| Company name | Priceline Group 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) | $1790.33 |
| Target stock price (averages with growth) | $2362.88 |
| Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $1561.02 |
| Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $1531.5 |
The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=pcln
Priceline Group Inc, formerly Priceline Com Incorporated, incorporated on July 30, 1998, 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, the Company 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. During the year ended December 31, 2012, its international business (the majority of which is generated by Booking.com) represented approximately 82% of its gross bookings (an operating and statistical metric referring to the total dollar value, generally inclusive of all taxes and fees, of all travel services purchased by its customers), and approximately 92% of its consolidated operating income.
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Priceline Group Inc.
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How was this analysis of Priceline Group Inc calculated?
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In order to assist you in using the techniques of this book, the values that I used when calculating the Manual pricing above were:
Stock price at the time of the calculation: $1158.79
Growth: 0.17
Current EPS (TTM): $37.5
P/E: 30
Future EPS Calc: $82.21
Future Stock Price Calc: $2466.5
Target stock price: $1531.5
I hope that this makes you a better investor. [/s2If]