeAway’s US site increased 11% in April vs. 9% in 1Q17 (comScore). Trivago’s momentum likely to continue. The growth drivers here include strength in both volume and pricing, with the former driven by Trivago’s focus on heavy branded advertising coupled with spending on variable ad channels. Changes to landing page requirements in 4Q16 are likely to continue to drive strong unit pricing short term and yield improved consumer experience LT, in our view." (5/31/2017)
• 3. Benchmark Co. analysts commented, "We still think Expedia has headroom to improve attach and conversion rates, particularly with Orbitz’ air exposure, but expected improvements may not be meaningful until after Expedia has fully migrated the Orbitz tech stack to the cloud, allowing for further optimization. Trivago posted strong results, up 62.5% y/y and $37 million ahead of consensus, but that was partially offset by a $13 million shortfall at HomeAway, which still posted 30% y/y standalone growth. While we now project Trivago revenue growth could remain north of 50%, we expect growth at HomeAway will moderate to 19.5% in 2017 before potentially reaccelerating as investment spend is monetized in 2018." (4/28/2017)

Expedia saw a increase in short interest in the month of July. As of July 14th, there was short interest totalling 14,160,475 shares, an increase of 9.5% from the June 30th total of 12,928,727 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,190,252 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 11.9 days. Currently, 11.7% of the company's shares are sold short.

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Expedia's management team includes the folowing people:

• Barry Diller, Chairman of the Board, Senior Executive
• Dara Khosrowshahi, President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
• Victor A. Kaufman, Vice Chairman of the Board
• Mark D. Okerstrom, Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President - Operations
• Robert J. Dzielak, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary
• Lance A. Soliday CPA, Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer, Controller
• Pamela L. Coe, Director
• John C. Malone, Director
• Christopher W. Shean, Director
• Alexander Von Furstenberg, Director

Expedia's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (7.94%), BlackRock Inc. (5.27%), State Street Corp (3.22%), Jennison Associates LLC (2.64%), FMR LLC (1.64%) and Steadfast Capital Management LP (1.35%). Company insiders that own Expedia stock include Craig A Jacobson, Dara Khosrowshahi, Lance A Soliday, Mark D Okerstrom, Robert J Dzielak, Susan C Athey and Victor Kaufman. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Expedia.

Expedia's stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Renaissance Technologies LLC, Ameriprise Financial Inc., Winslow Capital Management LLC, Quantitative Investment Management LLC, Bank of Montreal Can, Falcon Edge Capital LP, Harris Associates L P and Crosslink Capital Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Expedia stock in the last year include Craig A Jacobson, Dara Khosrowshahi, Lance A Soliday, Mark D Okerstrom, Robert J Dzielak, Susan C Athey and Victor Kaufman. View Insider Buying and Selling for Expedia.

Expedia's stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Balyasny Asset Management LLC, Jennison Associates LLC, Fred Alger Management Inc., Artisan Partners Limited Partnership, Vanguard Group Inc., American Century Companies Inc., Steadfast Capital Management LP and Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Expedia.

Shares of Expedia can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of Expedia stock can currently be purchased for approximately $143.71.