Priceline Group Inc ($PCLN) Possible Buy to $1884 Confident Investor Rating: Good
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.
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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: $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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