Priceline.com Inc ($PCLN) Possible Buy to $1172 Confident Investor Rating: Good

Company name Priceline.com Inc
Stock ticker PCLN
Live stock price [stckqut]PCLN[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Good

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $1260.54
Target stock price (averages with growth) $1726.08
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $1181.28
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $1249.82

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=pcln

Priceline Com Incorporated, is an online travel company that offers its customers hotel room reservations at over 295,000 hotels worldwide through the Booking.com, priceline.com and Agoda brands. In the United States, it also offers its customers reservations for car rentals, airline tickets, vacation packages, destination services and cruises through the priceline.com brand. It offers car rental reservations worldwide through rentalcars.com. As of December 31, 2012, its international business (the majority of which is generated by Booking.com) represented approximately 82% of its gross bookings, and approximately 92% of its consolidated operating income. In 2012, the Company launched Express Deals, a merchant semi-opaque price-disclosed hotel reservation service at priceline.com, which allows customers to see the price of the reservation prior to purchase but not the identity of the hotel. On May 2013, the Company acquired Kayak Software Corp.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock. Very few companies are run well enough that they have green in every metric. Priceline is a stock to consider!

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