| Company name | Priceline Group Inc |
| Stock ticker | PCLN |
| Live stock price | [stckqut]PCLN[/stckqut] |
| P/E compared to competitors | Fair |
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
| Employee productivity | Good |
| Sales growth | Good |
| EPS growth | Good |
| P/E growth | Fair |
| EBIT growth | Good |
ANALYSIS
| Confident Investor Rating | Good |
| Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $1884.84 |
| Target stock price (averages with growth) | $2031.84 |
| Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $922.78 |
| Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $1764.84 |
The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=pcln
The Priceline Group Inc. is a provider of online travel and travel related reservation and search services. The Company, through its online travel agent (OTA) services, connects consumers wishing to make travel reservations with providers of travel services across the world. The Company’s brands include Booking.com, KAYAK, agoda.com, rentalcars.com and OpenTable. The Company offers consumers 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 priceline.com brand also offers consumers reservations for rental cars, airline tickets, vacation packages and cruises. The Company offers rental car reservations through its Website rentalcars.com. The Company also provides an online price comparison service from various travel Websites through KAYAK. OpenTable provides its services to consumers and reservation management services to restaurants.
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: $1219.97
- Growth: 0.19
- Current EPS (TTM): $45.81
- P/E: 26
- Future EPS Calc: $109.31
- Future Stock Price Calc: $2842.29
- Target stock price: $1764.83
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