Booking Holdings Inc.

BKNG

Transportation Services

Mkt Cap

$129.6B

PE

27.01

Debt

$20.46B

Cash

$15.66B

EV

$134.4B

FCF

$6.772B

Market Cap

$129.6B

P/E Ratio

27.01

Debt

$20.46B

Cash

$15.66B

EV

$134.4B

FCF

$6.772B

Charts data: {"Earnings":[{"time":"2014-12-30","value":2421753000},{"time":"2015-12-30","value":2551360000},{"time":"2016-12-30","value":2134987000},{"time":"2017-12-30","value":2340765000},{"time":"2018-12-30","value":3998000000},{"time":"2019-12-30","value":4865000000},{"time":"2020-12-30","value":59000000},{"time":"2021-12-30","value":1165000000},{"time":"2022-12-30","value":3058000000},{"time":"2023-12-30","value":4289000000}],"Sales":[{"time":"2014-12-30","value":8441971000},{"time":"2015-12-30","value":9223987000},{"time":"2016-12-30","value":10743000000},{"time":"2017-12-30","value":12681000000},{"time":"2018-12-30","value":14527000000},{"time":"2019-12-30","value":15066000000},{"time":"2020-12-30","value":6796000000},{"time":"2021-12-30","value":10958000000},{"time":"2022-12-30","value":17090000000},{"time":"2023-12-30","value":21365000000}],"Net Margins":[{"time":"2014-12-30","value":0.2868705661272705},{"time":"2015-12-30","value":0.2766005632922076},{"time":"2016-12-30","value":0.1987328492972168},{"time":"2017-12-30","value":0.18458836053938965},{"time":"2018-12-30","value":0.27521167481241826},{"time":"2019-12-30","value":0.32291251825302003},{"time":"2020-12-30","value":0.008681577398469689},{"time":"2021-12-30","value":0.10631502098923161},{"time":"2022-12-30","value":0.1789350497366881},{"time":"2023-12-30","value":0.2007488883688275}],"Assets":[{"time":"2014-12-30","value":14940563000},{"time":"2015-12-30","value":17420575000},{"time":"2016-12-30","value":19838973000},{"time":"2017-12-30","value":25451263000},{"time":"2018-12-30","value":22687000000},{"time":"2019-12-30","value":21402000000},{"time":"2020-12-30","value":21874000000},{"time":"2021-12-30","value":23641000000},{"time":"2022-12-30","value":25361000000},{"time":"2023-12-30","value":24342000000}],"Stockholders Equity":[{"time":"2014-12-30","value":8566694000},{"time":"2015-12-30","value":8795469000},{"time":"2016-12-30","value":9820142000},{"time":"2017-12-30","value":11260598000},{"time":"2018-12-30","value":8785000000},{"time":"2019-12-30","value":5933000000},{"time":"2020-12-30","value":4893000000},{"time":"2021-12-30","value":6178000000},{"time":"2022-12-30","value":2782000000},{"time":"2023-12-30","value":-2744000000}],"ROE":[{"time":"2014-12-30","value":0.282694000742877},{"time":"2015-12-30","value":0.29007662922807187},{"time":"2016-12-30","value":0.21740897433051376},{"time":"2017-12-30","value":0.20787217517222442},{"time":"2018-12-30","value":0.45509391007398975},{"time":"2019-12-30","value":0.8199898870723075},{"time":"2020-12-30","value":0.012058042100960556},{"time":"2021-12-30","value":0.18857235351246357},{"time":"2022-12-30","value":1.0992092020129403},{"time":"2023-12-30","value":-1.5630466472303206}],"ROA":[{"time":"2014-12-30","value":0.2060030134071922},{"time":"2015-12-30","value":0.18877384931324023},{"time":"2016-12-30","value":0.14724240009802927},{"time":"2017-12-30","value":0.1827924217356129},{"time":"2018-12-30","value":0.23542116630669546},{"time":"2019-12-30","value":0.29081394262218485},{"time":"2020-12-30","value":0.04219621468409984},{"time":"2021-12-30","value":0.10557929021614991},{"time":"2022-12-30","value":0.201175032530263},{"time":"2023-12-30","value":0.23970914468819324}]}

Booking Holdings Inc. provides travel and restaurant online reservation and related services worldwide. The company operates Booking.com, which offers online accommodation reservations; Rentalcars.com that provides online rental car reservation services; and Priceline, which offer online travel reservation services, and consumers hotel, flight, and rental car reservation services, as well as vacation packages, cruises, and hotel distribution services. It also operates Agoda that provides online accommodation reservation services, as well as flight, ground transportation and activities reservation services. In addition, the company operates KAYAK, an online meta-search service that allows consumers to search and compare travel itineraries and prices, comprising airline ticket, accommodation reservation, and rental car reservation information; and OpenTable for booking online restaurant reservations. Further, it offers travel-related insurance products, and restaurant management services to consumers, travel service providers, and restaurants; and advertising services. The company was formerly known as The Priceline Group Inc. and changed its name to Booking Holdings Inc. in February 2018. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut.

