Lagging In Post-Market Activity: Expedia (EXPE)

Trade-Ideas LLC identified Expedia (EXPE) as a post-market laggard candidate
By TheStreet Wire ,

Trade-Ideas LLC identified

Expedia

(

EXPE

) as a post-market laggard candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Expedia as such a stock due to the following factors:

  • EXPE has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $490.9 million.
  • EXPE is down 2.1% today from today's close.

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More details on EXPE:

Expedia, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an online travel company in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Leisure and Egencia. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 0.8%. EXPE has a PE ratio of 2. Currently there are 12 analysts that rate Expedia a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 6 rate it a hold.

The average volume for Expedia has been 2.1 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Expedia has a market cap of $15.1 billion and is part of the services sector and leisure industry. The stock has a beta of 0.92 and a short float of 10.8% with 2.66 days to cover. Shares are up 49.9% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Thursday.

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TheStreetRatings.com

Analysis:

TheStreet Quant Ratings

rates Expedia as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, notable return on equity, reasonable valuation levels, expanding profit margins and solid stock price performance. We feel its strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.

Highlights from the ratings report include:

  • Investors have apparently begun to recognize positive factors similar to those we have mentioned in this report, including earnings growth. This has helped drive up the company's shares by a sharp 65.33% over the past year, a rise that has exceeded that of the S&P 500 Index. Regarding the stock's future course, although almost any stock can fall in a broad market decline, EXPE should continue to move higher despite the fact that it has already enjoyed a very nice gain in the past year.
  • EXPEDIA INC has improved earnings per share by 9.3% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company has demonstrated a pattern of positive earnings per share growth over the past two years. We feel that this trend should continue. During the past fiscal year, EXPEDIA INC increased its bottom line by earning $3.00 versus $1.66 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($4.11 versus $3.00).
  • The revenue growth significantly trails the industry average of 45.5%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues rose by 13.2%. Growth in the company's revenue appears to have helped boost the earnings per share.
  • The company's current return on equity greatly increased when compared to its ROE from the same quarter one year prior. This is a signal of significant strength within the corporation. Compared to other companies in the Internet & Catalog Retail industry and the overall market, EXPEDIA INC's return on equity significantly exceeds that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.

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