New Lifetime High Reached: Expedia (EXPE)
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Trade-Ideas LLC identified
(
) as a new lifetime high 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 $124.0 million.
- EXPE has traded 133,831 shares today.
- EXPE is trading at a new lifetime high.
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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 30.9. Currently there are 8 analysts that rate Expedia a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 9 rate it a hold.
The average volume for Expedia has been 2.2 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Expedia has a market cap of $10.5 billion and is part of the services sector and leisure industry. The stock has a beta of 0.19 and a short float of 12% with 9.28 days to cover. Shares are up 10.2% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Wednesday.
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Analysis:
rates Expedia as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, notable return on equity, reasonable valuation levels, expanding profit margins and good cash flow from operations. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- The revenue growth came in higher than the industry average of 1.8%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues rose by 17.7%. This growth in revenue does not appear to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, displayed by a decline in 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 exceeds that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
- The gross profit margin for EXPEDIA INC is currently very high, coming in at 79.76%. It has increased from the same quarter the previous year. Along with this, the net profit margin of 4.86% is above that of the industry average.
- Net operating cash flow has slightly increased to -$199.84 million or 5.82% when compared to the same quarter last year. Despite an increase in cash flow, EXPEDIA INC's average is still marginally south of the industry average growth rate of 8.39%.
- You can view the full Expedia Ratings Report.
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