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ADBE Adobe Systems Incorporated $187.1100 Strong Buy or Hold, but there are some concerns
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ALGN Align Technology, Inc. $248.3100 Strong Buy or Hold
ALXN Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $121.4600 Very Concerned, may need to wait
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FB Facebook Inc $187.8400 Strong Buy or Hold
GILD Gilead Sciences, Inc. $78.7100 Strong Buy or Hold
GOOGL Alphabet Inc $1110.1400 Strong Buy or Hold
GTN Gray Television, Inc. $16.6000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
GWR Genesee & Wyoming Inc $82.3800 Strong Buy or Hold
HDSN Hudson Technologies, Inc. $6.2900 Strong Buy or Hold
HSKA Heska Corp $78.8400 Some Concerns, may need to wait
HZO MarineMax Inc $19.0500 Some Concerns, may need to wait
IBP Installed Building Products Inc $72.9500 Very Concerned, may need to wait
ILMN Illumina, Inc. $242.5900 Strong Buy or Hold, but there are some concerns
LGIH LGI Homes Inc $73.6500 Very Concerned, may need to wait
LRCX Lam Research Corporation $191.6600 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
LULU Lululemon Athletica inc. $78.8600 Very Concerned, may need to wait
MCK McKesson Corporation $160.6700 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
MEI Methode Electronics Inc. $40.9500 Very Concerned, may need to wait
MIDD Middleby Corp $131.5800 Very Concerned, may need to wait
MKTX MarketAxess Holdings Inc. $206.3800 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
MRK Merck & Co., Inc. $57.3000 Strong Buy or Hold
MU Micron Technology, Inc. $43.2900 Very Concerned, may need to wait
NFLX Netflix, Inc. $212.5200 Strong Buy or Hold, but there are some concerns
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation $223.6800 Strong Buy or Hold, but there are some concerns
PCLN Priceline Group Inc $1872.9100 Strong Buy or Hold
REGN Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc $366.4600 Very Concerned, may need to wait
SBUX Starbucks Corporation $59.8200 Strong Buy or Hold
SCHW Charles Schwab Corp $53.5600 Strong Buy or Hold, but there are some concerns
STZ Constellation Brands, Inc. $219.3600 Very Concerned, may need to wait
SUI Sun Communities Inc $88.6300 Very Concerned, may need to wait
SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc $98.6000 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
TGS Transportadora de Gas del Sur SA (ADR) $22.0300 Very Concerned, may need to wait
THRM Gentherm Inc $32.0500 Very Concerned, may need to wait
TMO Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. $206.2900 Strong Buy or Hold, but there are some concerns
TMUS T-Mobile US Inc $63.8900 Very Concerned, may need to wait
TNET TriNet Group Inc $41.4800 Very Concerned, may need to wait
ULTA Ulta Beauty Inc $230.4500 Very Concerned, may need to wait

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 Poor
EBIT growth Good

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $1711.92
Target stock price (averages with growth) $2373.05
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $1961.86
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $1874.36

 

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

The Priceline Group Inc. is a provider of travel and restaurant online reservation and related services. The Company, through its online travel companies (OTCs), connects consumers wishing to make travel reservations with providers of travel services across the world. It offers consumers an array of accommodation reservations (including hotels, bed and breakfasts, hostels, apartments, vacation rentals and other properties) through its Booking.com, priceline.com and agoda.com brands. Its other brands include KAYAK, Rentalcars.com and OpenTable, Inc. (OpenTable). As of December 31, 2016, Booking.com offered accommodation reservation services for over 1,115,000 properties in over 220 countries and territories on its various Websites and in over 40 languages, which included over 568,000 vacation rental properties (updated property counts were available on the Booking.com Website).

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Priceline Group Inc as long as the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable.

If you would like to understand how to evaluate companies like I do on this site, please read my book, The Confident Investor. You can review the best companies that I have found (and I probably invest my own money in most of these companies) in my Watch List.

How was this analysis of Priceline Group Inc calculated?

