While management's discussion of business conditions on the earnings call will mostly determine the sustainability of the immediate price change and future earnings expectations, it's worth having a handicapping insight into the odds of a positive EPS surprise. This online booking service is expected to post quarterly earnings of $39.22 per share in its upcoming report, which represents a year-over-year change of +4.3%. The consensus EPS estimate for the quarter has been revised 0.02% lower over the last 30 ...

Intensifying Competition In this regard, Booking Holdings' subsidiary, Priceline, partnered with Cover Genius to enhance travelers' flights, hotels, rental cars and package booking experiences by providing them with customer-centric travel protection. Booking Holdings is expected to gain solid popularity among U.S. travelers on the back of this latest partnership. Per a Statista report, the global travel and tourism market is expected to hit $927.3 billion in 2024 and reach $1.06 trillion by 2028, indicatin ...

Meanwhile, the demand for airplane tickets among Americans has been setting new records in recent weeks, and the gaming wins of Last Vegas Strip casinos surged 3.7% in May versus the same period a year earlier to $742.5 million. With inflation slowing radically but unemployment remaining relatively low on a historical basis, the top-and-bottom line growth of many U.S. entertainment firms is likely to remain quite strong going forward. Here are three must-buy entertainment stocks for investors who want to ex ...

Booking Holdings (BKNG) has recently been on Zacks.com's list of the most searched stocks. Therefore, you might want to consider some of the key factors that could influence the stock's performance in the near future. Over the past month, shares of this online booking service have returned +0.4%, compared to the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +2.1% change. During this period, the Zacks Internet - Commerce industry, which Booking Holdings falls in, has gained 2.6%. The key question now is: What could be the stock ...

The collection provides Visa cardholders with exclusive access to restaurant reservations and events at numerous local restaurants in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Moreover, it will enable BKNG to capitalize on the solid growth opportunity present in the restaurant reservations software market, which, per a Market Research Intellect report, is expected to hit $24.5 billion by 2031, witnessing a CAGR of 10.13% between 2024 and 2031. TripAdvisor is gaining solid momentum across its restaurant booking ...

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NEW YORK, July 17, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Priceline, the iconic innovator of online travel, and Cover Genius, the insurtech for embedded protection, have announced a new North American partnership to introduce enhanced travel protection for flights, hotels, rental cars and packages booked with Priceline. "We're excited to collaborate with Priceline to bring our customer-centric protection to their travelers," said Angus McDonald, CEO and Co-founder of Cover Genius. "We avoid 'off-the-shelf' offerings and ...

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For the full year, the Zacks Consensus Estimates project earnings of $178.55 per share and a revenue of $23.09 billion, demonstrating changes of +17.3% and +8.05%, respectively, from the preceding year. It is also important to note the recent changes to analyst estimates for Booking Holdings. These recent revisions tend to reflect the evolving nature of short-term business trends. Consequently, upward revisions in estimates express analysts' positivity towards the company's business operations and its abili ...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenTable today launched Icons, a new, city-specific destination within the platform for diners to discover and book the hottest and most in-demand tables. Icons was designed to reflect the iconic status of these restaurants with enhanced branding and an elevated search experience. Icons does the heavy lifting for diners by curating each city's top hot spots and surfacing the soonest they can get a table. Icons is live in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, Los Angel ...