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DCF

Discounted Cash Flow Valuation of Booking Holdings Inc.

Calculate

Growth Years

Growth

Start

End

Discount

Start

End

Multiple

g\r	+10%	+11%	+12%	+13%	+14%
0%	10	9	8	8	7
+1%	11	10	9	8	8
+2%	13	11	10	9	8
+3%	14	13	11	10	9
+4%	17	14	12	11	10

Years	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	TV
FCF	$6.772B	$7.147B	$7.538B	$7.946B	$8.372B	$8.815B	$9.276B	$9.757B	$10.26B	$10.78B	$11.31B	$113.1B
DCF		$6.215B	$5.7B	$5.225B	$4.786B	$4.383B	$4.01B	$3.668B	$3.353B	$3.063B	$2.797B	$27.97B
Value	$71.16B

Chart P/E ratio

In the chart Earnings are multiplied by this value.

Earnings Growth -3%

Earnings Stability 0.79%

Competitiveness and MOAT

High margins render the company resilient under dire circumstances, hence able to drive competitors out or acquire them. ROE and ROA measure the average flow generated by each invested dollar. Their marginal value is a forecast of future growth, and it is considered by Buffett and Munger the most important single indicator.

The Net Margin is high enough to offer a good protection on the profits in case of higher costs or higher interests. Furthermore higher margins reduce earnings’ volatility.

Over time the ROA has been decreasing indicating a lower marginal ROA with respect to the calculated one, this could impede growth.

Years	12-2015	12-2016	12-2017	12-2018	12-2019	12-2020	12-2021	12-2022	12-2023	TTM
Net Margin	28%	20%	18%	28%	32%	0.87%	11%	18%	20%	22%
ROA	19%	15%	18%	24%	29%	4.2%	11%	20%	24%	23%
ROE	29%	22%	21%	46%	82%	1.2%	19%	110%	-160%	-120%

What is the average Net Margin?

The average Net Margin over the past 5 years is +18.21%.

What is the trend of Net Margin?

The trend of Net Margin over the past 5 years is -2.02%.

What is the average Return on Assets (ROA)?

The average ROA over the past 5 years is +18.58%.

What is the trend of Return on Assets (ROA)?

The trend of ROA over the past 5 years is -0.53%.

What is the average Return on Equity (ROE)?

The average ROE over the past 5 years is +16.86%.

What is the trend of Return on Equity (ROE)?

The trend of ROE over the past 5 years is -25.93%.

Safety & Stabiliy

Being debt the number one cause of investment losses and company death, the ratio Debt/FCF is of utmost importance to guarantee safety. On the other hand the Graham’s stability measures the drawdown of earnings, hence indicating the reliability of the flow generated by the company.

Under the assumption that FCF does not diminish and debt does not increase, the current years to repay the debt are acceptable.

The Graham’s stability indicate a relevant drawdown, consider checking when it has occured and why.

Years	12-2015	12-2016	12-2017	12-2018	12-2019	12-2020	12-2021	12-2022	12-2023	TTM
Debt FCF	2.22	1.70	2.06	1.79	1.93	-60.63	4.34	2.11	2.32	3.02
Debt Equity	0.74	0.65	0.80	1.00	1.47	2.49	1.77	4.69	-5.91	-5.05
MIN
Graham Stability	-	-	99%	100%	100%	1.6%	39%	100%	100%	1.6%

What is the Debt/FCF?

The Debt/FCF trailing twelve month is 3.02.

What is the trend of Debt/FCF?

The trend of Debt/FCF over the past 5 years is 1.95.

What is the Graham’s Stability?

Graham’s Stability measure stands at 0.02.

Growth

Growth can be dangerous when forecasting, simply projecting the current growth is in general wrong. A company passes through multiple phases, from being young and unprofitable, to the first periods of profitability and high growth, until it arrives at a period of regime with limited growth. Identifying in which phase the company is in may help forecasting.

Earnings growth has been increasing in past years.

Years	12-2016	12-2018	12-2020	12-2022	Trend
Revenue	10%	8%	46%	25%	3.3%
Net Income	10%	1.4%	320%	40%	71%
Stockholders Equity	-	-	-	-	-5.2%
FCF	9.3%	7.4%	-	13%	8%

What is the 5 year Revenue CAGR?

The Revenue CAGR over the past 5 years is +8.02%.

What is the trend of Revenue growth?

The trend of Revenue growth rate over the past 5 years is +3.31%.

What is the 5 year Earnings CAGR?

The Earnings CAGR over the past 5 years is +1.42%.

What is the trend of Earnings growth?

The trend of Earnings growth rate over the past 5 years is +70.61%.

What is the 5 year Equity CAGR?

The Equity CAGR over the past 5 years is -.

What is the trend of Equity growth?

The trend of Equity growth rate over the past 5 years is -5.21%.

What is the 5 year FCF CAGR?

The FCF CAGR over the past 5 years is +7.41%.

What is the trend of FCF growth?

The trend of FCF growth rate over the past 5 years is +8.01%.