For owners of my book, “The Confident Investor” I offer the following analysis (you must be logged in to this site as a book owner in order to see the following analysis). If you have registered and cannot see the balance of this article, make sure you are logged in and refresh your browser.
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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: $1737.74
  • Growth: 0.12
  • Current EPS (TTM): $71.37
  • P/E: 24
  • Future EPS Calc: $125.77
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $3018.67
  • Target stock price: $1874.36

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ABMD ABIOMED, Inc. $193.8900 Possible Buy or Hold, but some concerns
ADS Alliance Data Systems Corporation $244.8500 Strong Buy or Hold
ALGN Align Technology, Inc. $235.0500 Very Concerned, may need to wait
ALXN Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $115.7200 Strong Buy or Hold
AMAT Applied Materials, Inc. $52.9600 Possible Buy or Hold, but some concerns
AMZN Amazon $1187.3800 Strong Buy or Hold
AYI Acuity Brands, Inc. $171.8600 Strong Buy or Hold
BABA Alibaba Group Holding Ltd $171.2800 Very Concerned, may need to wait
BWLD Buffalo Wild Wings $156.6000 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
CBPO China Biologic Products Inc $77.8300 Some Concerns, may need to wait
COF Capital One Financial Corp. $98.7400 Strong Buy or Hold
CRUS Cirrus Logic, Inc. $52.1200 Possible Buy or Hold, but some concerns
CVCO Cavco Industries, Inc. $146.8000 Some Concerns, may need to wait
DPZ Domino’s Pizza, Inc. $187.0600 Strong Buy or Hold
EW Edwards Lifesciences Corp $114.3200 Very Concerned, may need to wait
EXR Extra Space Storage, Inc. $86.2000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
FB Facebook Inc $179.5100 Strong Buy or Hold
GOOGL Alphabet Inc $1079.7800 Strong Buy or Hold
GTN Gray Television, Inc. $16.8000 Strong Buy or Hold
GWR Genesee & Wyoming Inc $78.5600 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
HDSN Hudson Technologies, Inc. $5.7000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
HOG Harley-Davidson Inc $51.1900 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
HSKA Heska Corp $80.2100 Some Concerns, may need to wait
HZO MarineMax Inc $20.6000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
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NFLX Netflix, Inc. $187.0200 Very Concerned, may need to wait
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation $196.1100 Possible Buy or Hold, but some concerns
PCLN Priceline Group Inc $1780.6200 Strong Buy or Hold
REGN Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc $385.7200 Possible Buy or Hold, but some concerns
SAM Boston Beer Company Inc $186.7500 Very Concerned, may need to wait
SBUX Starbucks Corporation $58.0100 Very Concerned, may need to wait
STZ Constellation Brands, Inc. $223.2300 Strong Buy or Hold
SUI Sun Communities Inc $92.1600 Very Concerned, may need to wait
SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc $95.6800 Some Concerns, may need to wait
THRM Gentherm Inc $32.9500 Some Concerns, may need to wait
TMO Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. $193.8900 Strong Buy or Hold
TRN Trinity Industries Inc $36.8900 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
UA Under Armour Inc $14.1000 Strong Buy or Hold, but there are some concerns
ULTA Ulta Beauty Inc $227.4700 Strong Buy or Hold

