With 0.96 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.45 million shares. During the session, the Travel Services company that operates in wider Consumer Cyclical sector, reached to the highest price of $188.95 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $184.918. The 52-week range on EXPE shows that it touched its highest point at $192.34 and its lowest point at $107.25 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $193.31. EXPE paid its most recent dividend on 1583712000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1583712000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.84.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of EXPE was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 3.31%, but this was up by 3.10% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 24.78% while six-month performance rose 39.20%. The stock gained 26.92% in the past year, while it has gained 1.26% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for EXPE yields 7.76 with Next year EPS estimates of 14.17. For the next quarter, that number is 2.07. This implies an EPS growth rate of 23.18% for this year and 18.73% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 19.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 14.85%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 123.32 million EXPE shares are outstanding with a float of 121.76 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 5.59 million, which was 436.00000000000006 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Barry Diller as the firm’s Executive Chairman of the Board & Senior Executive, Ms. Julie P. Whalen CPA serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.98307997 of EXPE’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, EXPE reported revenue of $4060000000.0 and operating income of $860000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $1136000000.0 and diluted EPS was $5.04.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for EXPE since 19 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 10 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 9 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With EXPE analysts setting a high price target of 236.0 and a low target of 148.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 192.35648. Based on these targets, EXPE could surge 25.09% to reach the target high and fall by -21.56% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 1.95% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $12.94287 being high and $8.32501 being low. For EXPE, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $11.93573. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.75 and the low estimate is -$0.46. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.26.
