With 3.15 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 3.68 million shares. During the session, the Travel Services company that operates in wider Consumer Cyclical sector, reached to the highest price of $61.165 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $60.1. The 52-week range on TCOM shows that it touched its highest point at $77.18 and its lowest point at $38.23 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $74.85. TCOM paid its most recent dividend on 1213056000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1742169600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.13.
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 TCOM was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -4.28%, but this was down by -7.44% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -19.00% while six-month performance rose 29.17%. The stock gained 40.45% in the past year, while it has lost -11.45% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for TCOM yields 3.47 with Next year EPS estimates of 4.08. For the next quarter, that number is 0.75. This implies an EPS growth rate of -2.32% for this year and 15.46% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 9.14% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -24.77%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 651.11 million TCOM shares are outstanding with a float of 649.15 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-02-28, short shares totaled 12.35 million, which was 190.0 higher than short shares on 1738281600. In addition to Dr. Jianzhang Liang Ph.D. as the firm’s Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Ms. Jie Sun CPA serves as its CEO & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.42481998 of TCOM’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 2024-12-31, TCOM reported revenue of $15873000000.0 and operating income of $5006000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $7385000000.0 and diluted EPS was $9.93.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for TCOM since 23 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 20 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 3 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 TCOM analysts setting a high price target of 95.07346 and a low target of 51.65525, the average target price over the next 12 months is 73.85383. Based on these targets, TCOM could surge 56.37% to reach the target high and fall by -15.04% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 21.47% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $26.63582 being high and $24.76785 being low. For TCOM, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $25.73642. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $7.87 and the low estimate is $5.0. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $6.46.