Symbol Stock Price change today
AYI Acuity Brands, Inc. 2.0914%
ALGN Align Technology, Inc. 1.7117%
MNST Monster Beverage Corporation 1.7005%
NFLX Netflix, Inc. 1.5936%
PCLN Priceline Group Inc 1.4671%
EW Edwards Lifesciences Corp 1.3385%
AMAT Applied Materials, Inc. 1.1888%
TMO Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 1.0903%
EXR Extra Space Storage, Inc. 1.0116%
HDSN Hudson Technologies, Inc. 0.9804%
STZ Constellation Brands, Inc. 0.9558%
SUI Sun Communities Inc 0.8105%
TRN Trinity Industries Inc 0.706%
MEI Methode Electronics Inc. 0.5591%
HSKA Heska Corp 0.4462%
CBPO China Biologic Products Inc 0.4238%
AMZN Amazon 0.3394%
MCK McKesson Corporation 0.3197%
THRM Gentherm Inc 0.2042%
FB Facebook Inc 0.1737%
IDXX IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. 0.0745%
ABMD ABIOMED, Inc. -0.041%
MET Metlife Inc -0.0766%
SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc -0.0996%
DPZ Domino’s Pizza, Inc. -0.1731%
COF Capital One Financial Corp. -0.2295%
GOOGL Alphabet Inc -0.2825%
ADS Alliance Data Systems Corporation -0.3238%
AAPL Apple Inc. -0.4008%
LULU Lululemon Athletica inc. -0.4162%
MRK Merck & Co., Inc. -0.4382%
CVCO Cavco Industries, Inc. -0.5504%
MIDD Middleby Corp -0.6191%
SBUX Starbucks Corporation -0.7013%
LNCE Snyder’s-Lance Inc -0.7046%
HOG Harley-Davidson Inc -0.8879%
BABA Alibaba Group Holding Ltd -1.0032%
BWLD Buffalo Wild Wings -1.3462%
ULTA Ulta Beauty Inc -1.3598%
CRUS Cirrus Logic, Inc. -1.3759%
ALXN Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. -1.4934%
GWR Genesee & Wyoming Inc -1.6072%
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation -1.6239%
SAM Boston Beer Company Inc -1.8141%
GTN Gray Television, Inc. -1.9481%
HZO MarineMax Inc -2.4631%
REGN Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc -2.6994%
UA Under Armour Inc -3.6939%

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ADS Alliance Data Systems Corporation $228.7700 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
ALGN Align Technology, Inc. $193.3700 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
ALXN Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $140.8400 Very Concerned, may need to wait
AMAT Applied Materials, Inc. $55.0400 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
AMZN Amazon $1006.3400 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
AYI Acuity Brands, Inc. $164.8900 Very Concerned, may need to wait
BABA Alibaba Group Holding Ltd $179.5600 Very Concerned, may need to wait
BWLD Buffalo Wild Wings $102.3500 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
CBPO China Biologic Products Inc $81.0600 Very Concerned, may need to wait
COF Capital One Financial Corp. $86.8500 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
CRUS Cirrus Logic, Inc. $53.8200 Very Concerned, may need to wait
CVCO Cavco Industries, Inc. $152.3000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
DPZ Domino’s Pizza, Inc. $193.1900 Very Concerned, may need to wait
EW Edwards Lifesciences Corp $108.5200 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
EXR Extra Space Storage, Inc. $81.8700 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
FB Facebook Inc $174.5200 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
GOOGL Alphabet Inc $1009.3500 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
GTN Gray Television, Inc. $15.4000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
GWR Genesee & Wyoming Inc $71.3900 Very Concerned, may need to wait
HDSN Hudson Technologies, Inc. $6.2100 Very Concerned, may need to wait
HOG Harley-Davidson Inc $46.5700 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
HSKA Heska Corp $97.1000 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
HZO MarineMax Inc $16.4000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
IDXX IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. $158.5500 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
LNCE Snyder’s-Lance Inc $38.9600 Very Concerned, may need to wait
LULU Lululemon Athletica inc. $58.2000 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
MCK McKesson Corporation $146.6100 Very Concerned, may need to wait
MEI Methode Electronics Inc. $45.0000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
MET Metlife Inc $52.8700 Very Concerned, may need to wait
MIDD Middleby Corp $122.6500 Very Concerned, may need to wait
MNST Monster Beverage Corporation $56.2200 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
MRK Merck & Co., Inc. $63.3400 Very Concerned, may need to wait
NFLX Netflix, Inc. $202.6800 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation $197.9300 Strong Buy or Hold, but there are some concerns
PCLN Priceline Group Inc $1935.5500 Strong Buy or Hold
REGN Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc $445.6800 Very Concerned, may need to wait
SAM Boston Beer Company Inc $176.7000 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
SBUX Starbucks Corporation $54.9100 Very Concerned, may need to wait
STZ Constellation Brands, Inc. $210.4500 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
SUI Sun Communities Inc $88.0000 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc $106.9800 Concerned, but watch close as good things may happen soon
THRM Gentherm Inc $37.2000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
TMO Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. $191.2800 Very Concerned, may need to wait
TRN Trinity Industries Inc $34.1000 Very Concerned, may need to wait
UA Under Armour Inc $14.9800 Very Concerned, may need to wait
ULTA Ulta Beauty Inc $193.7000 Very Concerned, may need to wait